The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire

…He started writing science fiction while he was still a student, and in Japan, his works became widely read in the mid-1950s. He is known for his robot stories (I, Robot, The City of Steel, etc.) based on the three laws of robotics that he compiled with the advice of JW Campbell, editor-in-chief of Astounding magazine, his futuristic epics such as the Foundation series (The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire), which is reminiscent of E. Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and his witty author introduction in the collection of the winners of the traditional Hugo Award, which is awarded at the World Science Fiction Convention by fan vote. However, a large part of his more than 200 books are educational guidebooks covering a wide range of fields, including mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, and history. He also showed an interest in mysteries (such as The Society of Black Widows), and some of his science fiction works show this tendency. …

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…在学中からSFを書きはじめ，日本では50年代中ごろから広く読まれるようになった。《アスタウンディング》誌の編集長J.W.キャンベルの助言によってまとめたロボット工学の三原則に基づくロボット物(《わたしはロボット》《鋼鉄都市》など)や，E.ギボンの《ローマ帝国衰亡史》を思わせるファウンデーション･シリーズ(《銀河帝国の興亡》)などの未来叙事詩，ファン投票により世界SF大会で授与される伝統ある〈ヒューゴー賞〉の受賞作品集における機知にあふれた著者紹介などにより知られているが，200冊を超える著作のかなりの部分を，数学，物理学，天文学，化学，生物学，歴史など幅広い分野にわたる啓蒙解説書が占める。また，ミステリー(《黒後家蜘蛛の会》など)にも意欲を示し，SFの中にもその傾向がみられるものがある。…

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