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Автор Айзек Азимов

I. Asimov: A Memoir

Contents

Introduction

Infant Prodigy?

My Father

My Mother

Marcia

Religion

My Name

Anti-Semitism

Library

Bookworm

School

Growing Up

Long Hours

Pulp Fiction

Science Fiction

Beginning to Write

Humiliation

Failure

The Futurians

Frederik Pohl

Cyril M. Kornbluth

Donald AllenWollheim

Early Sales

John Wood Campbell, Jr.

Robert Anson Heinlein

Lyon Sprague de Camp

Clifford Donald Simak

Jack Williamson

Lester del Rey

Theodore Sturgeon

Graduate School

Women

Heartbreak

"Nightfall"

As World War II Begins

Master of Arts

Pearl Harbor

Marriage and Problems

In-Laws

NAES

Life at War's End

Games

Acrophobia

Claustrophilia

Ph. D. and Public Speaking

Postdoctorate

Job Hunting

The Big Three

Arthur Charles Clarke

More Family

First Novel

New Job at Last

Doubleday

Gnome Press

Boston University School of Medicine

Scientific Papers

Novels

Nonfiction

Children

David

Robyn

Off the Cuff

Horace Leonard Gold

Country Living

Automobile

Fired!

Prolificity

Writer's Problems

Critics

Humor

Literary Sex and Censorship

Doomsday

Style

Letters

Plagiarism

Science Fiction Conventions

Anthony Boucher

Randall Garrett

Harlan Ellison

Hal Clement

Ben Bova

Over My Head

Farewell to Science Fiction

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Janet

Mystery Novels

Lawrence P. Ashmead

Overweight

More Conventions

Guide to Science

Indexes

Titles

Essay Collections

Histories

Reference Library

Boston University Collection

Anthologies

Headnotes

My Own Hugos

Walker & Company

Failures

Teenagers

Al Capp

Oases

Judy-Lynn del Rey

The Bible

Hundredth Book

Death

Life After Death

Divorce

Second Marriage

Guide to Shakespeare

Annotations

New in-Laws

Hospitalizations

Cruises

Janet's Books

Hollywood

Star Trek Conventions

Short Mysteries

Trap Door Spiders

Mensa

The Baker Street Irregulars

The Gilbert & Sullivan Society

American Way

Rensselaerville Institute

Mohonk Mountain House

Travel

Foreign Travel

Martin Harry Greenberg

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

Autobiography

Heart Attack

Crown Publishers

Simon & Schuster

Marginal Items

Nightfall, Inc.

Hugh Downs

Best-seller

Out of the Past

Word Processor

Police

Heinz Pagels

New Robot Novels

Robyn Again

Triple Bypass

Azazel

Fantastic Voyage II

Limousines

Humanists

Senior Citizen

More About Doubleday

Interviews

Honors

Russian Relatives

Grand Master

Children's Books

Recent Novels

Back to Nonfiction

Robert Silverberg

Gathering Shadows

Threescore Years and Ten

Hospital

New Autobiography

New Life

Epilogue, by Janet Asimov

Photographs

Introduction

In 1977, I wrote my autobiography.

Since I was dealing with my favorite subject, I wrote at length and I ended with 640,000 words. Since Doubleday is always overwhelmingly kind to me, they published it all—but in two volumes. The first was In Memory Yet Green (1979), the second In Joy Still Felt (1980). Together, they described the first fifty-seven years of my life in considerable detail.

It had been a quiet life and there was no great excitement in it, so even though I made up for that by what I considered a charming literary style (I never bother with false modesty, as you will quickly discover), the publication was not a world-shaking event. However, some thousands of people found pleasure in reading it, and I am periodically asked if I will continue the tale.