Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of January 2nd.
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It is the second day of the year, leaving 363 days remaining in 2022.
Asimov, who moved to the United States when he was 8 years old, told his stories from a hard science perspective, and was considered one of the top three science fiction authors during his lifetime.
He was a prolific writer and editor, with more than 500 books to his credit. He is best known for his Foundation series, and for his Robot series, which were collected as I, Robot. That collection included his ethical rules for robots, first written in the 1942 short story Runaround, which stressed the admonistion that a robot could never kill a human being. His novels and short stories stressed scientific accuracy and logic.
Enhancing his reputation as a science-fiction writer is the fact he was also a scientist -- he had a doctorate in chemistry from Columbia University in New York, and he was a professor of biochemistry at Boston University for much of his life.
But he was, first and foremost, a writer and story teller. He published his first story in 1939, and in 1941 wrote and published Nightfall, about a planet in a multiple star system that experienced darkness for one night every 2,049 years. In 1968, the Science Fiction Writers of America named it the best science fiction short story of all time.
Asimov also won numerous Hugo and Nebula awards, for such stories as The Gods Themselves and The Bicentennial Man, about a robot that sought to become human.
He died April 2, 1992, at his home in New York City.
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