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2carlym May 20, 2010, 11:33am That is pretty awesome!

3varielle May 20, 2010, 11:45am I don't suppose he had some sort of OCD obsession which caused him to try and tackle Mr. Dewey did he? Is there any other author who can compare with this scope?

4Nickelini May 20, 2010, 11:55am Wow. And I'm equally impressed that you got all the touchstones working. Well done.

6fundevogel May 20, 2010, 1:18pm I don't know how he came to fill every class. I'm guessing it just happened with writing a metric ton of books, a decent percentage of which are non fiction. It seems like a lot of his books were compiled later from essays he wrote for magazines (probably with a lot of overlap) and I suspect there are a fair number of children's books in his repertoire. The thing is there are still well over 1000 books on his Library Thing page. It's hard to imagine one person writing so much, even when you account for collections and childrens books. It makes me wonder if he had a lot of assistance.

7lorax May 20, 2010, 1:22pm fundevogel, Asimov's LT page includes a huge number of short stories, including some uncombined translations; a number of anthologies he edited; lots of overlapping anthologies; and probably some individually-listed non-fiction essays, as well. Prolific, but not as much so as you'd think if you naively assumed all the entries to be distinct book-length works.

8fundevogel May 20, 2010, 1:27pm I remember the short works, I just forgot to mention them. It's still a staggering number of books though. One I still suspect would be very high for any author.

9scout13fox11A Jun 24, 2013, 2:24pm He only covered 9 areas.



The Human Brain doesn't go in the Philosophy section.

11mkboylan Jun 25, 2013, 11:38pm This is such fun!

12quintanar Sep 5, 2014, 3:52pm I don´t see the sciencie fiction series