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"The Callistan Menace" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the April 1940 issue of Astonishing Stories and was reprinted in the 1972 collection The Early Asimov. It was the second science fiction story written by Asimov, and the oldest story of his still in existence.
In a writing career spanning 53 years (1939–1992), science fiction and popular science author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) wrote and published 40 novels, 383 short stories, over 280 non-fiction books, and edited about 147 others.
Cal is a robot whose master is an author. Cal, under the influence of the latter, decides to learn to write. His master outfits his mind with a dictionary and gives him advice and some books to read.
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November 1988 "Christmas Without Rodney" 1988 Robot Visions: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, mid-December 1988 "The Instability" 1989 Gold: The Observer, 1 January 1989 "Good-bye to Earth" 1989 Gold: Interview, January 1989 "The Last Man" 1989 — Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1989
Callisto is a satellite of Jupiter. The parameters in the equation are [2] Callisto–Jupiter distance (d p) is 1.883 · 10 6 km. Mass of Jupiter (M p) is 1.9 · 10 27 kg; Jupiter–Sun distance (i.e. mean distance of Callisto from the Sun, d s) is 778.3 · 10 6 km. The solar mass (M s) is 1.989 · 10 30 kg
Isaac Asimov (/ ˈ æ z ɪ m ɒ v / AZ-im-ov; [b] [c] c. January 2, 1920 [a] – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke . [ 2 ]
The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying is a 1972 collection of short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.Each story is accompanied by commentary by the author, who gives details about his life and his literary achievements in the period in which he wrote the story, effectively amounting to a sort of autobiography for the years 1938 to 1949.
First edition cover (publ. Doubleday Cover artist: Michael Flanagan. Buy Jupiter and Other Stories is a 1975 collection of short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.Each story is introduced by a short account of how it came to be written and what was happening in Asimov's life at the time, and follows on from where The Early Asimov (1972) left off.