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Introduction (Sally)

Isaac Asimov

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


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

Essay starts: "As long as I mentioned the parlor psychoanalyst in the introduction to 'What If – ', I may as well go on to those fellows who analyze stories in Freudian fashion." Essay finishes: "It was all carefully and deliberately inserted by my conscious mind, because I wanted to."

"First appearance – Fantastic, May–June, 1953. Copyright, 1953, by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company."

[ 'What If –,' ] in Nightfall Two.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1971 Cover Nightfall Two Panther / Granada Collection 48
December 1984 Cover Nightfall and Other Stories Del Rey / Ballantine Collection |210
July 1991 Cover Nightfall and Other Stories Grafton / HarperCollinsPublishers Collection 270