The Weapon by Isaac Asimov - Short Sci Fi Story From the 1940s

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“You ask us of Mars for a weapon to save your world. We have it–but it is not for you Earthman. Men may die and planets perish, but we break not the law of the universe–Every civilization must work out its own destiny!” The Weapon by Isaac Asimov, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

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We get more requests for today’s author than anybody else. He was 18 years old when he wrote this story in 1938, it wasn’t published until 1942, under a pseudonym. Perhaps because he used a pseudonym he forgot that this story was ever published and so, assuming it had been rejected and believing he no longer had a copy of it he didn't include it in a collection of his earliest stories in 1972. In that book he listed today’s story among the eleven of his short stories that has been lost forever.

Seven years later in 1979 while writing the first volume of his autobiography he came across an entry in his diary that reminded him that the story had indeed been published.

This story truly is “lost sci-fi”. From the pages of Super Science Stories in May 1942, let’s turn to page 115. H. B. Ogden was credited in the publication with having written this story, but we know that it was really written by a legendary sci-fi author, The Weapon by Isaac Asimov…

Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, To the mighty lords of infinity he sent a burning message–“You can deny a man everything–everything but his heritage… the stars!” Outcast of the Stars by Ray Bradbury.

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