Asimov Isaac. Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

Edited by Stanley Asimov — Doubleday Books, 1996. — 360 p. — ISBN 9780385476249, 0385476248.Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific authors of our time. When he died in 1992 at the age of seventy-two, he had published more than 470 books in nearly every category of fiction and nonfiction. Asimov was a prodigious correspondent as well as a prolific author. During his professional career he received more than one hundred thousand letters, over ninety thousand of which he answered. For Asimov's younger brother, veteran newspaperman Stanley Asimov, the creation of "Yours, Isaac Asimov" was truly a labor of love. Completed before Stanley's death in August 1995, the book is made up of excerpts from one thousand never-before-published letters, each handpicked by Stanley for inclusion in this volume. Arranged by subject and accompanied by Stanley's short, insightful introductions, here are letters to statesmen and scientists, actors and authors, as well as to children, housewives, aspiring writers, and fans the world over. The letters are warm, engaging, reasoned, and occasionally impassioned. Through them all Isaac Asimov's legendary genius, wit, and charm shine through.And so we have "Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters," an intimate glimpse into the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of a great writer and thinker of the modern age. As Stanley Asimov advised, "Read the letters carefully. One of them may have been written to you."Foreword
Letters
Writing
Quantity
Typewriters, Word Processor and Computers
Editors and Publishers
Limericks and Oddities
The Business Side
Prominent People
Lectures
Science Fiction—I
Science Fiction—II
Campbell and Pohl
Clarke, de Camp and the del Reys
Ellison, Garrett and Greenberg
Other Science Fiction Friends
Magazines and Columns
More Limericks and Oddities
Science
Fans
Young People
Travel
More Saying “No”
Television, Hollywood and Star Trek
English
Still More Limericks and Oddities
Name
Youth
Parents
Children
Growing Older
Funnies
Favorites
Reading
And Still More Limericks and Oddities
Intelligence
Memory
Errors
Modesty, Honesty and Other Traits
Likes and Dislikes
Reviews, Criticism and Interviews
Evolution vs. Pseudoscience
Overpopulation and Women’s Rights
Censorship
Final Limericks and Oddities
Being a Liberal
Honors
Clubs 3
Shakespeare, Humor and Autobiography
Being Jewish
Being an Atheist
Health
Death
Afterword