The year is 2100 A.D.…
And Man no longer stands alone in the universe.
Now there are other worlds, other living beings. Alien beings who mate in threes and live on pure energy. New breeds of humans who have created their own environment and freed themselves from every social and sexual taboo.
Yes, it is the future of new worlds, ever-changing worlds. And yet among them there is still Earth.
Earth, where Man still strives to be the best. To advance himself beyond all other beings and their worlds. And this final, glorious step in mankind’s technical progress has been achieved: the discovery of an unlimited, non-polluting energy source.
But what seems to be progress may, in reality, end in complete tragedy.
Earth’s unlimited energy source is about to trigger unlimited destruction—and the end of a universe.
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The Three Laws of Robotics and the vast interstellar narrative of the Foundation saga redefined mid-twentieth-century speculative fiction. Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) established an enduring legacy in hard science fiction and popular science exposition through hundreds of books that made complex scientific concepts accessible to general readers.
Born in Petrovichi, Russia, in 1920, Asimov immigrated with his family to the United States in 1923 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he discovered science fiction through magazines sold in his father's candy store. He published his first short story, 'Marooned off Vesta,' in 1939 while contributing to science fiction pulp periodicals. During World War II, he worked at the Naval Aviation Experimental Station in Philadelphia alongside fellow authors Robert A. Heinlein and L. Sprague de Camp. Asimov earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Columbia University and went on to teach at Boston University School of Medicine. His debut novel, Pebble in the Sky, appeared in 1950, launching a prolific literary career that ultimately encompassed more than 500 written or edited books across science, history, literature, and religion before his death in 1992.
Renowned as one of the 'Big Three' science fiction writers of the twentieth century alongside Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein, Asimov pioneered rational, hard science fiction rooted in logical problem-solving and sociological systems. His fiction frequently explored artificial intelligence, robotics, and the mathematical prediction of future history through the discipline of psychohistory. In classic titles such as I, Robot and The Caves of Steel, he introduced structured ethical frameworks and science fiction mystery hybrids, while standalone works like The Gods Themselves examined parallel universes and human intellect. Beyond fiction, his clear, engaging prose style extended to non-fiction, spanning nine out of ten major categories in the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
