Isaac Asimov

Continues the Foundation trilogy. Golan Trevise, former councliman of the First Foundation, is entrusted with formidable task--to determine the future of Galactic development.

Describes the life of Columbus as a young man, and as an explorer who marshalled the best technology of his time to explore new lands.

This book introduces the fourth largest known planet in the solar system.

The Foundation Trilogy spans more than a thousand years in the history of an ideal universal ruling organization.

Kalgash is a world on the edge of chaos, torn between religious fanaticism and scientific rationalism. Their civilization is threatened by Nightfall, the first sunset in over two thousand years

Contains a collection of short stories written by Isaac Asimov between 1940 through the 1980s, that explore the themes of science fiction, such as robotics, space travel, and aliens

A collection of stories, mixing fiction and non-fiction. Most of the fiction pieces belong to a series about a man and his demon, while the non-fiction pieces discuss the craft of science fiction and fantasy writing. The author analyzes the work of famous writers, including his own.

This book begins with the earliest speculations and investigations of matter by the Greeks and Romans, and then, step by step and century by century, it traces the path of discovery that revealed more and more of the nature of the atom, of light, of gravity, or the electromagnetic force and even the nature and structure of the universe. It also encompasses such phenomena as light and electricity; the protons, neutrons, and quarks that are the fundamental...