The Martian Way and Other Stories
by:
Isaac Asimov (author)
This collection of four famous science fiction tales masterfully exemplifies author Isaac Asimov's ability to create quickly a believable human milieu in the midst of alien circumstances. Each of the long stores also shows his considerable skill in fully fleshing out a speculative scientific or...
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This collection of four famous science fiction tales masterfully exemplifies author Isaac Asimov's ability to create quickly a believable human milieu in the midst of alien circumstances. Each of the long stores also shows his considerable skill in fully fleshing out a speculative scientific or social possibility.Contents:The Martian Way (1952)Youth (1952)The Deep (1952)Su
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Pages no: 159
Edition language: English
Isaac Asimov is one of my favorite science fiction authors. Some of his novels and story collections I've ranked five stars as simply amazing. Not in style or characterizations--but in ideas. Asimov's style I'd call decent--workmanlike. It's well-crafted but you don't linger over the prose as this t...
The Genevan Way, a short story inspired by Isaac Asimov and some real events"Oh fuck!!" wailed Not. "Our shower has no hot water again!""Don't worry," I said, and quickly assembled an anti-gravity device out of some spare parts we'd just acquired from a CERN friend who was moving house. Pausing only...