Isaac Asimov

Jeff Lemire on ‘street-level’ Green Arrow, superhero inspiration

2013-02-24 15:03:13

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Jewish legend sets stage for superheroes in ‘The Thirty Six’

2012-10-05 15:02:41

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Paul Kurtz dies at 86; secular humanist philosopher

2012-10-28 00:00:00

Philosopher Paul Kurtz was called many unflattering names during his long career, including "Satanic free-thinker" and "dangerous corrupter of young minds." But the name some of his critics considered most damning was the one he most prized. They called...

Goldberg: The false modesty of 'nerds'

2012-05-01 00:00:00

Washington is full of nerds. I know. I speak nerd, not fluently mind you, at least not anymore. But I certainly know more than a few phrases memorized from a Berlitz nerd-to-English phrase book. I can talk Dungeons & Dragons (both D&D and AD&D). I know...

Book review: 'While Mortals Sleep' by Kurt Vonnegut

2011-01-30 00:00:00

While Mortals Sleep Unpublished Short Fiction Kurt Vonnegut, foreword by Dave Eggers Delacorte: 272 pp., $27 It was in the 1950s that Kurt Vonnegut, then in his early 30s, quit his job as a publicity man for the research department of General Electric...

PASSINGS: Glenn Shadix, Lucius Walker, LeRoy A. Beavers Jr., Mike Edwards, Larry Ashmead, Corneille

2010-09-09 00:00:00

Glenn Shadix Character actor worked with Tim Burton Glenn Shadix, 58, a character actor best remembered for his portrayal of the portly, pretentious interior designer Otho in director Tim Burton's 1988 ghost comedy "Beetlejuice," died Tuesday at his...

Astral Weeks: A sci-fi master's beginnings

2010-12-10 14:30:00

"I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, "because I am not sure which policy it fits the better." The former magazine published science fiction,...

Frank Herbert's 'Dune' holds timely - and timeless - appeal

2010-04-18 00:00:00

Half a century ago, a middle-aged newspaperman with a few obscure books to his name sat down to pursue a pet obsession based on a story that had never sold. The ensuing 1965 novel -- in which his agent had no confidence -- sagged at first. But within a...

Kim Stanley Robinson maps the future's gray areas

2010-02-21 00:00:00

In science fiction, there's dystopia and there's utopia. There are the dark wizards of apocalypse, terrifying us with visions of humanity's grim comeuppance. And the starry-eyed fantasists, insisting how much better the future will be than the messy,...

Isaac Asimov was born 90 years ago today

2010-01-02 16:33:21

'Android Karenina' writer says Tolstoy might not like remake: 'He seems to have taken himself very seriously.'

2010-06-29 16:34:04

Who do you write like?

2010-07-13 16:34:45

H.P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, Ambrose Bierce, Saki, and many more can be found in "The Big Book of Ghost Stories" -- the collection is a frightening 848 pages.

2012-10-17 10:43:43

American author of more than 400 books on a broad range of subjects. He is best known for his science fiction books.

2012-08-23 07:07:30

The novella "The Martian Way" by Isaac Asimov was originally published in the magazine Galaxy Science Fiction in 1952. While on the surface the story is about terraforming Mars, it is in fact a critique of then-rampant McCarthyism.

2012-08-06 13:02:18