艾薩剋·阿西莫夫（Isaac Asimov，1920—1992），享譽全球的美國科普巨匠和科幻大師，一生齣版瞭480多部著作，內容涉及自然科學、社會科學和文學藝術等許多領域，在世界各國擁有廣泛的讀者。他本人則被譽為“百科全書式的科普作傢”、“這個時代的偉大闡釋者”和“有史以來最傑齣的科學教育傢”。

阿西莫夫創造瞭奇跡，他的一生也是一個傳奇。他的職業是寫作，他的“業餘愛好”還是寫作。寫作就是他的生命。1985年，在迴答法國《解放》雜誌的提問“您為什麼寫作？”時，阿西莫夫答道：“我寫作的原因，如同呼吸一樣；因為如果不這樣做，我就會死去。”

阿西莫夫“一直夢想著自己能在工作中死去，臉埋在鍵盤上，鼻子夾在打字鍵中”，可這種情形並沒有發生在他身上。生前他曾錶示，他不相信有來世。但韆韆萬萬喜愛他的讀者深知，他的偉大事業和他留下的寶貴遺産，已經讓他獲得瞭永生。

Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname "the Great Explainer." I. Asimov is his personal story--vivid, open, and honest--as only Asimov himself could tell it.

Here is the story of the paradoxical genius who wrote of travel to the stars yet refused to fly in airplanes; who imagined alien universes and vast galactic civilizations while staying home to write; who compulsively authored more than 470 books yet still found the time to share his ideas with some of the great minds of our century.

Here are his wide-ranging thoughts and sharp-eyed observations on everything from religion to politics, love and divorce, friendship and Hollywood, fame and mortality. Here, too, is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the varied personalities--Campbell, Ellison, Heinlein, Clarke, del Rey, Silverberg, and others--who along with Asimov helped shape science fiction.

As unique and irrepressible as the man himself, I. Asimov is the candid memoir of an incomparable talent who entertained readers for nearly half a century and whose work will surely endure into the future he so vividly envisioned.