One reason for Starting From Scratch was the difficulty for readers of the Third book being able to purchase the (by then) out-of-print first two volumes. Asimov's life, making it a standalone autobiography. Instead of continuing from where the Second book left off in 1978, 'I, Asimov' covers all of Dr. That book would have been written many years later and called 'The Scenes of Life (covering 1978-?)', but with his health being uncertain he began writing this Third volume which became 'I, Asimov'. Asimov's autobiography series after 'In Memory Yet Green (covering 1920-54)' and 'In Joy Still Felt (covering 1954-78)', this isn't actually the Third volume as it was originally intended. While this is technically the Third in Dr. This great book is now an unabridged release! Asimov is the candid memoir of an incomparable talent who entertained readers and listeners for nearly half a century and whose work will surely endure into the future he so vividly envisioned. Here, too, is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the varied personalities - Campbell, Ellison, Heinlein, Clarke, del Rey, Silverberg, and others - who along with Asimov helped shape science fiction.Īs unique and irrepressible as the man himself, I. Here are his wide-ranging thoughts and sharp-eyed observations on everything from religion to politics, love and divorce, friendship and Hollywood, fame and mortality. Here is the story of the paradoxical genius who wrote of travel to the stars yet refused to fly in airplanes who imagined alien universes and vast galactic civilizations while staying home to write who compulsively authored more than 470 books yet still found the time to share his ideas with some of the great minds of our century. Asimov is his personal story - vivid, open, and honest - as only Asimov himself could tell it. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname 'the Great Explainer'. Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time.

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