Death of Isaac Asimov
Writer of famous science fiction stories, married twice, Azimov was a pathetic end in a painful agony due to the culinary excesses to which he devoted to its last years.
A brave man
In his memoirs, Asimov said that his colleague,
Frederic Pohl and he was is often retrieved on the Brooklyn Bridge to discuss
their projects. It was only later that Pohl confessed him that it was because of his wife who was pushing Asimov.
With age, Asimov has become more appreciated and considered a brave little man.
A turning point in his life
The shenanigans of his colleagues have resulted to be excluded from his professorship. He then decided to devote, ill will, to the writing career. His professor salary and routine at the University was perfectly suitable to him.
But success came quickly and he won ten times more as author, then became rich.
Thus it is sometimes necessary that you undergoes some violence.
The author
He was a "safe" author. With a
very ordinary but always perfectly clear writing style, with stories rather intelligent,
rarely exciting but not poor, we know that he would never fall on a
turnip, it was a true storyteller putting ideas into stories and not one
of these parasites who write to purge their minds of the garbage that
invades it.
Its success is due to his stories of robots and the cycle of the foundation.
News
Unlike Dick, Asimov was very little worn in movies. But things are changing. Twenty years after his death, the cycle Foundation will become a saga film, prepared by Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne.
In addition, New Agency has acquired the right to the novel The end of eternity, a story of time travel, which will also be transposed to movies by producers Vince Gerard and Eli Kirschner.
The movie I Robot is also inspired by his stories of robots.
On 29 November 2008.
An anecdote
Asimov was someone smart, which makes this story more comical.
He used to write
on a TRS-80 that had been given by a company for promotional and after
much reluctance to abandon his typewriter to try to control the
device, he no longer wanted to use anything else to type his stories .
One day, he put the computer on and nothing happened. The screen stayed black.
He called the technician. The guy came
and simply turn on the the computer, then left, leaving the
writer as stupid while facing the machine with a blinking cursor as
accustomed to.
Abuses
In 1984 he suffered water retention. His kidneys were damaged by a previous operation. Although salt promotes water
retention, he never tires of savoring salt in meat: anchovies, salmon,
herring, bacon, and continue to add salt in food...
His ankles were swollen, his legs soon resemble two poles. After a stay in hospital, and use of diuretics, he lost 9 kilograms and it shows with legs become thin like a gazelle.
And the end
Asimov hoped to live as old as his father and finish his days pleasantly typing on the keyboard of his computer, the TRS-80...
But Asimov was not a robot, and nobody could do him violence to stick to a more sober food.
In 1989, the situation is deteriorating. On hospitalization, it makes the wall to go to receptions. But his forces dropped more often. He published "Asimov laughed again." But he can not type, he must dictate his books. Hospitalization succeed.
Kidney failure was due to him and he died at 72 years.