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To the memory of
John Wood CampbeU, Jr. (1910-71)
for reasons that this book will make amply obvious

Although I have written over a hundred and twenty books, on
almost every subject from astronomy to Shakespeare and from
mathematics to satire, it is probably as a science fiction writer
that I am best known.

I began as a science fiction writer, and for the first eleven
years of my literary career I wrote nothing but science fiction
stories, for magazine publication onlyЧand for minute pay-
ment. The thought of actually publishing honest-to-goodness
books never entered my essentially humble mind.

But the time came when I did begin to produce books, and
then I began to gather together the material I had earlier
written for magazines. Between 1950 and 1969, ten collec-
tions appeared (all of which were published by Doubleday).
These contained eighty-five stories (plus four pieces of comic
verse) originally intended for, and published in, the science
fiction magazines. Nearly a quarter of them came from those
first eleven years.

For the record, these books are:

i, ROBOT (1950)

FOUNDATION (1951)

FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE (1952)

SECOND FOUNDATION (1953)

THE MARTIAN WAY AND OTHER STORIES (1955)

EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH (1957)

NINE TOMORROWS (1959)

THE REST OF THE ROBOTS (1964)

ASIMOV'S MYSTERIES (1968)

NIGHTFALL AND OTHER STORIES (1969)

THE EARLY ASIMOV

It might be argued that this was quite enough, but in argu-
ing so, one is omitting the ravenous appetites of my readers