“Into the Darkness” is a short story that I believed showed up in one of Asimov’s collections. I don’t know the author or which collection (although it seems to me it was a low number). This is my favorite short story, and I would love to find the book it was in. If anybody knows which book this was in or the author please let me know.
Help me SDMB … you’re my only hope.
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (found at http://www.sfsite.com ) lists “Into the Darkness” by Ross Rocklynne, published in two different Asimov anthologies. Publication history is below:
The Great SF Stories 2 (1940), Isaac Asimov, 1979
Yesterday’s Tomorrows, Frederik Pohl, 1982, Berkley Publishing Corporation, 0-425-05648-1, $9.95 ($10.95 Can), tp
Golden Years of SF, Isaac Asimov, 1983, Bonanza Books, 0517401479
The ISFDB is an excellent source for this type of information, as is the Locus Books Received Database at http://www.sff.net/locus for newer stories.
Just for fun (and my ego), try this link at the ISFDB… http://www.sfsite.com/isfdb-bin/exact_author.cgi?Chuck_Rothman
Have you looked for an Asimov website or homepage? Or a scifi bibliography, either online or at your local university library?
PS: most university libraries will give a borrower’s card to a non-student, if you are half-way polite & ask at the office.
Thanks very much for the links and info! I tried using most search engines I know of and couldn’t find it.
Now THAT’s GQ at its best.
What a great crew we have here.