The Weapon by Isaac Asimov

“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, but it wasn’t published until 1942, under a pseudonym.

Perhaps because he used a pseudonym, he forgot that the story had ever been published. 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 eleven of his short stories that had 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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