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. In an appendix to The Early Asimov, the author lists the first sixty stories he wrote in the late 1930s and 1940s, and notes that eleven of them were never sold and were eventually lost. Lester del Rey recommended the collection, noting that, by design and necessity, it contained "stories the author knows are not his best." He described... Asimov's commentary as "so marvelously consistent -- and consistently entertaining.
more
| Author: | Isaac Asimov |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Speculative fiction |
| Year published: | 1972 |
| Number of editions: | 13 |