In particular, his great Foundation Trilogy (1941 - 1950) consists of a series of long short stories, each of which has affinities to the formal detective story. See here for an appreciation of Asimov's detective fiction.Įven before his official entry into the mystery scene in The Caves Of Steel (1953), Isaac Asimov's science fiction books often exhibited mystery technique. Four more SF mysteries featuring the agoraphobic Professor Wendell Urth are included in Asimov's Mysteries.
The sixth Black Widower is the waiter Henry, whi invariably spots the solution to the problem. He wrote several mystery novels, including some science-fiction based mysteries featuring a detective called Elijah Bailey and a robot called Daneel Olivaw, and five volumes of short-short mystery stories featuring the 'Black Widowers', an all-male club which meets weekly and discusses a mystery or puzzle proposed by a guest. His first wife was Gertrude Blugerman his second was writer and psychiatrist JO Jepson. He spent two years in the Army and completed a PhD in chemistry at Columbia in 1948. Asimov was born in Petrovichi in Russia and moved to America at the age of three, where his parents ran a candy store in Brooklyn.
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was an American Jewish author and biochemist, known mainly for science fiction and for his works of popular science.
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