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Introduction (My Son, the Physicist)

Isaac Asimov

First published October 1971
Type Essay


This essay is untitled above the work.

Essay starts: "One of the side effects of the growing respectability of science fiction was that it began to appear in markets where, a few short years earlier, the Sanitation Department would have been called in to remove any such manuscripts that had inadvertently found their way into the editorial office." Essay finishes: "Well, maybe they just had difficulty getting appropriate stories. I don't know."

"First appearance – Scientific American, February 1962. ©, 1962, Hoffman Electronics Corporation."

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1971 Cover Nightfall Two Panther / Granada Collection 176
July 1991 Cover Nightfall and Other Stories Grafton / HarperCollinsPublishers Collection 427