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{{quote|''Isaac Asimov had writer's block once. It was the worst ten minutes of his life.''|'''[[Harlan Ellison]]''' <ref>Or at least attributed to him.</ref>}}

 

 

Dr. Asimov was a professor of biochemistry, member of [[Useful Notes/Mensa|Mensa]], and one of the most prolific writers of science fiction and fact in history, with novels, short stories, scholarly articles, books about writing itself, a book of facts and at least two joke books to his credit. This is to the point where he wrote a book in every Dewey Decimal System category except for Philosophy. In addition, he was a [[Promoted Fanboy]]; he started reading the pulp sci-fi magazines sold in his family's candy stores when he was young, began writing his own stories when he was eleven, and managed to get published when he was nineteen.

 

# A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

# A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]:

** An Asimov short story was the trope namer. One editorial in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' is devoted to just how many ways people screwed up his name. For some reason, "Asminov" was the most common mangling of his surname.

* [[Starfish Aliens]]: The inhabitants of the positronic opposite world in ''The Gods Themselves''.

* [[The Summation]]