By the time of his death, the author was dealing with heart and kidney failure. The author’s death was believed to have resulted from bypass surgery years earlier during which a blood transfusion had given him AIDs. Before his death in 1992 at the age of 72, the author had penned nearly five hundred books within which he experimented with many genres. The author wrote on every topic, from biology to astronomy to religion.

Sometimes it is difficult to pin Isaac Asimov’s interests down. Isaac was beginning to see the impact his work could have as a foreteller of the future of mankind, and readers seemed to appreciate him for this, which is why they devoured Foundation, his next work of fiction published in 1951, not to mention all the books that came after. The collection of short stories explored the relationship that might exist between humans and machines and it gave birth to Isaac’s famous Laws of Robotics. Though it wasn’t until I, Robot came into being that Isaac Asimov finally found his stride. While his first short story (Marooned Off Vesta) came out in Amazing Stories as early as 1938, it wasn’t until 1950 that the author’s first full Science fiction novel (Pebble in the Sky) was finally published. Isaac Asimov was a storyteller before anything else, and he enjoyed writing stories for the general reader. Of course, that scholarly desire was secondary in comparison to his love for writing. He also yearned to pass what he knew on to the next generation. Isaac Asimov had a passion for learning and understanding the science of things. With his science degree, there was little surprise when Isaac joined the Boston University School of Medicine as a Biochemistry Associate professor. By fifteen, Isaac was on his way to Columbia University from where he eventually earned a Science Degree, not to mention a Masters and a Ph.D. Isaac Asimov was a very intelligent child, teaching himself how to read and quickly beginning to master the basics of Yiddish by the time he was five. His parents, Anna Rachel Berman and Judah Ozimov, eventually moved to the United States, finding a home Brooklyn.

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