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Young Star Travelers
A collection of nine science fiction stories about children who have traveled in space.
209 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 1986
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About the author
Isaac Asimov
4,341 books27.9k followersWorks of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles,
The Foundation Trilogy
(1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
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December 31, 2020
I read this book simply because it was edited by Isaac Asimov, my favorite writer, and I trust his judgment. :) This anthology has short stories that are on the theme of young humans who travel through space. I loved several of the stories and enjoyed them all. My favorite of them was "Big Sword". This one is an interesting take on first contact and is more likely than us meeting up with a random humanoid who speaks in a language we would recognize as such. I loved how there were two opposing viewpoints and each species thought it was taming the other. :) Several of the stories were a bit sad and it was depressing how much of our current problems we take out into space with us. I guess we won't stop being human even when we are so technologically advanced.
Asimov points out in the introduction that historically, humans have had a frontier to explore and try to make a better life in. But now everywhere belongs to someone and there isn't a place to flee with your family... except space. So humans are destined to expand through this final frontier as we expanded through all the previous ones. I like that idea. It doesn't matter what politicians think or what society expects. It WILL happen. Humans can't leave things like that alone. :)
Asimov points out in the introduction that historically, humans have had a frontier to explore and try to make a better life in. But now everywhere belongs to someone and there isn't a place to flee with your family... except space. So humans are destined to expand through this final frontier as we expanded through all the previous ones. I like that idea. It doesn't matter what politicians think or what society expects. It WILL happen. Humans can't leave things like that alone. :)
January 28, 2019
This books as a pretty interesting selections of stories that i really like and that i have never read before. The place that they are in this story are pretty cool and they young age of the major characters. Some of the stories are pretty interesting and curious to read and some of the stories and themes are pretty weird to read or even imagine. This book as their good parts and their bad ones but my favorite part is when the book it says that “Why can’t i have a real cat, Em” said Paul. “in the book, the boy’s got a cat. Why can’t I have a cat , a real alive cat, not one in the book? An alive cat, same as we’re alive.” I like this quote because in there would be kids in space and they would be living in a spaceship their entire life, I just think it would be really interesting to explain a little kid explaining what’s a cat and describing them. I really enjoy this book and their several stories pretty interesting and i would enjoy if more people read the book this book would be better for the book.
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August 25, 2022
Una antología muy entretenida de relatos de astronautas jóvenes. Es cortita (en España se editó en una colección de literatura infantil y juvenil) y se lee rápido.
Todos estos libros que estoy reseñando tan seguidos son relecturas, y algo bueno tenían que tener los relatos para que, años después, aún me acordara de dos de ellos: el de Andre Norton (la historia de un futuro donde se ha hecho mutar a la gente para que ocupe menos espacio y se caza como animales a quienes quedan de tamaño natural) y el de Katherine McLean (una historia del Oeste en pleno espacio, con sus bandidos y sus mineros incluidos).
Todos estos libros que estoy reseñando tan seguidos son relecturas, y algo bueno tenían que tener los relatos para que, años después, aún me acordara de dos de ellos: el de Andre Norton (la historia de un futuro donde se ha hecho mutar a la gente para que ocupe menos espacio y se caza como animales a quienes quedan de tamaño natural) y el de Katherine McLean (una historia del Oeste en pleno espacio, con sus bandidos y sus mineros incluidos).
December 5, 2022
The stories vary in quality, of course, but all of them were good. They're all older stories, so in general we get more focus on the concepts than on plot or characterization; if anything, I wish a lot of these were full novel(la)s rather than short stories, because the ideas were interesting and I'd like to see them developed even more.
September 9, 2025
Some good stories, not great, for junior high school or below. All are entertaining. Geared to the Juvenile more than young adult.
July 9, 2015
A fun selection of stories most of which I'd never read before. The theme of the choices is the young age of the major characters.
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