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* [[Clarke's Third Law]]: lots of things that are just plain impossible today, so impossible that they could [[Epileptic Trees|in fact just]] [[Wild Mass Guessing|be magical]].
* [[The Commandments]]: The Laws of Robotics.
* [[Cosmic Egg]]: Used as fuel in ''The Gods Themselves''.
* [[Defictionalization]]: U.S. Robotics, a maker of dialup modems, derived its name from Asimov's U.S. Robots & Mechanical Men.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]:
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* [[Feghoot]]: Asimov wrote more than one short story solely so he could unleash some hideous pun at the end. The most blatant example would be "[[Shaggy Dog Story|Shah Guido G.]]"; see Time Travel below for another.
* [[Feudal Future]]
* [[Fiction as Cover
* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|The ending of ''The Last Question''}}.
* [[He Also Did]]: ''Everything.'' Asimov wrote for pretty much every category of book you can name, short of cookbooks.
* [[Heads or Tails]]: In ''[[The Machine That Won The War]]'', the final reveal is {{spoiler|that a war has been ''won'' this way.}}
* [[I Comma Noun]]: In addition to ''I, Robot'', played with in ''I. Asimov: A Memoir'', where the differing punctuation turns a pronoun into an initial.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Asimov said that he had been often criticized for having not enough sex in his works, so in ''The Gods Themselves'' he introduced aliens with three genders.
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