Introduction (The Up-to-Date Sorcerer)
| First published | October 1971 |
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| Type | Essay |
| Series | Asimov's Essays: Own Work |
This essay is untitled above the work. Any titled versions should be varianted.
Essay starts: "I have frequently (rather to my own uneasy surprise) been accused of writing humorously." Essay finishes: "It is not essential to read Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer first, but it would make my story funnier if you did (I think), and I would like to give it every break."
"First appearance – The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1958 ©, 1958, by Mercury Press, Inc."
[ July 1958. ©, ] in Nightfall Two.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1971 |
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Nightfall Two | Panther / Granada | Collection | 129 |
| December 1984 |
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Nightfall and Other Stories | Del Rey / Ballantine | Collection | |289 |
| July 1991 |
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Nightfall and Other Stories | Grafton / HarperCollinsPublishers | Collection | 370 |