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Название книги: Foundation and Earth
Автор(ы): Isaac Asimov
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Foundation-and-Earth-199180.html
The Story Behind the Foundation
ON August 1, 1941, when I was a lad of twenty-one, I was a graduate student in chemistry at Columbia University and had been writing science fiction professionally for three years. I was hastening to see John Campbell, editor of Astounding, to whom I had sold five stories by then. I was anxious to tell him a new idea I had for a science fiction story.
It was to write a historical novel of the future; to tell the story of the fall of the Galactic Empire. My enthusiasm must have been catching, for Campbell grew as excited as I was. He didn't want me to write a single story. He wanted a series of stories, in which the full history of the thousand years of turmoil between the fall of the First Galactic Empire and the rise of the Second Galactic Empire was to be outlined. It would all be illuminated by the science of "psychohistory" that Campbell and I thrashed out between us.
The first story appeared in the May 1942 Astounding and the second story appeared in the
Название книги: Foundation and Earth
Автор(ы): Isaac Asimov
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Foundation-and-Earth-199180.html
The Story Behind the Foundation
ON August 1, 1941, when I was a lad of twenty-one, I was a graduate student in chemistry at Columbia University and had been writing science fiction professionally for three years. I was hastening to see John Campbell, editor of Astounding, to whom I had sold five stories by then. I was anxious to tell him a new idea I had for a science fiction story.
It was to write a historical novel of the future; to tell the story of the fall of the Galactic Empire. My enthusiasm must have been catching, for Campbell grew as excited as I was. He didn't want me to write a single story. He wanted a series of stories, in which the full history of the thousand years of turmoil between the fall of the First Galactic Empire and the rise of the Second Galactic Empire was to be outlined. It would all be illuminated by the science of "psychohistory" that Campbell and I thrashed out between us.
The first story appeared in the May 1942 Astounding and the second story appeared in the
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