This is part of a three volume collection, it seems, and here is what Asimov stars his introduction with, talking about the early forties :-

"After 'Time Pussy'* there followed a two-month period during which I wrote nothing.
The reasons were twofold. In the first place, Pearl Harbor put the United States in the war the day I wrote Time Pussy,' and thos
debacle were too dis-astrous and heartbreaking to allow much in the way of fiction composing.
If that in itself weren't enough, the time had come to try, once again, the qualifying examinations that would, or would not, grant me
very much felt my-self to be dangling over the abyss. A second failure to pass would probably mean an end for me at Columbia. C
hours when I wasn't working in my father's candy store or hanging over the radio, I had to be studying. There was time for nothing else
Hedging my bets rather desperately, I registered for graduate work at New York University, just in case I did not pass once again
examinations, at the end of January 1942, I actually attended a few classes at N.Y.U. while waiting for the results to be announced
suspense. On Friday, the thirteenth of February, the results were announced. I had passed, this time."

Early Asimov 3 : Author! Author! - Isaac Asimov
Early Asimov 3 : Death Sentence - Isaac Asimov
Early Asimov 3 : Blind Alley - Isaac Asimov
Early Asimov 3 : No Connection - Isaac Asimov
Early Asimov 3 : The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline - Isaac Asimov
Early Asimov 3 : The Red Queen's Race - Isaac Asimov
Early Asimov 3 : Mother Earth - Isaac Asimov

Mystery character life.

3.5 out of 5

Robot world experiment.

3 out of 5

Trinket exchange empathy escape.

4 out of 5

Monkey people maladjustment.

3 out of 5

Chemical time properties.

3 out of 5

Atomic energy time depletion.

3 out of 5

Problems fitting in.

3 out of 5




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