Asimov's last major interview, in which he talks about robots and robotics, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, deep space travel, terraforming planets, artificial intelligence, and the origins of the universe.
A game based on the worlds of The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun, the players watch the tape and uncover each of the six photo clue cards at selected points in the story. At the end of the tape, each player makes an accusation based on the clues provided. Each clue card has two sides with different clues on each side, providing 32 possible outcomes to the game. Clue cards are provided for four levels of difficulty; suggested for 1 to 12 players, ages 10 and up.
A simulated video voyage through the Solar System, combining NASA and JPL images from the Voyager space probe with a digitized recording of Holst's "The Planets", with Isaac Asimov as host and narrator. Includes a full color NASA brochure about the planets, and a space almanac listing solar and lunar eclipses, occultations, and periodic comets.
The entire text of the book, including features allowing the reader to search for every occurrence of any word, add margin comments and end notes, highlight text, mark pages and leave bookmarks.
The entire text of the book, including features allowing the reader to search for every occurrence of any word, add margin comments and end notes, highlight text, mark pages and leave bookmarks.
A virtual science museum with over 150 rooms, with over 1000 illustrated, interactive, and interlinked articles by Isaac Asimov, adapted from Isaac Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery.
A graphic adventure with a robot storyline which is not in the least integrated into the universe of the novels.
Contains the text of all of Asimov's major stories and essays about robots; illustrations of Asimov's robots by Ralph McQuarrie (production designer of Star Wars); an interactive robot toolkit for building animated robots; photos of many Asimov book covers; a collection of photos of Asimov in various settings; Quicktime movies of Asimov interviews and some of his television appearances, Quicktime clips from several motion pictures featuring robots, including Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Forbidden Planet; videos of real robots used in space, undersea, offices, and labs; an animated handbook on robot movement; and a timeline of robotic history.
A text adventure released in 1986 which is well integrated into the world of the novels.
A science education CD-ROM based on the "Ask Isaac Asimov" series published by Gareth Stevens Inc. It features Asimov (actually, an actor portraying Asimov) appearing as a "holographic guide" in the Imperial Library on Trantor, guiding the visitor to five different Experimental Worlds, where Asimov engages in conversations with some of the great astronomers of history. A "hands-on learning adventure", each Experimental World includes an interactive experiment that teaches a principle of science. Includes glossaries, indexes, and the complete text from five books of the Gareth Stevens "Ask Isaac Asimov" series:
Based on the Gareth Stevens series "Isaac Asimov's Library of the Universe", and contains more than 2,400 images, 255 minutes of feature presentations, questions and answers, interactive quizzes, customized glossaries, free Webster's New World Dictionary, and free American Concise Encyclopedia.
Consists of 7 CD-ROMS, corresponding to Gareth Stevens titles as follows:
An adventure game based on Isaac Asimov's Robot City, in which the player is the prime suspect when a human robotics expert has been murdered once a secret experiment has gone wrong. The player must elude hunter robots in a chase through a 3-D environment, and find the real killer in order to save Robot City.
A game of stellar cargo transportation with little relation to Asimov.
A trivia game based on Ken Fisher's Superquiz books. Cards contain 5760 general knowledge questions with answers, in three levels of difficulty, and six categories: sports, history, science, geography, words, and movies. A pad of score sheets is included.
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