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Introduction (The Up-to-Date Sorcerer)

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: "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 Cover Nightfall Two Panther / Granada Collection 129
December 1984 Cover Nightfall and Other Stories Del Rey / Ballantine Collection |289
July 1991 Cover Nightfall and Other Stories Grafton / HarperCollinsPublishers Collection 370