![]() ![]() Science fiction writer Alec Nevala-Lee would eventually point to Asimov's presence as a major factor in the reason that the early science-fiction community was overwhelmingly male-dominated, citing a number of science fiction writers who were active at the same time as Asimov who provided accounts of Asimov kissing, hugging and groping women at conventions. … Asimov was known in those days, to various women, as "the man with a hundred hands." When it went, occasionally, beyond purely social enjoyability, there seemed no way to clue him in. įurthermore, in his own autobiography he allowed Judith Merell, a fellow contemporary science fiction writer, to write a footnote in which she claimed: "The fact is that Isaac (who was at that time a spectacularly uxorious and virtuous husband) apparently felt obliged to leer, ogle, pat, and proposition as an act of sociability. The question is merely where, when, and how she should be touched.". He went on the record to write in the novel The Sensuous Dirty Old Man, a satirical pick-up artist book based on the actual pick-up artist book The Sensuous Man : "The question then is not whether or not a girl should be touched. In 2013, the FBI released files showing that, starting in 1965, they investigated Asimov (who had emigrated from Soviet Russia in 1923 at the age of 3) as being a possible Soviet agent. The high quality and diversity of his pop-science work earned him the title of the "Great Explainer" and once prompted Kurt Vonnegut to ask him "how does it feel to know everything?" He considered himself a rationalist, humanist, and skeptic and also did some work in refuting superstition and pseudoscience. ![]() He is most famed for his writing on robotics, but during the 1960s he shifted his focus almost entirely to writing popular science, inspired by the public's new-found interest in science following the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. ![]() ![]() Originally, Asimov started in the field of biochemistry, earning a PhD in the subject in 1948 and taking a teaching position at Boston University's School of Medicine until he turned to writing full-time in 1958. ![]()
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