Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was a Russian-born American writer and professor of biochemistry, who wrote and edited more than 500 books over the course of his career and was considered one of the “Big Three” writers of science fiction, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. His short story, “The Fun They Had”, was first published in the children’s pages of a newspaper in 1951, then reprinted in the February 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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