Isaac Asimov won a 1977 Hugo Award for this novelette about a robot named Andrew who lives to be 200 years old
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The Bicentennial Man - Wikipedia  "The Bicentennial Man" is a novelette in the Robot series by Isaac Asimov. It was awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for best science ... A character named Andrew Martin requests an unknown operation from a robotic surgeon. ... The story jumps to 200 years in the past, when a robot with a serial number...
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Living Forever: Biting Off More Than I Can Chew - Mister Immortal  Come on, you apes; you wanna live forever? ... That same year, I came across a story by Isaac Asimov called The ... The story went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novelette of 1977, a really big deal in the sci-fi world. In short, The Bicentennial Man introduces us to a robot named Andrew who comes to...
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File 770 | Mike Glyer's news of science fiction fandom | Page 758  Oct 18, 2008 ... Hugo Award winners have occasionally been showing up as Jeopardy! answers for years. ... 2006 was: Isaac Asimov won a 1977 Hugo Award for this novelette about a robot named Andrew who lives to be 200 years old.
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Isaac Asimov FAQ - Isaac Asimov Home Page  Jul 11, 2014 ... Answers to frequently asked questions about Isaac Asimov and his works. ... What did Asimov write besides the Foundation and Robot books? ..... nicknames, except for a few old friends who had been calling him Ike for years. ... awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for best novelette in 1977.
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Cyber Heroes of the past: Isaac Asimov  Isaac was only three years old at the time and because his parents only spoke ... The family settled in Brooklyn, New York, and changed its name to Asimov. ... based on Asimov's earlier novel The Bicentennial Man, describes a robot, Andrew, ... Writing Award; 1977  Hugo Award for Best Novelette for The Bicentennial Man...
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Wikipedia  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. First published in 1968, the novel is set in a post-apocalyptic...
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Isaac Asimov - Digital Fabrication  Jul 18, 2013 ... published in nine out of ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal ... Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime. .... In his humor book Asimov Laughs Again, he describes Boston driving as ... textbook called Biochemistry and ..... of his writing, Opus 100 (1969), Opus 200 (1979), and Opus 300 (1984).
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Isaac Asimov and the Three Laws of Robotics | Kirkus Reviews  Mar 14, 2013 ... He eventually sold his first story to Amazing Stories, Marooned of Vesta ... The idea of the rules came not from Asimov, but from John Campbell,...
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Robert A. Heinlein - Wikipedia  Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of ... He won Hugo Awards for four of his novels; in addition, fifty years after .... sold to Astounding for significantly more than the contest's first-prize payoff. ..... of protagonists of colorin the context of science fiction before the 1960s, the...
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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Vols. 1-2 by Isaac Asimov ...  Highly respected and widely read author Isaac Asimov offers a fresh, ... I, Robot by Isaac Asimov Foundation by Isaac Asimov Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov ..... In the Goodreads ranking of books about Shakespeare, I would rate it lower ... That being said, if you are a teacher of Shakespeare, you will find a wealth of...
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Isaac Asimov - Heureka  Isaac Asimov (1920-92), Russian-born American writer and scientist. A distinguished biochemist, and prolific writer, the author of many works of science fiction, ... extending beyond science and science fiction to include mystery stories, ... later, Foundation's Edge (1982); The Naked Sun (1957); The Gods Themselves (1972).
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Isaac Asimov Quotes - 75 Science Quotes - Dictionary of Science ...  Russian-American writer and biochemist who was a prolific author and editor of science fiction and non-fiction. ... 'The Three Laws of Robotics', in I, Robot (1950), Frontispiece. ... It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts. ..... Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3) by Isaac Asimov ...  Love...is...Forever... Photobucket CHAPTER ONE The Foundation Trilogy ... In my life, there have been three science fiction books/series that will always hold special ...... A great premise and a good read, but I think Asimov makes a wrong turn .... fiction, but they are the Foundation upon which all of today's sf authors fed as...
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alt.books.isaac-asimov FAQ - Isaac Asimov Home Page  Jul 11, 2014 ... Can you help me find it? ... What did Asimov write besides the Foundation and Robot books? ... Did you know that Asimov is the only author to have published books in all ten ... And then there are books like Harlan Ellison's I, Robot: The ..... books about it, notably the two volume Asimov's Guide to the Bible...
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Asimov, Isaac - Dictionary definition of Asimov, Isaac | Encyclopedia ...  A member of Mensa and a prolific writer, Asimov was widely considered the father of modern science fiction. ... Under the pseudonym Paul French, he wrote such sci-fi novels as David Starr: Space Ranger (1952) and several Lucky Starr novels, ... Among Asimov's novels under his own name are I, Robot (1950), in which he...
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RUR Title Page  ... the first application of the term "robot" occurred in a play written by Karel Capek entitled R.U.R. The term ... Capek published R.U.R. or Rossum's Universal Robots in 1921. ... The human characters of the play are as follows: .... if there are no humans left, there should at least exist "the shadow of man," meaning the Robots.
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Robert A. Heinlein - Wikipedia  Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of ... He won Hugo Awards for four of his novels; in addition, fifty years after .... of science fiction, including Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) and The Moon Is .... Heinlein decisively ended his juvenile novels with Starship Troopers (1959),...
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Isaac Asimov facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  He also read science fiction magazines and wrote stories. His .... His first published piece appeared in his high school's literary semiannual and was accepted, he says, ... Its editor was John W. Campbell, who was to influence the work of some of the ... into the genre, including the formulation of the "Three Laws of Robotics.
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Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia  Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer, and wrote or edited more than 500 books and ..... The early 1950s also saw the Gnome Press company publishing one collection of...
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Authors : apek, Karel : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia  Sep 20, 2015 ... SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia : (1890-1938) Writer born in the former ... R.U.R. introduced the word Robot (at Josef's suggestion) to the world. ... Of greater interest to the sf reader was the first of apek's sf novels, ... (1924; trans Lawrence Hyde 1925; vt An Atomic Phantasy: Krakatit 1948), ... See also:.
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Robot series (Asimov) - Wikipedia  The Robot series is a series of 38 short stories and 5 novels by science fiction author Isaac ... The next four robot novels The Caves of Steel (1953), The Naked Sun (1955), ... Asimov later integrated the Robot Series into his all-engulfing Foundation ... The 1989 anthology Foundation's Friends included the positronic robot...