About National Science Fiction Day
National Science Fiction Day is celebrated by many science fiction fans in the United States on January 2nd, marking the accepted birthdate of famed science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.
We all want to live in a fictional world where superheroes exist and amazing scientific things happen. And for that, we enjoy reading science fiction books and binge-watching sci-fi movies and TV shows. National Science Fiction Day is observed in America to promote and celebrate Sci-Fi movies and books.
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was born on January 2nd 1920 and 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 prolific and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards.
Asimov wrote 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.
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.
Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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