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Interstellar human empire 14,000 years in the future; setting for two novels and a series of short stories collected in The Rediscovery of Man: Isaac's Universe: The Diplomacy Guild: 1990 Isaac Asimov: Invented by Asimov for other science fiction writers to use. Jack Ryan Universe: The Hunt for Red October: 1984 Tom Clancy: Janissaries ...
In a writing career spanning 53 years (1939–1992), science fiction and popular science author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) wrote and published 40 novels, 383 short stories, over 280 non-fiction books, and edited about 147 others.
This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance-era precursors and proto-science fiction as well, as long as these examples include typical science fiction themes and topoi such as travel to outer space and encounter with alien life-forms.
The timeline of the Universe lists events from its creation to its ultimate final state. For a timeline of the universe from the present to its presumed conclusion, see: Timeline of the far future Chronology of the universe
The Firefly universe by Josh Whedon; The Foundation universe of the Robot–Empire–Foundation series, by Isaac Asimov; The Gaean Reach universe by Jack Vance; The Galactic Center Saga universe by Gregory Benford; The Halo universe by Bungie; The Heechee universe by Frederik Pohl; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Universe by Douglas Adams
Author First published in Publication year Notes 2 B R 0 2 B: Kurt Vonnegut: Worlds of If Science Fiction: 1962 2430 A.D. Isaac Asimov: Think (IBM magazine) 1970 A Boy's Best Friend: Isaac Asimov: Boy's Life: 1975 A Braver Thing: Charles Sheffield: Asimov's Science Fiction: 1990 A Cabin on the Coast: Gene Wolfe: The Magazine of Fantasy ...
Books are listed in alphabetical order by title, ignoring the leading articles "A", "An" and "The". Novel series are alphabetical by author-designated name or, if there is none, the title of the first novel in the series or some other reasonable designation.
Many of the most enduring science fiction tropes were established in Golden Age literature. Space opera came to prominence with the works of E. E. "Doc" Smith; Isaac Asimov established the canonical Three Laws of Robotics beginning with the 1941 short story "Runaround"; the same period saw the writing of genre classics such as the Asimov's Foundation and Smith's Lensman series.