Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction

Gunn, James. Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1982.

Includes a chronology of Asimov's life to 1980, a "Checklist of Works by Isaac Asimov" through 1981, a brief "Select List of Works about Isaac Asimov," and a useful index. Text handles in detail the Foundation trilogy and Asimov's robot stories and novels, and places Asimov and his work into the context of 20th-c. S. F. See in this Category additional entries for JG.