{"id":183,"date":"2008-01-02T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/isaac-asimov-author-of-mystery-books.html"},"modified":"2008-01-02T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T15:51:00","slug":"isaac-asimov-author-of-mystery-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/isaac-asimov-author-of-mystery-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Asimov&#8230;. Author of Mystery Books (!?!?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader of the Cozy Mystery site just wrote to me with a suggested author who I really hadn&#8217;t thought about adding to the site. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Isaac-Asimov.html\">Isaac Asimov<\/a> is so well known for his science fiction books that whenever I see his name on a mystery book list of any sort, I am surprised.<\/p>\n<p>I remember seeing many of the Asimov&#8217;s science fiction novels lying around the house throughout the years. My son has a particular interest in science fiction, and&nbsp;Asimov is one of the great SciFi authors of all time.&nbsp;Because I am used to seeing his science fiction novels, I am always surprised when reminded that he&nbsp;also wrote mysteries (among other book genres!)<\/p>\n<p>When I was researching Asimov for the little blurp that I try to add on the alphabetized authors pages, I was not surprised to see that Asimov was a member of the Mensa International, along with being a biochemistry professor.&nbsp;I already knew that he was an exceptionally gifted man. But, while reading Charlotte MacLeod&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0445409207\/ref=nosim\/httpwwwmarkes-20\">Misteltoe Mysteries<\/a> this season, I&nbsp;was surprised to see Asimov&#8217;s &quot;<em>Ho! Ho! Ho<\/em>!&quot;&nbsp;listed as one of the stories included in the book&#8230; even though I have seen his name on the table of contents of several mystery anthologies. It&#8217;s funny how we are conditioned to expect (and accept) certain things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader of the Cozy Mystery site just wrote to me with a suggested author who I really hadn&#8217;t thought about adding to the site. Isaac Asimov is so well known for his science fiction books that whenever I see his name on a mystery book list of any sort, I am surprised. I remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-2X","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}