"A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."

Isaac Asimov (1920–92)
Author
BS 1939, MA 1941, PhD 1948

See New York Times obituary, April 7, 1992

Author of nearly 500 books, including

Pebble in the Sky (1950)
I, Robot (1950)
Foundation (1951)
Foundation and Empire (1952)
Second Foundation (1953)
The Caves of Steel (1954)
The End of Eternity (1955)
The Naked Sun (1957)
The Human Body (1963)
Asimov's Guide to the Bible (1968, 1969)
The Shaping of England (1969)
ABC's of Ecology (1972)
Asimov's Annotated Paradise Lost (1974)
Asimov on Chemistry (1974)
Lecherous Limericks (1975)
Animals of the Bible (1978)
In Joy Still Felt (1980)
Counting the Eons (1983)
The Roving Mind (1983)
The Robots of Dawn (1983)
Robots and Empire (1985)
Foundation and Earth (1986)
Prelude to Foundation (1988)
Nemesis (1989)
Asimov Laughs Again (1992)

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