[michaelpinto]

Something to keep in mind is that Asimov was very much a product of the age of pulp magazines, so early on in his career he was paid by the word for his work.

A side geek note: If you were active in NYC fandom from say the 50s on chances were very good that you would actually get to see Isaac in person at many local science fiction conventions. For some reason he disliked air travel, and would show up at almost any local convention that he was invited to.

If you want to read a really good book on being a geek from the depression era to about the 50s I would highly recommend reading The Way the Future Was by rederik Pohl.

[mromanuk]

He had fear of flying, I remember reading that in one of his autobiographical books. He was aware of that and wrote a lot about space travel, on the cave of steel he depicted humans as being agarophobic

[teddyh]

That’s “agoraphobic”.

[dannyobrien]

Also good on that topic: The Futurians, by Damon Knight