nickname “The Great Explainer.”Isaac Asimov died of "heart and kidney failure, which were complications of the HIV infection on 6 April 1992.HIV was not revealed as the cause of his death until 2002,when his widow Janet published the memoirs It's Been a Good Life.nickname “The Great Explainer.” Isaac Asimov died of “heart and kidney failure, which were complications of the HIV________” on 6 April 1992. HIV was not _______as the cause of his death until 2002, when his widow Janet published the memoirs It's Been a Good Life. infection revealed