Asimov attended school and was a very bright student. He went to college at Columbia University. He graduated from there with his master's degree in Chemistry in 1941. His career was cut short though because in 1942 he moved to Philadelphia Naval Yard to work for the war. In 1945 he entered the army. In July of 1946 he was discharged from the army and he moved around for a few years till settling in West Newton, Massachusetts with Gertrude. It is there that he raised his family (Seiler,8).

Asimov married Gertrude Blugerman on July 26th, 1942. They met on a blind date on Valentine's Day. In 1955 their first son was born they named him David. Four years later their daughter Robyn Joan was born. Asimov met another woman Janet Jepson at a mystery writers

Another influence to Asimov's stories was two of the societies to which he belonged. One society The Wodehouse Society Asimov used the butler Jeeves in many of his stories. This character played a major part of Asimov's Black Widower stories also the Wodehouse society gained recognition in his Azazel stories. The other group, which Asimov belonged to, that influenced his writing was the Trap Door Spiders. This was an all male group that met one Friday per month. Many of the characters in the Black Widower stories were based on members of this group. The groups that Asimov belonged to were influential to his works and can be seen today (Seiler, 10).

Asimov's first published story was in 1939 it was entitled "Marooned Off Vesta". This story was featured in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. The astounding publisher of this magazine was John W. Campbell Jr. He and Asimov had a close relationship and it was this that gave Asimov his beginning of a prosperous career. Asimov wrote mainly science fiction stories about robots. His themes of his stories were mainly based around his ideas that robots were rational programmable beings and friendly towards humans (Bloom, 251).

2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law.

Asimov's stories are mainly based around science fiction. He was a very intelligent man and this showed through in his stories. They were very technologically advanced. Asimov was fascinated with robots. He wrote mainly of their adventures. All of his stories shared a main theme. This theme was derived from the 3 laws of robotics as Asimov had formed them. They are:

Asimov has won quite a few awards in his lifetime for his achievements. Two major award-winning stories are The Foundation Trilogy and the novel The Gods Themselves. What made Asimov's stories so influential was that they were the first in his time. No one else before him had done such a thing and written about robots as he had. He introduced people of his time period into science fiction and beyond. (Magill, 875).

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