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The Martian Way and Other Stories is a 1955 collection of four science fiction stories (3 novelettes and one novella by American writer Isaac Asimov, previously published in 1952 and 1954. Although single-author story collections generally sell poorly, The Martian Way and Other Stories did well enough that Doubleday science fiction editor Walter I. Bradbury was willing to publish a second collection, Earth Is Room Enough, in 1957.

Contents

• "The Martian Way", novelette
• "Youth", novelette
• "The Deep", novelette
• "Sucker Bait", novella

Reception

Groff Conklin praised the collection as "an excellent introduction to the style and to the imagination of one of science fiction's most important writers."^[2]

References

Sources

• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 22. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.

External links

• The Martian Way and Other Stories at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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