Isaac Asimov
1) Youth
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Pub. Date
2014
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Youth is a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories. Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialist's son, Red, has found two strange animals, and he enlists Slim in a plan to...
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Pub. Date
2020
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The Story of Nuclear Energy: Worlds Within Worlds covers the entire story of nuclear energy from a basic explanation of atomic weights, energy and electricity to nuclear fission, fusion - beyond. First coming to public consciousness as The Bomb that ended World War II, it is now the forefront of our attention as a source of peacetime energy, whether from nuclear power plants or from the sun.
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Foundation series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 22
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At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in...
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Galactic Empire Trilogy volume 1
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The first book in the Galactic Empire series, the spectacular precursor to the classic Foundation series, by one of history’s most influential writers of science fiction, Isaac Asimov
His name was Biron Farrill and he was a student at the University of Earth. A native of one of the helpless Nebular Kingdoms, he saw his home world conquered and controlled by the planet Tyrann—a ruthless, barbaric Empire that was building a dynasty...
His name was Biron Farrill and he was a student at the University of Earth. A native of one of the helpless Nebular Kingdoms, he saw his home world conquered and controlled by the planet Tyrann—a ruthless, barbaric Empire that was building a dynasty...
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Robot series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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An earth plainclothes policeman must work with a robot from another world to solve the murder of a Spacer on earth.
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Robot series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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Earthmen have gone underground to live in overcrowded cities, afraid of the open spaces and scorned by the outer world planets.
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Foundation series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
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So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she ...?
11) I, Robot
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when...
12) Foundation
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Foundation series volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
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One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory,...
15) Mercury
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Pub. Date
2002
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This book describes the planet closest to the sun, examining its size and composition, its surface features, its orbit, and efforts to learn more about this planet.
17) Nightfall
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Kalgash is a world on the edge of chaos, torn between religious fanaticism and scientific rationalism. Their civilization is threatened by Nightfall, the first sunset in over two thousand years
18) Venus
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Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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This book describes some of the various features of the planet Venus and how we have learned what we know.
19) Mars
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Pub. Date
2002
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IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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This book gives a description of Mars, the fourth planet from our sun, which includes information on the controversy over possible life on Mars, on the planet's moons, and on space probes and spacecraft which have studied it.
20) Pluto and Charon
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Pub. Date
2002
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This book introduces the smallest known planet in the solar system as well as its moon.