This story marks a special milestone for me, your humble narrator, an event worthy of celebration!
This is the first story where I have done all the things to get it published at gutenberg.org. From the intitial identification as possibly not having its copyright renewed, to doing all the required research, and then having that research validated by the gutenberg clearance team; to transcribing the story, processing the text and images, and doing all the things necessary to turn it into an ebook, up to and including actually getting it published at gutenberg.org, thus making the story available to the world once more! Huzzah!
In the time this story was written, Mount Everest was still unconquered (and incidentially, between when it was written and when it was published, the first climbers reached the summit, thereby disproving at least some of the premise of the story...hence the original blurb:
Perhaps you’ve read how Everest has now been climbed? But have you heard of Planetary Survey? Here’s the real truth about it. Everest has been climbed twice. )
Asimov wrote this story in one sitting, while waiting in the publisher's office one morning in the spring of 1953. He took the editor Bea Mahaffey out for a nice meal with the payment for the story.
Stories of Futures Past
This story marks a special milestone for me, your humble narrator, an event worthy of celebration!
This is the first story where I have done all the things to get it published at gutenberg.org. From the intitial identification as possibly not having its copyright renewed, to doing all the required research, and then having that research validated by the gutenberg clearance team; to transcribing the story, processing the text and images, and doing all the things necessary to turn it into an ebook, up to and including actually getting it published at gutenberg.org, thus making the story available to the world once more! Huzzah!
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77254
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In the time this story was written, Mount Everest was still unconquered (and incidentially, between when it was written and when it was published, the first climbers reached the summit, thereby disproving at least some of the premise of the story...hence the original blurb:
Perhaps you’ve read how Everest has now been climbed? But have you heard of Planetary Survey? Here’s the real truth about it. Everest has been climbed twice. )
Asimov wrote this story in one sitting, while waiting in the publisher's office one morning in the spring of 1953. He took the editor Bea Mahaffey out for a nice meal with the payment for the story.
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