Isaac Asimov - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	02-January-1920
Place of Birth	Petrovichi (Russia)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Paul French, Dr. "A", George E. Dale, H. B. Ogden, Asimov, isaac_asimov, The Human Typewriter, Isaak Judah Ozimov, Asimov, Isaac, Paul French, Isaak Yudovich Ozimov
Profession	Author, Writer, Science writer, Novelist, Biochemist, Historian, Essayist, Actor
Quotes	If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too. It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking. Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster. I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it... I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written 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. Asimov is widely considered a master of hard science fiction and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, he was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. The Galactic Empire novels are explicitly set in earlier history of the same fictional universe as the Foundation series. Later, beginning with Foundation's Edge, he linked this distant future to the Robot and Spacer stories, creating a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. He wrote hundreds of short stories, including the social science fiction "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.

Awards by Isaac Asimov

Check all the awards nominated and won by Isaac Asimov.

1996

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Related Work	Yours, Isaac Asimov

1995

Hugo Award for Best Related Work

Honored for : In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920\u20131954

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction	In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920\u20131954
Hugo Award for Best Related Work	In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920\u20131954
Locus Award for Best Art Book	I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay

1994

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection	Forward the Foundation

1993

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 25 (1963)

1992

Hugo Award for Best Novelette

Honored for : Gold

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novelette	Gold
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 23 (1961)
Locus Award for Best Anthology	The New Hugo Winners, Volume II

1991

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 20 (1958)
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 21 (1959)
Locus Award for Best Anthology	The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1950s

1990

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection	The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 19 (1957)
Locus Award for Best Anthology	The New Hugo Winners

1989

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	Prelude to Foundation
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 (1956)

1988

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 16 (1954)

1987

Locus Award for Best Short Story

Honored for : Robot Dreams

Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Short Story	Robot Dreams
Locus Award for Best Collection	Robot Dreams
Locus Award for Best Short Story	Robot Dreams
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	Foundation and Earth
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 15 (1953)
Locus Award for Best Anthology	The Hugo Winners, Volume 5

1986

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Short Story	Robot Dreams
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	Robots and Empire
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 13 (1951)
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 (1952)
Locus Award for Best Anthology	The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: 1976-1979

1985

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 (1949)
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 (1950)

1984

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel	The Robots of Dawn
Locus Award for Best Collection	The Winds of Change and Other Stories
Locus Award for Best Short Story	Potential
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	The Robots of Dawn
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 (1948)
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 9 (1947)

1983

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Honored for : Foundation's Edge

Hugo Award for Best Novel

Honored for : Foundation's Edge

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel	Foundation's Edge
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	Foundation's Edge
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 7 (1945)
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 8 (1946)

1982

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel	Foundation's Edge
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 5 (1943)
Locus Award for Best Anthology	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 (1944)

1981

Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Related Work	In Joy Still Felt
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction	In Joy Still Felt
Locus Award for Best Short Story	The Last Answer

1980

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction	In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920\u20131954
Hugo Award for Best Related Work	In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920\u20131954
Locus Award for Best Anthology	The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction

1977

Hugo Award for Best Novelette

Honored for : The Bicentennial Man

Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novelette	The Bicentennial Man

1976

Nebula Award for Best Novelette

Honored for : The Bicentennial Man

Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novelette	The Bicentennial Man

1975

Klumpke-Roberts Award

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novelette	. . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him

1973

Locus Award for Best Novel

Honored for : The Gods Themselves

Hugo Award for Best Novel

Honored for : The Gods Themselves

Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel	The Gods Themselves
Locus Award for Best Novel	The Gods Themselves

1972

Nebula Award for Best Novel

Honored for : The Gods Themselves

Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel	The Gods Themselves

1967

Edward E. Smith Memorial Award

1966

Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series

Honored for : The Foundation Trilogy

Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series	The Foundation Trilogy

1965

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Short Story	Eyes Do More Than See
Nebula Award for Best Short Story	Founding Father

1961

Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction	The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science

1954

Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel	The Caves of Steel

1951

Nominations 1951 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel	Pebble in the Sky
Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella	\u2026And Now You Don\u2019t

1946

Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel

Honored for : The Mule

Nominations 1946 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella	The General Under the title \"Dead Hand\".
Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel	The Mule

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