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The stories were selected by Isaac Asimov and the main selection criterion was the degree to which they influenced young Asimov when he was growing up in the 1930s. The prefatory material and individual introductions to the stories fill in the details about the early life of the Child Prodigy , which effectively makes the volume a first stab at an autobiography. Asimov eventually published a number of autobiographical volumes starting with '' In Memory Yet Green ''. The stories collected in the anthology, although they range in quality from embarrassing to very good, are of a kind rarely anthologized and provide a unique historical and cultural retrospective of the genre. The anthology was first published as a large hardcover in 1974 and re-issued as two smaller paperbacks the following year. As of 2006, it is out of print. |
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