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Introduction (Green Patches)

Isaac Asimov

First published 1971
Type Essay
Series Asimov's Essays: Own Work


This essay is untitled above the work. Any titled versions should be varianted.

Essay starts: "In 1948, I woke up one morning to read in the New York Times that Street & Smith Publications had discontinued all its pulp magazines." Essay finishes: "I have been waiting eighteen years for a chance."

"First appearance – Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1950, under the title 'Misbegotten Missionary', Copyright, 1950, by World Editions, Inc."

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1971 Cover Nightfall One Panther Collection 46
1973 Cover Nightfall One Panther / Granada Collection 46
1974 Cover Nightfall One Panther Collection 46
1976 Cover Nightfall One Panther Collection 46
1978 Cover Nightfall One Granada Collection 46
1979 Cover Nightfall One Granada Collection 46
1981 Cover Nightfall One Panther / Granada Collection 46
December 1984 Cover Nightfall and Other Stories Del Rey / Ballantine Collection |44
1986 Cover Nightfall One Grafton Collection 46
July 1991 Cover Nightfall and Other Stories Grafton / HarperCollinsPublishers Collection 55