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"The Fun They Had" is a science fiction story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in a children's newspaper in 1951 and was reprinted in the February 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , Earth Is Room Enough (1957), 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1960), and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973).
"Marooned off Vesta" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was the third story he wrote, and the first to be published. [1] Written in July 1938 when Asimov was 18, it was rejected by Astounding Science Fiction in August, then accepted in October by Amazing Stories, appearing in the March 1939 issue.
The Naked Sun is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the second in his Robot series.Like its predecessor, The Caves of Steel, this is a whodunit story. . It was first published in book form in 1957 after being serialized in Astounding Science Fiction between October and December 19
The Indian Botanical Society honoured him with the Birbal Sahni Medal in 1958. [10] He was the General President-elect of the Indian Science Congress Association for 1968, a role he could not fulfil on account of his untimely death on 18 May 1966. It was typical of him that he did not disclose this even to his family members, who learned it ...
Trey and Patru — class A or F main sequence stars, described as "white", a binary star system; Tano and Sitha — class A, B, or O main sequence stars, described as "blue", a binary star system; From what can be drawn from the text, Onos, the star appearing brightest and largest in Lagash's sky, is the star that Lagash orbits.
"The Dead Past" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in the April 1956 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It was later collected in Earth Is Room Enough (1957) and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), and adapted into an episode of the science-fiction television series Out of the Unknown.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
"Let's Have Fun" is a science fiction short story by L. Sprague de Camp.It was first published in the magazine Science Fiction Quarterly for May, 1957. [1] [2] It first appeared in book form in the collection A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (Doubleday, 1963), [1] [2] and afterwards appeared in the anthology Rare Science Fiction (Belmont, 1963).