Showing posts with label Michael Davis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Davis. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ORBIT "Marooned Off Vesta"

 We All Know Isaac Asimov!

Amazing Stories March 1939 Art by Robert Fuqa
The Three Laws of Robotics!
Several seminal series including FoundationGalactic Empire, and Robots...all of which have been unified into one massive universe!
Literally hundreds of novels, novellas and short stories!
Amazing Stories, March 1959 Art by Virgil Finlay
But did you ever read his very first story?
(The pages above are from the tale's first publication in 1939 and it's (1959) 20th Anniversary appearance in the same magazine!
Now here's the never-reprinted 50th Anniversary adaptation of that tale, scripted by JD Scott and illustrated by Michael Davis.
It appeared in #2 of Eclipse's sci-fi anthology Orbit, which featured adaptations of stories from Davis Publications' Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine! and several of Asimov's own stories!
When the prose version of this story was reprinted in 1959 for its' 20th Anniversary appearance in Amazing Stories, Asimov penned a sequel, "Anniversary", featuring the characters gathering to celebrate their survival and then having a new, related, adventure!
The two tales have usually been reprinted together since.
But there's been no graphic adaptation of "Anniversary"...yet!
Next Week: A New World of Wonder!