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Introduction (Unto the Fourth Generation)

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: "Not long after the appearance of 'The Up-to-date Sorcerer,' Mr Boucher retired as editor of F & SF, and was succeeded in the post by Robert P. Mills." Essay finishes: "And I made Mr Mills' remark about Lefkowitz become 'Unto the Fourth Generation'."

"First appearance – The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1959. ©, 1959 by Mercury Press, Inc."

[ 'The Up-to-Date Sorcerer,' ] in Nightfall Two.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1971 Cover Nightfall Two Panther / Granada Collection 145
December 1984 Cover Nightfall and Other Stories Del Rey / Ballantine Collection |304
July 1991 Cover Nightfall and Other Stories Grafton / HarperCollinsPublishers Collection 389