The Martian Way and Other Stories

The Martian Way and Other Stories

First edition
Author	Isaac Asimov
Cover artist	Richard Shelton
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	1955
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	222
Preceded by	I, Robot
Followed by	Earth Is Room Enough

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."

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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