Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for hard science fiction, above all the Foundation series about a fallen space empire. He also wrote the Robot series, including The Caves of Steel, and the Galactic Empire novels, along with mysteries, fantasy and popular science such as Understanding Physics. Among the Big Three science fiction writers of his day, alongside Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, he wrote or edited more than 500 books before his death in 1992.