Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (1920?– 1992), was a Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.

One of his legacies is the science fiction pulp magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, which is still published to this day. Harry Turtledove has published several of his short stories in Asimov's.

Turtledove also wrote the short story "Trantor Falls" in the 1989 anthology Foundation's Friends: Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov, which Asimov edited. The story is set in Asimov's Foundation series. The stories in the Elabon series were also inspired by the Foundation series.

Isaac Asimov in "Hindsight"
In the 1950s, Issac Asimov found a challenger to his title of preeminant science fiction writer in the form of Mark Gordian, who, in the years between 1949 and 1953, had published more fiction than Asimov.