Did the authors Isaac Asimov and Jean Giono write their fictions in a similar setting?
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Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov ( ; born Isaak Ozimov; January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was a Russian-American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer, and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification.
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Jean Giono Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French author who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.
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Guy Gavriel Kay Guy Gavriel Kay {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born November 7, 1954) is a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction. Many of his novels are set in fictional realms that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid. Those works are published and marketed as historical fantasy, although Kay has expressed a preference to avoid genre categorization.
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Waterclap "Waterclap" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was written at the request of a movie company and was intended to serve as the basis of a film treatment. However, the author disliked the proposed characters and storyline and deliberately set out to write a story that he hoped would be rejected. The story was indeed rejected by the studio and was later published in the May 1970 issue of "If" and reprinted in the 1976 collection "The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories".
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Isaac Asimov short stories bibliography This is a list of short stories by Isaac Asimov. Asimov is mainly famous for his science-fiction, but he also wrote mystery and fantasy stories.
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Jean Sutton Eugenia Geneva "Jean" Sutton (July 5, 1917 – May 29, 2003) was a science fiction author.
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Birth of a Notion (short story) "Birth of a Notion" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story was written to celebrate the semicentennial (fiftieth anniversary) of the magazine "Amazing Stories" in June 1976. It appeared in the 1976 collection "The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories".
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Dagobert IX Emperor Dagobert IX is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's "Foundation and Empire". He is one of the last emperors of the Galactic Empire (it is unlikely he was the last, since that would have required him to live to the age of approximately 120).
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U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. is a fictional 21st century manufacturer of robots that appears in Isaac Asimov's "Robot" series of novels and short stories.
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Utopian and dystopian fiction The utopia and its derivative, the dystopia, are genres literature that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction portrays a setting that agrees with the author's ethos, having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to readers. Dystopian (or dystopic) fiction (sometimes combined with, but distinct from apocalyptic literature) is the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos. Many novels combine both, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take, depending on its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures. Both utopias and dystopias are commonly found in science fiction and other speculative fiction genres, and arguably are by definition a type of speculative fiction.
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Robert J. Sawyer Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 23 novels published, and his short fiction has appeared in "Analog Science Fiction and Fact", "Amazing Stories", "On Spec", "Nature", and many anthologies. Sawyer has won the Nebula Award (1995), the Hugo Award (2003), and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2006).
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Sylvie (novel) Sylvie (1853) is a novella by French Romanticist Gérard de Nerval. It was first published in the periodical "La Revue des Deux Mondes" in 1853, and as a book in "Les Filles du feu" in 1854, just a few months before Nerval killed himself in January 1855. "Sylvie" is often considered to be Nerval's prose masterpiece, and has been a favorite of Marcel Proust, André Breton, Joseph Cornell and Umberto Eco. Harold Bloom included it in "The Western Canon" (1994).
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The Science Fictional Olympics The Science Fictional Olympics is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the second volume in their Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction series. It was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in June 1984. It has been translated into Italian in the series "Urania".
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Cosmo Argento Cosmo Argento was a series of science fiction books published in Italy by Editrice Nord starting from October 1970. Differently from the similar re-prints collection "Cosmo Oro", it usually consisting of translations of US books previously unpublished in the country. Authors included US most famous science fiction writers, such as Philip J. Farmer, Jack Vance, Frederik Pohl, John Brunner, Gordon R. Dickson, Larry Niven and others. Original works by Italian authors were regularly published also.
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The Immortal Bard "The Immortal Bard" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the May 1954 issue of "Universe Science Fiction", and has since been republished in several collections and anthologies, including "Earth Is Room Enough" (1957) and "The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov" (1986). (In "Earth Is Room Enough" (Panther Books Ltd. reprint 1973 edition) the title of the story is "An Immortal Bard" in the Contents list but "The Immortal Bard" on the destination page. There is a similar, but reversed variation in title with The Author's Ordeal.) Like many of his stories, it is told as a conversation, in this case between two professors at a college faculty's annual Christmas party.
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The Robots of Dawn The Robots of Dawn is a "whodunit" science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in 1983. It is the third novel in Asimov's "Robot" series.
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Asimov (disambiguation) Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) was a science fiction writer.
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The Day of the Dolphin (book) The Day of the Dolphin ("Un animal doué de raison" – lit. "A Sentient Animal") is a 1967 science fiction thriller novel by French novelist Robert Merle. The plot concerns dolphins that are trained to communicate with humans, and their use in warfare. The central character is a government scientist with similar ideas to those of John C. Lilly.
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Felix C. Gotschalk Felix C. Gotschalk (1929 – April 20, 2002) was an American science fiction writer with a distinct, idiosyncratic style, his work marked by energetic exploration of social and sexual taboos. He was also known as Jacques Goudchaux.
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Robot series (Asimov) The "Robot" series is a series of 38 short stories and 5 novels by science fiction author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) featuring positronic robots.
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Each an Explorer "Each an Explorer" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was written in June 1956 and first published in issue #30 of "Future Science Fiction". It was also reprinted in the 1975 collection "Buy Jupiter and Other Stories".
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Foundation's Edge Foundation's Edge (1982) is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the "Foundation" Series. It was written more than thirty years after the stories of the original "Foundation" trilogy, due to years of pressure by fans and editors on Asimov to write another, and, according to Asimov himself, the amount of the payment offered by the publisher. It was his first novel to ever land on "The New York Times" best-seller list, after 262 books and 44 years of writing. "Foundation's Edge" won both the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983 and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1983, and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1982.