The Martian Way and Other Stories
{{short description|1955 collection of stories by Isaac Asimov}}
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|author = Isaac Asimov
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|cover_artist = Richard Shelton{{Cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?43921|title = Publication: The Martian Way and Other Stories|website = isfdb.org}}
|country = United States
|language = English
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|genre = Science fiction
|publisher = Doubleday
|release_date = 1955
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|media_type = Print (hardback)
|pages = 222
|preceded_by = I, Robot
|followed_by = Earth Is Room Enough
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The Martian Way and Other Stories is a 1955 collection of four science fiction stories (3 novelettes and one novella by American writer Isaac Asimov, previously published in 1952 and 1954. Although single-author story collections generally sell poorly, The Martian Way and Other Stories did well enough that Doubleday science fiction editor Walter I. Bradbury was willing to publish a second collection, Earth Is Room Enough, in 1957.
Contents
- "The Martian Way", novelette
- "Youth", novelette
- "The Deep", novelette
- "Sucker Bait", novella
Reception
Groff Conklin praised the collection as "an excellent introduction to the style and to the imagination of one of science fiction's most important writers.""Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1955, p.112
References
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Sources
- {{cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=22 | year=1974|isbn=0-911682-20-1}}
External links
- [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?43921 The Martian Way and Other Stories] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20040606150615/http://www.transhumanist.com/volume4/space.htm Possible Costs of Terraforming]
- [http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/zubrin.htm Research Paper: Technological Requirements for Terraforming Mars]
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Category:Science fiction short story collections by Isaac Asimov
Category:1955 short story collections
Category:Doubleday (publisher) books
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