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Asimov (1920-1992) was one of the three most influential authors of hard science fiction during his lifetime, along with Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He was born in Russia to mother Anna Rachel Berman Asimov and father Judah Asimov, whose love of Russian literature and Yiddish stories in particular contributed to his son's early fondness for reading. Teachers recall young Isaac devouring books as quickly as he could get his hands on them. As an adult, Asimov majored in chemistry in university, and later spent time in the military, at the US Naval Air Experimental Station. Both of those facts make Asimov's eventual niche as a celebrated science fiction author unsurprising. Whether Asimov's claustrophilia - or love of small, enclosed spaces - was of benefit to him throughout his career remains unreported but intriguing.