The uzbekistan state world languages university english faculty II

THE UZBEKISTAN STATE WORLD LANGUAGES UNIVERSITY ENGLISH FACULTY II
DEPARTMENT OF METHODS OF ENGLISH
JAHON TILLARI INGLIZ FILOLOGIYASI
3rd course 2003-group
QURBONIVA MUXLISA
COURSE PAPER
THEME: ISAAC ASIMOV AND SCIENTIFIC FANTASTIC FICTION IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Contents:

INTRODUCTION 3
CHAPTER I. SCIENCE FICTION GENRE. ISAAC ASIMOV - SCIENCE FICTION WRITER 5
1.1. What is science fiction 5
1.2. Biography and creative path of the writer 13
CHAPTER II. ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL "THE END OF ETERNITY" AND OTHER WORKS OF THE WRITER FANTASY ASIMOV SOCIAL CREATIVE 21
2.1. Social issues in the novel "The End of Eternity" 21
2.2. Reviews and reviews of the work "The End of Eternity" 28
2.3. Brief analysis of other works of the writer 36
CONCLUSIONS 42
BIBLIOGRAPHY 44

INTRODUCTION

Isaac Asimov (eng. Isaac Asimov January 2, 1920 - April 6, was an American science fiction writer, popularizer of science, and a biochemist by profession. Author of about 500 books, mostly fiction, primarily in the science fiction genre, but also in other genres:
- fantasy,
- detective,
- popular science genre.
In a variety of fields - from astronomy and genetics to history and literary criticism. Multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner.
Some terms from his works - robotics (robotics, robotics), positronic (positron), psychohistory (psychohistory, the science of the behavior of large groups of people) - have become firmly established in English and other languages. In the Anglo-American literary tradition, Asimov, along with Arthur Clarke and Robert Heinlein, is referred to as the "Big Three" science fiction writers.
The first thing that amazed me in the process of preparing this work was that a significant contribution to the theoretical substantiation of robotics at the stage of its formation was made by people who were completely far from technology and the exact sciences. The word "robot" was introduced by the Czech writer Karel Capek and originally meant: "a machine with anthropomorphic (human-like) behavior, which partially or completely performs the functions of a person when interacting with the outside world."
The science fiction writer, a chemist by education, Isaac Asimov, who for the first time outlined the three laws of robotics in his work, is called by many a robotics theorist. He himself writes the following about this: "I have lived to see the day when my laws are taken seriously and cited in scientific articles by scientists - robotics."