Why the church so often (erroneously) predicts our own demise. The signs are escalating every day. The world is in turmoil. We are on the cusp—right now—of the end of the age.” So reads the disclaimer ...

Despite writing some of the most influential sci-fi stories of all time, filmmakers have found it a huge challenge to adapt ...

In August of 1964, just more than 50 years ago, author Isaac Asimov wrote a piece in The New York Times, pegged to that summer's World Fair. In the essay, Asimov imagines what the World Fair would be ...

In 1964, the famed writer shared his vision of our time. Some predictions were spot-on, while others were wildly off base. Crave's Eric Mack thinks he knows why. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor ...

As Radio 4 broadcasts its adaptation of these short stories, the series' scriptwriter, Richard Kurti, takes a look at some of ...

In 1988, Bill Moyers interviewed author Isaac Asimov for WORLD OF IDEAS. Incredibly prolific in various genres beyond the science fiction for which he was best known, Asimov wrote well over 400 books ...

To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1964 New York World's Fair, we turn back to some predictions that The New York Times commissioned Isaac Asimov to make on the occasion. He got many things right. On ...

If you have ever been a fan of science fiction, you cannot do better than to return to the works of Isaac Asimov, argues The Threepenny Review’s Wendy Lesser in her review of Asimov’s The End Of ...

Writing for the New York Times in August of 1964, the great sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov laid out some speculation for what the world would be like in 50 years. He did it under the guise of an imagined ...

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In 1942, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov introduced the “Three Laws of Robotics” to the world through his short story ‘Runaround’. These safety principles stipulate that robots must not harm ...

Although he was no Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, few writers of any age surpassed Isaac Asimov in sheer breadth and fecundity. In the fiction category, Asimov’s “Foundation” trilogy was voted the best ...