Asimov on science fiction [55 essays]
Collection of short essays dealing with various aspects of science fiction. Many of the essays are (slightly edited versions of) editorials from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. 

My Own View
Extraordinary Voyages
The Name of Our Field
The Universe of Science Fiction
Adventure!
Hints
By No Means Vulgar
Learning Device
It's a Funny Thing
The Mosaic and the Plate Glass
The Scientist As Villain
The Vocabulary of Science Fiction
Try to Write!
How Easy to See the Future!
The Dreams of Science Fiction
The Prescientific Universe
Science Fiction and Society
Science Fiction, 1938
How Science Fiction Came to Be Big Business
The Boom in Science Fiction
Golden Age Ahead
Beyond Our Brain
The Myth of the Machine
Science Fiction from the Soviet Union
More Science Fiction from the Soviet Union
The First Science Fiction Novel
The First Science Fiction Writer
The Hole in the Middle
The Science Fiction Breakthrough
Big, Big, Big
The Campbell Touch
Reminiscences of Peg
Horace
The Second Nova
Ray Bradbury
Arthur C. Clarke
The Dean of Science Fiction
The Brotherhood of Science Fiction
Our Conventions
The Hugo
Anniversaries
The Letter Column
The Articles of Science Fiction
Rejection Slips
What Makes Good Science Fiction?
1984
The Ring of Evil
The Answer to Star Wars?
Speculative Fiction
The Reluctant Critic
There's Nothing Like a Good Foundation
The Wendell Urth Series
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
Hollywood and I
The Prolific Writer
Science fiction, History and criticism, Science fiction, history and criticism
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.