The Alternate Asimovs - Softcover

Asimov, Isaac

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ISBN 10: 0451450671 ISBN 13: 9780451450678

Publisher: Ace, 1991

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Here are the original versions of some of Asimov's famous works: Grow Old With Me, his first novel, which was greatly expanded at Doubleday's request and published as Pebble in the Sky; the original novella version of his novel The End of Eternity; and the original short story version of Belief and the ending of the final revised novelette version of Belief. (The first two thirds of the story are same in both versions.) Asimov also supplies extensive introductions and afterwords to each story.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Asimov likes to boast that he seldom if ever revises his work, and as testimony to such heedless efficiency there is his mountain of some 300 booksfilled with reams of slapdash writing. It wasn't always so, as this volume of rejected first drafts shows. The story "Belief" is negligible with either of its different endings, but the two other entries are striking for the changes and added characterization that led to the published texts. While one became his weak first novel, Pebble in the Sky (1950), the other novelette was expanded into The End of Eternity (1955), which is arguably the best of his fiction works. Here, the original version is a bare gimmick and outline while the revision dramatizes an idea in a fully developed story. This otherwise inexcusable collection leaves the reader wondering how much better might much of Asimov's other work have been if he'd submitted them to the same process. January 3
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