Though writers and scholars disagree on the precise boundaries of the Golden Age of science fiction and the New Wave, both are associated with the years after World War II. In his anthology Before the Golden Age, Isaac Asimov dates… Read More ›
Isaac Asimov
Analysis of Isaac Asimov’s The Machine That Won the War
After its initial appearance in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October 1961, “The Machine That Won the War” was republished in Nightfall and Other Stories (1961) and Robot Dreams (1986), and in innumerable student anthologies. The machine,… Read More ›
Young Adult Fiction Works and Writers
A distinctive literature about childhood has existed since the Victorian era, but not so about adolescence as a stage of life with its own integrity, concerns, and distinct problems. Teachers, librarians, and parents argue that the classics of world literature… Read More ›
Literary Criticism of Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was an unusually prolific author with more than five hundred published books in his bibliography, including fiction, autobiographies, edited anthologies of fiction, and nonfiction works ranging in subject from the Bible to science, history, and humor. Asimov was… Read More ›
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