Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) was among the most influential and prolific writers of the twentieth century, publishing or editing some five hundred books. In science fiction he gave us the Three Laws of Robotics, the robot stories collected in I, Robot, and the galaxy-spanning Foundation series (winner of a one-time Hugo for ‘Best All-Time Series’). A biochemist by training, he was also a peerless science populariser. With Heinlein and Clarke, he formed the genre’s ‘Big Three’.