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Name one of the most successful twentieth century science fiction writer from russia(with information)?

Name one of the most successful twentieth century science fiction writer from russia(with information)

Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia, as the son of Judah Asimov and Anna Rachel Berman Asimov. His father was educated within the limits of Orthodox Judaism, but religion did not play a central role in Isaac’s childhood. “He didn’t even bother to have me bar mitzvahed at the ago of thirteen,” Asimov remarked later. Judah Asimov was well read in Russian literature, but especially he loved Sholem Aleichem’s Yiddish stories. During World War I he served in the Russian Army. In 1923 the family moved to the United States, and settled in New York. Before opening a sweet-shop, Judah worked in odd jobs, and learned also to speak English. In old age, when he retired to Florida, he became Orthodox again. Asimov himself never learned Russian, and the culture of his parents’ native country remained him distant.

Asimov could read before he entered the first grade. He also had “a near-photographic memory.” At school Asimov finished books in a few days. His father got him a library card, but did not supervise the books his son read. A classic “bookworm”, Asimov devoured early works on Greek mythology, the Iliad, William Shakespeare plays, history books, all kinds of miscellaneous reading. One library was not enough – he used to go to every one within reach. After leaving Boys High School in Brooklyn, an elite school in those days, Asimov studied chemistry at Columbia University, New York, where he graduated in 1939 and received his M.A. in 1941.

In 1942 Asimov married Gertrude Blugerman; they had two children. The marriage was not easy – “sex didn’t work out too well”, recalled Asimov, “with neither of us possessing experience.” She also smoked. During WW II Asimov worked in the US Naval Air Experimental Station alongside such science fiction writers as L. Sprague de Camp, who, according to Asimov, had “something very British about his appearance”, and Robert A. Heinlein, who made Asimov feel “particularly gauche” with his courtly way. Asimov’s relationship with Heinlein became later somewhat strained. He believed that Heinlein, a liberal during the war, adopted “rock-ribbed far-right conservative” attitudes afterwards under the influence of his wife. At the NAES Asimov remained from 1942 to 1945. After the end of the war Asimov served in the army as a corporal – he received his draft notice in September 1945. Asimov served eight months and twenty-six days. In 1948 he received his Ph. in biochemistry from Columbia University. Asimov’s pseudo-dissertation, ‘The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline’, was published in 1948 in Astounding Science Fiction.

In 1949 Asimov joined the Boston University School of Medicine, where he was made an associate professor of biochemistry in 1955. Asimov was one of the best lecturers at the university, but after 1958 he taught only from time to time. Research did not interest him much. “As far as I know, not a single research paper to which my name was attached ever proved of the slightest importance,” Asimov said. He devoted himself to writing and focused mostly on non-fiction, publishing such works as THE INTELLIGENT MAN’S GUIDE TO SCIENCE (1960), and books on history and literary topics. Asimov remained an associate professor until 1979, and subsequently held the title of professor.

Asimov married in 1973 the writer and psychoanalyst Janet Opal Jeppson. He had met her already in the 1950s. During the following years, Asimov saw her from time to time on his visits to New York. Correspondence with her convinced Asimov that she was the kind of person that suited him perfectly. Janet Jeppson began to write science fiction in the 1970, most of it for children. Her early works she published under the name J.O. Jeppson. Among her books are The Second Experiment (1974), The Last Immortal (1980), Laughing Space (anthology, 1982), The Mysterious Cure, and Other Stories of Pshrinks Anonymous (1985), and Mind Transfer (1988). For young readers she created in collaboration with Isaac Asimov the Norby Chronicles, which depicted the adventures of a robot.

“Since I am an atheist and do not believe that either God or Satan, Heaven or Hell, exists, I can only suppose that when I die, there will only be an eternity of nothingness to follow.” (from I. Asimov) Asimov had in 1977 a heart attack and in 1983 he had triple bypass surgery. The winter of 1989-90 Asimov spent in a hospital due to a congenital weakness of the mitral valve in the heart. In FORWARD THE FOUNDATION (1993) Asimov said farewell to Hari Seldon. Asimov’s heart and kidney failure worsened and he died at New York University Hospital on April 6, 1992.

Asimov started to write at the age of eleven. When he worked at his father’s store, he became interested in pulp magazines, and imitated their language in his early works. At the age of 18 Asimov sold his first story, ‘Marooned Off Vesta’. One of the magazines, which printed his tales, was Astounding Science Fiction. It was edited by John W. Campbell J

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Google Inc is one of the most admired and respected companies in the world. But many people do not have details on the company’s humble beginnings. The truth is that Google grew from obscurity to the huge success it is today without spending a dime on advertising. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page simply used free advertising methods to get the word out about their company and the wonderful service they were offering. Surely this should be proof enough that free advertising works. It worked for Google.

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The Google guys identified a problem. It was getting increasingly difficult to find stuff on the web even as it expanded rapidly. So they created a search engine that would help folks find things fast. It is much easier for a product to take off when it addresses a real problem. The more serious the problem the bigger the rewards in the end. The most powerful form of advertising is word of mouth advertising. It is free but very difficult to trigger. It helps a lot if the product is useful and solves a nagging problem.

b) Give free samples of your product to get it out there and get word of mouth working

The next thing Brin and Page did was to encourage their colleagues at Stanford (where they were Ph.d students) to use their wonderful new search engine. They did and instantly liked it. It is important to get people using your product as soon as possible and giving free samples is the most powerful form of advertising.

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Where can I find a good science fiction publisher dealing with old fashioned scifi?

My writing style is much like the science fiction style in the 1930′ and 40’s and I am having trouble finding publishers that publish that type of science fiction. My novels are much like the early Edgar Rice Burroughs novels or even Buck Rogers. I see plenty of publishers putting out books from older authors, but where can a new author find a publisher interested in publishing that sort of story?
All were good answers. Thanks!

Well, publishers will tend to publish what will sell. If people want old style science fiction, chances are they will go out and buy old science fiction. That is, there isn’t much of a market for your sort of work.

This devolves into a question of why you are writing? Is it for yourself and the enjoyment of it, or is it to get published and make money? If it is the former, then don’t worry about not getting published (but, I would say, keep trying, and try to build a rep through writing short stories and getting those published in magazines). If it is the latter, however, then you have to write to your audience (well… you write to your audience no matter what, but for one your audience is you, for the other the audience is everyone else).

Not the answer you were looking for, I am sure, but hopefully one that will help.

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So you want to write a good story? The kind of fiction that resonates with its readers; the kind that lasts longer on the shelf than the milk at your grocer; the kind that keeps people up at night like a narcotic? Well, then here’s a little advice my fifth grade teacher, Ms. Pendergast, gave me: do your homework. But you don’t like research, you say. That’s why you write fiction and not non-fiction, you say. With fiction you can just make everything up. You don’t need to do any research. OK, so how is that working for you? Before you answer, let me also ask you this: ever hear of Michael Crichton? How about The Da Vinci Code?

I could go on and on, listing authors and titles that most anyone has heard of, besides maybe Osama—though I bet even he has read The Da Vinci Code. And though there are many reasons why these authors are so successful, there is at least one thing they have in common. They do their homework. Their works are rich with research. Think about it. If Dan Brown just made everything up in The Da Vinci Code would it have become a #1 world bestseller? Absolutely not. The Da Vinci Code’s success is directly related to Dan’s ability to convince the reader that in fact it may just be that Jesus had wed, born children, and that his lineage exists down to the present. Despite all the churchyard signs, documentaries, and nay-saying experts to the contrary, Dan’s book is credible, at least to the reader. And that is the kind of fiction that sells—credible fiction.

Now keep in mind that credible isn’t synonymous with absolute truth or fact. The Da Vinci Code is by no means a historical textbook, nor should anyone read it as such. Even Crichton’s work, as authentic as many of his may be, should never be mistaken for absolute truth, facts, or any form of non-fiction. They are all works of fiction. But they do speak a truth of a different kind. They speak of emotional, moral, and even universal truths. And it these truths that readers hunger for, not necessarily the facts. Works such as Crichton’s State of Fear and Brown’s The Da Vinci Code ring true, feel true, and in a metaphoric sense are true.

And the key to earning this sort of credibility, this authority to speak a subjective truth, is building a story upon a foundation of in-depth, exhaustive research. Readers are intelligent, in a street-wise sort of way if not in an academic sense. They know when they’re being lied to, when an author is faking it, or when she is flat out wrong. And readers also recognize sincerity, subject matter expertise, and especially when an element of a story overlaps with their own personal experience. You don’t have to discover an ancient secret that rewrites history, understand the complex workings of nano technology, or even travel beyond your city library. Your story can be a simple detective story or genre romance. But there is research that can be, and should be, done to tell that romance or who-dunit with authority and credibility.

To give an example, one I’m quite familiar with, my first novel was a thriller about Sasquatch or Bigfoot. Now I knew two things going into this project. First, most of my potential readers already believed Sasquatch to be a hoax or simply a myth at best. Second, the scariest sort of monster is one that is real, one the reader can’t simply dismiss as pure fantasy whenever the tension gets too tight for their comfort. So my task was to convince the reader that Sasquatch might not be as fantastic as they believe. Perhaps it may even be alive and well in their own backwoods. And the only way to accomplish this was through research. I had to create an authentic creature on the page for the reader to behold. Not only that, I had to graft my story into the very world the reader knew to be their own. And I accomplished that be doing a little homework on Lewis & Clark, specifically the possibility that the two legendary explorers may have actually discovered Sasquatch. The end result was Cryptid: The Lost Legacy of Lewis & Clark.

Osama may not have read Cryptid yet, but it is on bookstore shelves, and for far longer than the milk at my grocer. And I guarantee you it’s not because of my vivid imagination and ability to make-up a good story about Bigfoot. On the contrary, it is because I made-up very little, just enough. The rest came from over a year of thorough research. Readers care about the story because it feels true. And it feels true because in a large sense it is true.

So listen to Ms. Pendergast, Mr. Thatchet, or whoever your fifth grade teacher was. Do your homework. You might be surprised to find it easier to keep me up at night reading your book if you had researched it rather than faked it.

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