I fancied Isaac Asimov a lot, and wanted to write. When I was a kid, I wrote a few short stories. They are, unfortunately, very contextual. The jokes can only be understood by those whom the stories were written for. But still, since I’d put in several days of effort…
The world’s funniest joke. The joke deals with a man getting shot. And when I think about it, I can’t phrase is better than Asimov did in Jokester. “The point is,” said Meyerhof, “that I have pictured a husband being humiliated by his wife; a marriage that is such a failure that the wife is convinced that her husband lacks any virtue. Yet you laugh at that. If you were the husband, would you find it funny?”. ...
Asimov’s Foundation was translated into Arabic. Title: Al-Qaeda. The Guardian explores the link between Asimov and bin Laden.
Asimov had AIDS. But because of a by-pass surgery.
Encyclopaedia Galactica. For Asimov fans.