Opus 200
Excerpt from The Gods Themselves
Excerpt from ABCs of Space
Excerpt from How Did We Find Out About Comets?
Excerpt from Comets and Meteors
Excerpt from Alpha Centauri, the Nearest Star
Excerpt from The Collapsing Universe
"The Bicentennial Man"
Excerpt from How Did We Find Out About Numbers?
Excerpt from "Skewered!"
Excerpt from Light
Excerpt from Please Explain
Excerpt from Worlds Within Worlds
"Good Taste"
Excerpt from How Did We Find Out About Germs?
Excerpt from The Ends of the Earth
Excerpt from More Words of Science
Excerpt from The Land of Canaan
Excerpt from The Shaping of France
Excerpt from The Golden Door
Excerpt from Eyes on the Universe
"The Dream"
"Lost in Non-Translation"
"Light Verse"
"The Monsters We Have Lived With"
Excerpt from Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor
Excerpt from The Sensuous Dirty Old Man
Excerpt from Lecherous Limericks
Excerpt from More Lecherous Limericks
Excerpt from Still More Lecherous Limericks
Excerpt from Earth: Our Crowded Spaceship
Excerpt from Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
Excerpt from Asimov's Annotated Don Juan
Excerpt from Asimov's Annotated Paradise Lost
Excerpt from Familiar Poems Annotated
Excerpt from Asimov's Sherlockian Limericks
Excerpt from Tales of the Black Widowers
"Earthset and Evening Star"
"The Thirteenth Day of Christmas"
Excerpt from Murder at the ABA
Excerpt from Before the Golden Age
"Little Brothers"
"My Second Hundred Books"
Science, Fiction, science fiction, general, Miscellanea
Isaac Asimov
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers.  Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2.  His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old.  He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942.  During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station.  After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948.  He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46402W), was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards.