The Early Asimov Or Eleven Years of Trying
Isaac Asimov
Language: English
Pages: 571
ISBN: B001J2PTJA
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying is a 1972 collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov. Each story is accompanied by commentary by the author, who gives details about his life and his literary achievements in the period in which he wrote the story.
"The Callistan Menace" (1940)
"Ring Around the Sun" (1940)
"The Magnificent Possession" (1940)
"Trends" (1939)
"The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use" (1939)
"Black Friar of the Flame" (1942)
"Half-Breed" (1940)
"The Secret Sense" (1941)
"Homo Sol" (1940)
"Half-Breeds on Venus" (1940)
"The Imaginary" (1942)
"Heredity" (1941)
"History" (1941)
"Christmas on Ganymede" (1942)
"The Little Man on the Subway" (1950)
"The Hazing" (1942)
"Super-Neutron" (1941)
"Not Final!" (1941)
"Legal Rites" (1950)
"Time Pussy" (1942)
"Author! Author!" (1964)
"Death Sentence" (1943)
"Blind Alley" (1945)
"No Connection" (1948)
"The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" (1948)
"The Red Queen's Race" (1949)
"Mother Earth" (1949)
as aluminum, if not more so, and yet it looks more like gold than gold does itself. Do you see the possibilities?” “Do I?” exploded Taylor. “It will sweep the country. You can have ammonium jewelry, and ammonium-plated tableware, and a million other things. Then again, who knows how many countless industrial applications it may have? You’re rich, Walt-you’re rich.” “We’re rich,” corrected Sills gently. He moved towards the telephone, “The newspapers are going to hear of this. I’m going to begin
to him. He might like to. I can’t honestly say he’s fascinated by archaeology.” Raph picked up a recording at random and looked at the identification tag: “Um-m-m-from the Joquin Valley Grouping. That’s a long way from here.” “A long way... The Recorder nodded. “I have sent them some of ours, of course. The works of our own Grouping are highly regarded throughout the continent,” he said, with proprietary pride. “In fact”-he pointed the stem of his pipe at the other-”your own treatise on extinct
his ‘De Rerum Natura,’-‘On the Nature of Things’-elaborated on that theory and throughout manages to sound startlingly modem. “In Hellenistic times, Hero built a steam engine and weapons of war became almost mechanized. The period has been referred to as an abortive mechanical age, which came to nothing because, somehow, it neither grew out of nor fitted into its social and economic milieu. Alexandrian science was a queer and rather inexplicable phenomenon. “Then one might mention the old Roman
and stood up, his underlip thrust out in a pout, “I’m lonely, that’s all.” Scanlon’s face fell, and he felt at an uncomfortable loss for words. “I guess I know that. Max,” he said softly, at length. “I’m sorry for you, but the conditions-are so-” Max relented, and brightening up, placed an affectionate arm about his foster-father’s shoulder, “I didn’t mean it that way, you know. It’s just-well, I can’t say it but it’s that-you get to wishing you had someone your own age to talk to- someone of
that.) My treatment of atomic power was also primitive in the extreme, and I knew better than that, too, even though at the time I wrote the story, uranium fission had not been discovered. The Tweenie’s mysterious reference to “a function of x2 plus y2 plus z2” merely means that I had taken analytic geometry at Columbia not long before and was flaunting my knowledge of the equation for the sphere. This was the first story in which I tried to introduce the romantic motif, however light. It had