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Introduction (What Is This Thing Called Love?)

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: "This one is complicated." Essay finishes: "Mr Conklin was delighted and so was I, and that is the title that he used, and the one that I am now using."

"First appearance – Amazing Stories, March 1961, under the title 'Playboy and the Slime God'. Copyright © 1961, by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company."

[ 'Playboy and the Slime God.' ] in Nightfall Two.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1971 Cover Nightfall Two Panther / Granada Collection 154
December 1984 Cover Nightfall and Other Stories Del Rey / Ballantine Collection |313
July 1991 Cover Nightfall and Other Stories Grafton / HarperCollinsPublishers Collection 400