Light Verse (short story)

"Light Verse"
Short story by Isaac Asimov
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Science fiction
Publication
Published inThe Saturday Evening Post
PublisherCurtis Publishing Company
Media typeMagazine
Publication dateSeptember–October 1973
Chronology
SeriesRobot series
 
Feminine Intuition
 
. . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him

"Light Verse" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the September–October 1973 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. It later appeared in the collections Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Dreams (1986).[1] The author has reported that he wrote the initial draft in one session and later had to change hardly a word in the final revision.[2]

This story details a small portion of the life of Avis Lardner, the widow of an astronaut, William J. Lardner.

  1. ^ "Light Verse".
  2. ^ Asimov, Isaac (1975). Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1st ed.). Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-05077-1.

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