His novella The Positronic Man inspired the box office flop Bicentennial Man (1999). The Will Smith vehicle I, Robot (2004) bears little semblance to Asimov's original novel, and is subject to intense criticism from Asimov fans. AdaptationsĪsimov himself was "special science consultant" on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but a surprisingly small number of his novels and stories have been filmed. Greg Bear and Patricia Anthony will also appeal. If you're sure you've finished the Asimov oeuvre (including his guides to Shakespeare, science, and the Bible), his sci-fi stablemates, Robert A. Karel Capek's RUR (1920, play 1938, TV) coined the term "robot". I, Robot: the first classics of the Robot series.
Accepted as one of the greatest of genre writers, and provided for his following entirely new, vast and coherent mental universes to inhabit. He has works in every major category of the Dewey Decimal System except Philosophy. He was never seen as more than a genre writer, and an embarrassingly prolific one, at that - Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 volumes and an estimated 90,000 letters or postcards. Though in his books he travelled to the stars, he refused to fly in planes. Served in US army became a chemistry professor.
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