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His "Foundation" series won the Hugo award for "Best all-time series" in 1966, beating J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings".

He is the only author to have a published book in every Dewey Decimal library category apart from Philosophy.

Is famous for penning "The Three Laws of Robotics".

It has recently been admitted by Janet Jeppson Asimov, his wife, that Isaac acquired HIV during a bypass operation in 1983. He had kept it hidden at the behest of his doctors. It is believed that the primary cause of death wasn't AIDS, however, but kidney and heart failure.

Enjoyed a friendly rivalry with fellow science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke.

He produced about 500 books as (co-)author or (co-)editor. No definitive count is available.

He was afraid of air travel and generally disliked travel of any kind.

Attributed his ability to research and write about almost any subject to an ample memory. He could retain most of the things that he read or was told. He added however that his memory was not photographic, and he often had trouble with visual details.

His family moved to the US in the last year that this was easy to do. If they had waited until the next year, they most likely would not have been allowed to leave.

He enjoyed confined spaces and liked to work in windowless rooms.

He had two children with Gertrude: David and Robyn.

He won the Hugo and Nebula awards and received many honorary doctorates.

Was a member of Mensa.

His brother Stan (1929-95) was a journalist and rose to a vice-presidency at the Long Island newspaper "Newsday".

He was the first science-fiction writer to headline his own magazine.

No accurate records exist of his date of birth. He celebrated 2 January 1920, which was the latest possible date, but it might have been as early as 4 October 1919.

When he entered school his mother gave his birthdate as 7 September 1919 so he could start a year earlier. He later insisted on correcting the record; had he not done so, he would have been considered too old when his turn for the draft came up in November 1945.

The numeric part of his IMDb identifier code is 0001920, the same as the year of his birth.

8/21/70-8/23/70: Guest of Honor at Fan Fair II science-fiction convention in Toronto, Canada.

He drank alcohol only occasionally.

He did not speak Russian.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 3, 1991-1993, pages 35-37. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.

Born in 1920, he is labeled 0001920 on IMDb.