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Introduction (The Machine That Won the War)

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: "Toward the end of the 1950s some rather unexpected changes took place in my life." Essay finishes: " 'The Machine that Won the War' is one of those that serves as my periodic proof to the world of fandom that I am, too, alive."

"First appearance – The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1961. ©, 1961, by Mercury Press Inc."

[ 'The Machine That Won the War' ] in Nightfall Two.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1971 Cover Nightfall Two Panther / Granada Collection 169
December 1984 Cover Nightfall and Other Stories Del Rey / Ballantine Collection |327
July 1991 Cover Nightfall and Other Stories Grafton / HarperCollinsPublishers Collection 418