
	Where results make sense

Topic: Marooned Off Vesta

Related Topics

PFO

Atrial septal defect

	123Student
		Suspense is one of the things he focuses on when writing short stories such as "Marooned off Vesta." "Marooned off Vesta is a story of triumph and intelligence.
		"Marooned off Vesta" was a short story that showed leadership and courage.
		A starship called the Silver Queen was hit by an asteroid which blows off most of the ship and kills all but three crew members.
	www.123student.com /biographies/322.shtml (1587 words)

	Marooned Off Vesta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marooned Off Vesta is a short story by Isaac Asimov.
		Vesta as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in May 1996.
		They have at their disposal three airtight rooms, one spacesuit, three days' worth of air, a week's supply of food, and a year's supply of water.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marooned_Off_Vesta (282 words)

	Review of "Anniversary"
		This story was commissioned by Amazing for the 20th anniversary of the publication of "Marooned Off Vesta", Asimov’s first sale.
		Like "Marooned Off Vesta", this is a puzzle story (and enough of a mystery that Asimov included both tales in Asimov’s Mysteries)—but the puzzle isn’t as interesting.
		In "Marooned Off Vesta", the reader has a fighting chance to figure out what the solution is before the characters do—but not here.
	homepage.mac.com /jhjenkins/Asimov/Stories/Story009.html (159 words)

	Asteroids K-12 Experiments for Lesson Plans & Science Fair Projects
		Vesta is the only main belt asteroid that is sometimes visible to the naked eye (in some very rare occasions, a near-Earth asteroid may be visible without technical aid; see 99942 Apophis).
		Adding in the next three most massive asteroids, 4 Vesta (12%), 2 Pallas (9%), and 10 Hygiea (4%), bring this figure up 66%; while the three after that, 511 Davida (1.6%), 704 Interamnia (1.4%), and 3 Juno (1.2%), only add another 4% to the total mass.
		It has been suggested that asteroids might be used in the future as a source of materials which may be rare or exhausted on earth (asteroid mining).
	www.juliantrubin.com /encyclopedia/astronomy/asteroid.html (3538 words)

	tribute
		By the age of sixteen, thanks to his remarkable memory he had finished high school and was destined to move on to Columbia University to study chemistry (his father had wanted him to be a doctor but he did not want to move in that direction).
		On the literary front his first story, Marooned off Vesta, was published in Amazing Stories in 1939 and he was off and running.
		It was during these early years of Isaac’s writing life that he formed the lifelong friendship with one of the greats of the golden age of Science Fiction writing, John W Campbell.
	www.creativeisland.co.uk /isaacasimov.htm (632 words)

	sandipb.net » Blog Archive » 20 facts about Isaac Asimov that I would like to remember (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		His interest in science fictions magazines led him to write his own, and by his mid-teens he was selling his stories to pulp magazines.
		“Marooned Off Vesta” (1939) was his first published story, written when he was 18.
		Two and a half years later, he published his 32nd short story “Nightfall” (1941), which is considered by some as one of the most famous science fiction stories of all times.
	www.sandipb.net /blog/index.php?p=61 (946 words)

	About Isaac Asimov: Asimov Humanists
		In the ninth grade I had a study hall in the library and was assigned seating adjacent to the short story anthology shelf.
		Here is another of his responses to their attempt to modify the word “evolution” out of the text: “I think you are making a terrible mistake in trying to compromise with the superstitionists.
		Asimov sold his first science fiction story, “Marooned off Vesta” to Amazing Stories when he was 18 years old and continued to sell and publish science fiction stories all through his college and army days.
	asimovhumanists.org /AboutIsaacAssimov2.htm (6935 words)

	Marooned off Vesta
		Y, por supuesto, allí estaba Vesta, casi debajo suyo, un globo llenando casi un cuarto del cielo; un globo flotante, blanco como la nieve, hacia el cual se iban sus ojos plenos de intensa esperanza.
		Y pensó que una fuerte patada contra el costado de la nave, un fuerte envión, podría tal vez impulsarlo hacia Vesta donde quizá lograra aterrizar sano y salvo para buscar ayuda para los otros.
		Teóricamente, vista la acción negativa de Vesta, su peso en el espacio tendría que equivaler a cero, pero el Gravitador regional bajo su pieza estaba funcionando, y sin el equilibrio de los otros Gravitadores tendía a colocarlo bajo tensiones variables y repentinamente mutables conforme iba cambiando su posición.
	www.lorenzoservidor.com.ar /rel/rel181.htm (5306 words)

	Asteroid - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
		Adding in the next three most massive asteroids, 4 Vesta (9%), 2 Pallas (7%), and 10 Hygiea (3%), bring this figure up to 51%; while the three after that, 511 Davida (1.2%), 704 Interamnia (1.0%), and 3 Juno (0.9%), only add another 3% to the total mass.
		The number of asteroids then increases rapidly as their individual masses decrease.
		NASA is planning to launch the Dawn Mission in 2007, which will orbit 1 Ceres and 4 Vesta in 2011-2015, with its mission possibly then extended to 2 Pallas.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Asteroid (3716 words)

	Isaac Asimov Biography » Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
		He began writing his own stories as early as age eleven and his career took off in earnest when in 1939 he published the short story Marooned Off Vesta in Amazing Stories.
		He was survived by his second wife and his children by his first marriage.
		After the publication of his first short story Marooned Off Vesta in 1939, Asimov continued to contribute stories to science fiction magazines on a regular basis.
	www.sflare.com /archives/isaac-asimov-biography (825 words)

	Isaac Asimov: Man of 7,560,000 Words
		In a series of 5-cent copybooks, he wrote eight chapters of a novel called "The Greenville Chums at College," which, it is perhaps unnecessary to say, was modeled closely on the Rover Boys.
		When he was 16, his father dipped into the somewhat lean till of the candy store to buy him a secondhand typewriter, and young Isaac was, in effect, off to the races.
		That came back, but the same editor on Oct. 21, 1938 -- this date is well-remembered -- bought a story called "Marooned Off Vesta," which appeared five months later in Amazing Stories.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/97/03/23/lifetimes/asi-v-profile.html (1551 words)

	Opus 100 - Invision Power Board
		"Marooned off Vesta" was the third written and first published.
		The stories included, "The Last Question" and "The Feeling of Power" are classic SF stories, and if you are an Asimovian, you need to read them.
		The humorous stories, Thiotimoline and Holmes-Binsbook, were laugh out loud funny, and probably off the beaten track enough that most haven't read them.
	www.asimovians.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=2290 (2032 words)

	Isaac Asimov's best works - sffworld.com
		From the Foreword to Marooned of Vesta in Mysteries Anthology,
		'Marooned Off Vesta,' the first of this connected pair of stories, is not a mystery in any way.
		They remind me of Tuf Stories by George RR Martin for some reason, although both bear no resemblence at the first glance.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?p=202185 (935 words)

	Review of "Marooned Off Vesta" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A chance meteroid strike has crippled the Silver Queen and killed everyone on board with only three exceptions.
		The remnant of the ship is circling Vesta while the survivors watch helplessly, unable to move the ship or call for help.
		Their only prospect is a slow death as their supplies dwindle— their supplies of everything but water, of which they have enough to drown in and throw away.
	homepage.mac.com /jhjenkins/Asimov/Stories/Story165.html (175 words)

	Isaac Asimov Obituary
		After discovering science fiction on the magazine rack in his father's store -- and overcoming his father's objections to fanciful subject matter -- he tried writing science fiction himself and sold his first story when he was 18.
		The story, "Marooned Off Vesta," ran in the October 1938 issue of Amazing Stories.
		Three years later, in 1941, he sold a story called "Nightfall" to Astounding Science Fiction, then the top magazine in the field.
	www.rudysbooks.com /asimovobit.html (1569 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Arthur C Clark & Isaac Asimov / Book Guide
		My earliest recollection of being exposed to science fiction was in grade school (perhaps the 3rd or 4th grade), when we were assigned to write a report on a short story we had read.
		My report was on Isaac Asimov's story "Marooned Off Vesta," which was originally written in 1939.
		I remember being completely intrigued by the perils of the space heroes in their crippled craft.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /scifi/other/sf-books.htm (1232 words)

	Books into Movies - Classic SF, part 2 - SF/Fantasy Books
		His first short story, “Marooned Off Vesta” appeared in a 1939 issue of Amazing Stories.
		A mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact is discovered buried on the moon.
		The novel was inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", but became a novel during collaboration on a screen play with Stanley Kubrick.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art27424.asp (599 words)

	Isaac Asimov St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		He first discovered science fiction through the magazines sold in his father's candy store, and in 1938 he began writing for publication.
		He sold his story "Marooned Off Vesta" to Amazing Stories the following year, when he was an undergraduate at Columbia University.
		That same year, he sold his story "Trends" to John W. Campbell, Jr., editor of Astounding Science Fiction, and it was through his creative relationship with Campbell that Asimov developed an interest in the social aspects of science fiction.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200040 (921 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ Isaac Asimov, The Only Kind of Education There Is ~ January 2 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and ...
		I try only to write clearly and I have the very good fortune to think clearly so that the writing comes out as I think, in satisfactory shape," he explained.
		Asimov sold his first science fiction story, Marooned Off Vesta when he was 18, launching a remarkable career.
		His first book, a science-fiction novel, Pebble in the Sky, was published in 1950.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /010200.htm (338 words)

	Isaac Asimov
		In high school he contributed to the school newspaper; and in 1935, as a fifteen year old at Seth Low Junior College, he had one of his letters published in his favorite magazine, Astounding Science Fiction.
		In 1939, the same year he graduated from Columbia University (with a BA in Chemistry), he had three short stories published in national sci-fi pulps -- one in Astounding ("Trends") and two more in Amazing Stories ("Marooned off Vesta", "The Weapon Too Dreadful To Use").
		A mere two and a half years later he had published at least 30 stories; among them was "Night Fall", the now-classic story that brought him instant recognition as a serious author.
	www.nndb.com /people/702/000023633 (1332 words)

	Isaac Asimov
		By the time he was 11, Asimov was imitating the pulp magazine writing style of the day.
		He sold his first story, Marooned Off Vesta, at the age of 18.
		One of the magazines that ran his stories was Astounding Science Fiction.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-010204-asimov.html (1377 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Asimov started to write at the age of eleven, and at the age of 18, Asimov sold his first story, “Marooned Off Vesta.” One of the first places Asimov had his stories published was in pulp magazines, such as Astounding Science Fiction.
		They rack their brains and eventually solve the problem only to get shipped by the company off to a distant space station to do it all over again.
		In the next situation, they have to decide if a new robot is fit to manage space stations; if it is, humans will not have to man the stations any longer.
	www.personal.psu.edu /axa918/Portfolio/IsaacAsimov.doc (3430 words)

	Web Fed News Yearbooks - December 1998 - Official News
		Finally, oxygen had to be pumped in from the outside to keep the brave eco-experimenters from suffocating.
		If there is to be any future in colonizing other planets, travelling long distances in space, or setting up permanent space habitats, then they are going to have to try to set up their own closed systems to provide life support.
		What's more, the methane gas given off by the disposal unit could be used to power the spacecraft.
	www.ibgames.net /archives/fed/webyearbooks/1998/wyb9812a.html (2595 words)

	Asimov, The Good Doctor
		On 21 June 1938, Asimov took a story entitled "Cosmic Corkscrew" by subway to the offices of Street and Smith Publications, the publisher of Astounding Science-Fiction, and met with the editor, John W. Campbell, Jr., who rejected it (Allen 23; Williamson 96).
		After several other attempts at Astounding, Asimov finally found publication with "Marooned off Vesta," a story about the rescue of a crew stranded on the remains of a spaceship, in the March 1939 issue of Amazing Stories (Allen 23).
		Joining a fan group called the Futurians, Asimov met editor Frederik Pohl, who discussed Asimov's rejections and later printed a number of stories in Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories (Clute and Edwards 56; Asimov, "Letters" 12).
	www.bewilderingstories.com /issue8/asimov.html (1625 words)

	Anniversary (Asimov) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asimov included it in his 1968 story collection Asimov's Mysteries, and subsequently in his 1973 collection The Best of Isaac Asimov.
		Written 20 years after Asimov's first published story, Marooned Off Vesta, Anniversary concerns itself with the same characters celebrating the 20th anniversary of the events in the earlier story.
		As they look back over the incident, they become aware of previously unnoticed details, and make a groundbreaking discovery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anniversary_(Asimov) (154 words)

	Isaac Asimov FAQ
		Asimov's own suggestion, however, as to how to remember his name was to say "Has Him Off" and leave out the H's.
		Asimov died on April 6, 1992 of heart and kidney failure, which were complications of the HIV infection he contracted from a transfusion of tainted blood during his December 1983 triple-bypass operation.
		Asimov's key insight was that, inasmuch as we engineer our tools to be safe to use, we would do the same with robots once we start making them -- and that the main safeguards for an intelligent being are its ethics.
	www.asimovonline.com /asimov_FAQ.html (12119 words)

	"Reflections: Prodigies" by Robert Silverberg
		Consider the case of Isaac Asimov, whose name adorns this very magazine.
		Isaac, born in 1920, sold his first story, "Marooned off Vesta," in October, 1938, when he was still a few months short of nineteen.
		By the time he was twenty-one he had written the novella "Nightfall," one of science fiction’s all-time classics.
	www.asimovs.com /_issue_1212/ref.shtml (1441 words)

	Isaac Asimov Quotes
		In 1938 he joined a group of young New York City sci-fi fans known as "The Futurians," which included Fred Pohl, Donald A. Wollheim, and Cyril Kornbluth.
		included Asimov's first story sale, "Marooned Off Vesta," and that same year he graduated from New York City's Columbia College.
		The 1940s saw Asimov become a key writer in John W. Campbell's
	www.testermanscifi.org /AsimovQuotesPart1.html (883 words)

	Nightfall Study Guide by Isaac Asimov: Critical Essay #3
		Before writing "Nightfall" Asimov had written thirty-one stories and sold seventeen (four more would sell eventually).
		"Marooned Off Vesta," perhaps "The Callistan Menace," and "Homo Sol," along with the robot stories "Reason" and "Liar!" were the best he had done so far.
		His own assessment of his career to this point is "Looking back on my first three years as a writer, then, I can judge myself to be nothing more than a steady and.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-nightfall/essay3.html (189 words)

	Fresh off the assembly line! [Archive] - NewTek Discussions
		Now, with this little bit of background given, I’d like to present my rendition of the smallest of these Barsoomian flying craft, the single seat speedster.
		Mind you, some forty years have past since the original propeller driven craft were developed, so this newest model, fresh off the assembly line, and still needing some details, is outfitted with the latest in jet propulsion.
		Or an outside view of the damaged spaceliner in the asteroid belt from "Marooned Off Vesta?" Or are you going to stick with Burroughs for now?
	www.newtek.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-3782.html (924 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)