- Fiction, Fiction in English, Kurzgeschichte, American Science Fiction
The barren crust of Mercury lay covered by a network of wire designed to harness the dazzling blaze of the sun and send it sizzling through hyperspace.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Moewig, New American Liibrary
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780449234921
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“Lucky Starr und sein kleiner Freund John Bigman Jones folgten dem jungen Ingenieur über die Rampe hinauf zur Luftschleuse, die zur Oberfläche des Pla- neten Merkur führte.”
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942
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