ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION May June 1942 Isaac Asimov 1st FOUNDATION appearance

Description: ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION May and June 1942 FIRST APPEARANCE OF FOUNDATION by Isaac Asimov NY: Street & Smith, 1942. Vol. XXIX, No.3 and No. 4. pulp magazine. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.June cover by Rogers On August 1, 1941, Isaac Asimov proposed to John W. Campbell of Astounding Science Fiction that he write a short story set in a slowly declining Galactic Empire, based on the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Campbell liked the idea, and by the end of a two-hour meeting Asimov planned to write a series of stories depicting the fall of the first Galactic Empire and the rise of the second. Asimov wrote seven more stories for Campbell's magazine over eight years, and they were later collected into three book volumes known as The Foundation Trilogy (1951–1953). Of these, "Foundation" (retitled as "The Encyclopedists" for the book collection) was published in Astounding in May 1942; "Bridle and Saddle" (retitled "The Mayors" for the collection) in June 1942; "The Big and the Little" (retitled "The Traders" for the collection) in August 1944; and "The Wedge" (retitled "The Merchant Princes" for the collection) in October 1944. Collected as Foundation in 1951 The May issue (which has no covers) begins the Foundation series. Bridle and Saddle (novelette; first appearance of the second "chapter" in the Foundation series) was published in the June issue May issue also has:Asylum by A.E. van VogtThe Push of a Finger by Alfred BesterThe Birth of a Superstition by Willy LeyBeyond This Horizon by Anson MacDonald (Robert A Heinlein pseudonym) June issue also has:On Pain of Death (novelette) by Robert Moore WilliamsMy Name is Legion (novelette) by Lester del ReyHeritage (novelette; 1st story) by Robert AbernathyThe Slaver by L. Ron HubbardA Nose for News by Roby WentzTime Dredge by Robert ArthurMudman by M. KrulfeldProof (1st story) by Hal Clement. Article: No Handicap Allowed by R. S. Richardson. Readers' Departments: Name and numbers written on cover in pencil. Letter P in color pencil upper left. Edge, spine and cover wear and creases. Tanned interior pages. May issue is coverless and well worn.

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