Back اولینهای آسیموف Persian Période d'essai (recueil) French Asimov Story Italian アシモフ初期作品集 Japanese Asimov's vroege werken Dutch Perioada Campbell Romanian Ранній Азімов, або Одинадцять років спроб Ukrainian
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| Author | Isaac Asimov |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Barry Kiperman |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | November 1972 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 540 |
| ISBN | 0-385-03979-4 |
The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying is a 1972 collection of short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov. Each story is accompanied by commentary by the author, who gives details about his life and his literary achievements in the period in which he wrote the story, effectively amounting to a sort of autobiography for the years 1938 to 1949. (The book was followed by Before the Golden Age in 1974 and Buy Jupiter and Other Stories in 1975, which also included autobiographical material.)
The book is dedicated to John W. Campbell, the editor who bought many of the stories collected in this book.