Darwinian Pool Room

"Darwinian Pool Room" was published in the debut issue of Galaxy Science Fiction in 1950

"Darwinian Pool Room" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the October 1950 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, edited by Horace L Gold, and reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories. The story was inspired by lunch-time discussions between the author and his colleagues at Boston University. In 1989 Asimov noted, "I have always considered it among the least satisfactory stories I have ever written".[1]

  1. ^ Personal communication reported in N. Goldman, "Statistical estimation of evolutionary trees" (Ph.D. Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992) [1].