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Alec Nevala-Lee

Alec Nevala-Lee

Alec Nevala-Lee was a 2019 Hugo Award finalist for Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (Dey Street, 2018), which was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Economist. He is currently at work on a biography of the architectural designer Buckminster Fuller. icon

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Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall

By Alec Nevala-Lee

Isaac Asimov loved large numbers. He was born a century ago this month, and when he died, in 1992, he was both the most famous science fiction writer in the ...

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