Anniversary (short story)

"Anniversary"
Short story by Isaac Asimov
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Science fiction
Publication
Published inAmazing Stories
PublisherZiff-Davis
Media typeMagazine
Publication dateMarch 1959
Chronology
SeriesSilver Queen, Multivac
 
Marooned off Vesta, All the Troubles of the World
 
The Machine that Won the War

"Anniversary" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the March 1959 issue of Amazing Stories and subsequently appeared in the collections Asimov's Mysteries (1968) and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973).

The story was written for the twentieth anniversary of Asimov's first published story, "Marooned off Vesta", in the March 1939 issue of Amazing. The magazine reprinted the earlier story with the new one, and he feared that someone would write a letter stating that the earlier's writing was better, but no one did.[1] The story is also part of a loosely connected series of stories by Asimov about the supercomputer Multivac.

  1. ^ Asimov, Isaac (1973). "Introduction". The Best of Isaac Asimov. Sphere Books. pp. ix–xiv. ISBN 0-385-05078-X. LCCN 74-2863.