He convinced Asimov, a novice writer, to take the subway and submit the story in person to the magazine’s famous editor John Campbell. Asimov’s father stood up to Soviet bureaucrats after the revolution but didn’t really know the way things worked in American publishing. Here is where having an immigrant father paid off. In my wildest dreams it never occurred to me that anything I wrote would ever be published.”Īt age 18, he read the magazine Astounding Science Fiction and wrote a story of his own. The excitement was all I wrote for in those early years. “I made up stories as I went along and it was a great deal like reading a book I hadn’t written. Much like Stephen King’s protagonist in the movie Stand By Me (called The Body in the novella), the 12-year-old Isaac Asimov started out by writing stories and telling them to his friends. He turned his hand to any job he could get and after three years had saved enough money for a down payment on a small mom-and-pop candy store and our future was assured.”
and virtually illiterate, for he could not read or even speak English. In the United States, he found himself penniless. Asimov explained his father’s fate: “In Russia, he was part of a reasonably prosperous merchant family, an educated man looked up to by those about him for his learning.
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