Asimov Selección. Tomo 02 by Isaac Asimov

Asimov Selección. Tomo 02 (edition 1980)

by Isaac Asimov, Baldomero Porta (Translator), María Teresa Segur (Translator)

Series: Early Asimov (Part 2 of 3)

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Title:	Asimov Selección. Tomo 02
Authors:	Isaac Asimov
Other authors:	Baldomero Porta (Translator), María Teresa Segur (Translator)
Info:	Barcelona Bruguera 1980
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The Early Asimov: Volume 2 (of 3) by Isaac Asimov

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miroobil | Nov 20, 2015 |

This second of three books detailing Asimov's early short stories. The majority of stories in this instalment come from the early 1940's, and unlike volume one, the quality of the stories aren't too bad on the whole. This is demonstrates well how he was improving as a writer.

Again Asimov provides his own commentary on how each story came about and where it was published, which will be of interest to his fans and students of sci-fi literary history. A couple of the works aren't really sci-fi (more fantasy/ghost stories) but the quality makes up for that.

Far better than volume 1 for normal SF readers though... makes volume 3 more of something to look forward to reading rather than dreading.

jimll | Dec 31, 2013 |

A bit better than the first volume; if nothing else, Asimov had matured slightly as a writer and as a person. The stories here are still mostly forgettable with an occasional shower of awful, but "Christmas on Ganymede" is partly funny, "The Little Man on the Subway" is OK, and "Legal Rites" is actually quite good.

Still, much of this collection is pulpy rubbish; Isaac himself admitted as much. (

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Bruna Science Fiction (70)

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The Early Asimov: Volume 2 (of 3)

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The Early Asimov: Volume 2

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1972 (collection)

1942 (Christmas on Ganymede)

1940 (Half-Breeds on Venus)

1942 (The Hazing)

1941 (Heredity)

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To the memory of John Wood Campbell, Jr. (1910-1971) for reasons that this book will make amply obvious

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The summer of 1939 was full of doubts and uncertainty for me.

Introduction.

Olaf Johnson hummed nasally to himself and his china-blue eyes were dreamy as he surveyed the stately fir tree in the corner of the library.

Christmas on Ganymede.

The seven thousand and fifty-fourth session of the Galactic Congress sat in solemn conclave in the vast semicircular hall on Eon, second planet of Arcturus.

Homo Sol (the first story in the Panther Science Fiction volume).

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The full work of The Early Asimov was published in English as a 3 volume set (Volume 1, 2, 3 [Panther, Doubleday, Granada]) and a two book set (Book One, Book Two [Fawcett/Crest, Del Rey]). The Dutch version was a three volume set broken down by years. The French and Italian versions were broken into 4 volumes, but it is unclear whether these versions contain the same stories per volume. As such, none of these should be mixed with each other nor should they be combined with the greater whole work. See http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cg...

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A ghost sues for the legal right to haunt a house...a new world is discovered, inhabited by robots, & only by robots...& the author of the famous Reginald de Meister detective series finds he has a new rival in love: Reginald de Meister.

Contents

9 • Introduction (The Early Asimov Volume 2) • (1973) • essay by Isaac Asimov
13 • Homo Sol • [Homo Sol • 1] • (1940) • short story by Isaac Asimov
35 • Half-Breeds on Venus • [Half-Breed • 2] • (1940) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
61 • The Imaginary • [Homo Sol • 2] • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov
79 • Heredity • (1941) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
105 • History • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
119 • Christmas on Ganymede • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov
135 • The Little Man on the Subway • (1950) • short story by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl [as by Isaac Asimov and James MacCreigh]
148 • The Hazing • [Homo Sol • 3] • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov
165 • Super-Neutron • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
180 • Not Final! • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
199 • Legal Rites • (1950) • novelette by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl [as by Isaac Asimov and James MacCreigh]
231 • Time Pussy • [Probability Zero] • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov
235 • Appendix -- The Sixty Stories of the Campbell Years • (1973) • essay by uncredited

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