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HOSPITALIZED. Isaac Asimov, 63, sci-fi and nonfiction word factory, with 286 books to his credit and 14 more at his publishers; resting comfortably after triple-bypass heart surgery; in New York City...
...Robots of Dawn, Asimov...
...literature are available for about a dollar. The softcover books are wallet-size and encased at the store with a protective paper wrapper. About 10% of those volumes are titles originally published in English, German, French and Italian. Tolstoy's novels have been available for nine decades; Isaac Asimov's Foundation's Edge is now being prepared. "The number of translations is on the rise," says Hiroshi Hayakawa, an executive with the nation's major foreign book publisher. "The trouble is, you can never tell which book will become a bestseller in Japan. A popular novel...
Inoue, who first established himself as a TV script and gag writer, combines the fecundity of Isaac Asimov, the antic regionalism of Erskine Caldwell and the solemn dedication of Inoue Proust. A lapsed Catholic, Inoue works in a monkish annex that he calls "the cockpit," next to his vast and growing collection of books. Except for dinner breaks with his wife of 21 years, he shuns company. "The world of imagination is my reality," he says. "I haven't left this house in a month." He refuses to attend parties, to undertake book tours or appear on TV interview...
Campus political voices, too, proliferated in print this year. The Economic Review published once, the Political Review published four times, and the International Review put out seven issues, including in its last magazine an article by consumer advocate Ralph Nader and an interview with science fiction author Isaac Asimov...