Isaac Asimov: Contemporary American Mythmaker
Isaac Asimov was the twentieth century's most popular and prolific science fiction writer. He was predominantly praised for the variety of his writing. Asimov produced hundreds of books on every conceivable aspect of sci-fi, from short stories about robots to longer novels about planetary settlements, from introductory guides to genetics to scholarly tracts on biochemistry. He also published an autobiography, a short history of biology, historical studies of Roman and Egyptian culture, a guide to Shakespeare, an analysis of Milton's Paradise Lost, a two-volume examination of the Bible (plus a supplement, Animals of the Bible), three collections of rude limericks, several books of essays, several volumes of American history, an academic edition of Gulliver's Travels, a handful of quiz books, a television play called Unseen World and an annotated guide to the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He once explained this by saying: "I never had a......
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