About the book
Isaac Asimov, the writer nicknamed the Great Explainer, looks back on a long life in a memoir arranged by topic and rich in anecdote. He recalls the start of his writing career during the golden age of pulp fiction, and the friends he made among science fiction writers, including Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, John W. Campbell, Jr. and Robert Silverberg. He shares his views on religion and politics, love and divorce, Hollywood, fame and mortality. Though he wrote of travel to the stars, he refused to fly in airplanes. Asimov wrote more than 470 books before his death in 1992 at seventy-two.
Bobby Voicu, founder of The CEO Library, said it revealed a genuinely happy man who did what he loved all his life, and he learned that Asimov almost stopped writing novels for 20 years and took real pleasure in writing mystery short stories.
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Bobby Voicu (Founder/the CEO Library)
In I, Asimov I’ve discovered a genuine happy person, someone that did what he loved his entire life. I discovered that one of the biggest authors of Science Fiction actually stopped writing fiction novels almost completely for 20 years. I discovered that he enjoyed writing mystery short stories a lot. And this shouldn’t surprise me since most of the books in his SF series are, actually, mysteries. Especially the Robots ones.
His autobiography reads like the archive of a blog, with anecdotes and short stories of the author’s life. It made me smile so often, I didn’t believe it. I was reading in bed and I would read out loud to my fiancée something that made me laugh loudly.
Besides the laughs, I also appreciated the power of Asimov’s convictions. I’m taking example, as well, since sometimes I forget to support my opinions as strongly as I should. If you enjoyed Asimov's books, you're gonna love this one.
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- My Rediscovery of Isaac Asimov: I, Asimov