![]() ![]() When Word War II began in 1939, America took an isolationist stance. Rightly acknowledged as a master of science-fiction, Isaac's childhood was nevertheless grounded in mysteries, much of his time spent purloining his father's forbidden copies of The Shadow, which, according to Asimov, his father insisted he read because, 'he needed to learn English, whereas I had school - and what a rotten reason I thought that was.' In 1923, the family emigrated to the United States, settling in Brooklyn, New York where Isaac became a U.S. Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia, on 2nd January 1920. ![]() Like all the best fiction, The Black Widowers are based on fact, a real-life organisation called The Trap-Door Spiders, of which Asimov was a member. To redress this balance, we celebrate possibly his most popular sleuths - The Black Widowers. ISAAC ASIMOV is one of the greatest science-fiction writers of the 20th Century but his role as an acclaimed mystery writer is often overlooked. ![]()
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