Reading Isaac Asimov at 100 – TechCrunch

In his recently published book "Astounding," the author Alec Nevala-Lee brings American science fiction's Golden Age back into focus by following four key figures: John W. Campbell, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard -- and Isaac Asimov, who officially turned 100 today (his exact birth date was unknown). Nevala-Lee's warts-and-all portrait paints Asimov -- known to his fans as the Good Doctor -- far more sympathetically than the genre's other founding fathers. But Nevala-Lee is clear about another aspect of Asimov's story: He was someone who unapologetically groped women. As recounted in "Astounding," Judith Merrill said Asimov was known in his younger days as "the man with a hundred hands." Harlan Ellison wrote, "Whenever we walked up the stairs with a young woman, I made sure to walk behind her so Isaac wouldn't grab her tush."