Asimov, Isaac

Discusses the possiblity of life on other planets and explains how scientists are exploring this possibility.

Presents a variety of astronomy projects, including creative writing and drawing assignments, modelmaking, sky observation, and experiments.

Considers how stars come into being, change and grow older, and eventually come to an end.

In 1949, sixty-two-year-old Joseph Schwartz, a retired tailor, is accidentally transported to the future--where Earth is one of the two hundred million planets that form the Galactic Empire and humans are discriminated against and killed at sixty--and becomes involved in a plot to use a supervirus to kill the other inhabitants of the empire.

Five people are miniaturized and sent on a rescue mission through a man's body where they have sixty minutes to reach and break up a blood clot in his brain.

Contains a collection of fifty science fiction short stories, including work by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Theodore Sturgeon, and Robert Heinlein, among others.

A collection of forty-eight science fiction stories by Isaac Asimov.

Stasis Technologies, Ltd. plucks a Neanderthal child off the prehistoric tundra and transports it into the twenty-first century. His assigned nurse develops a caring bond with the boy and attempts to travel back in time with him to help him rejoin his tribe.

Contains excerpts from the autobiographies of science fiction author Isaac Asimov in which he reflects on his life and career, and includes comments from his wife, Janet, written ten years after his death.