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Christmas on Ganymede
"Christmas on Ganymede" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was written in December 1940, first published in the January 1942 issue of ''Startling Stories'', and reprinted in the 1972 collection ''The Early Asimov'' and the anthology ''Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories'', edited by Martin H. Greenberg. It was the twenty-sixth story written by Asimov, and the nineteenth to be published.
In his autobiography ''In Memory Yet Green'', Asimov had this to say about ''Christmas on Ganymede'': "I was trying to be funny, of course. I had this terrible urge to be ''funny'', you see, and had already indulged in humor in more than one story. Writing humor, however, is harder than digging ditches. Something can be moderately well written, or moderately suspenseful, or moderately ingenious, and get by in every case. Nothing, however, can be moderately humorous. Something is either ''funny'', or it is ''not funny at all''. There is nothing in between."
"Christmas on Ganymede" was later included in an early Foundation Series timeline that was published in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'' along with the story "The Portable Star".
==Setting==
As the title indicates, the story is set on the Jovian moon Ganymede, the first story by Asimov set on that world. In the story, Ganymede has an oxygen atmosphere (which is not quite breathable by humans), and its own native flora and fauna, including a moderately intelligent native race, called Ossies for their resemblance to ostriches. There is a human settlement on Ganymede which is run by the Ganymedan Products Corporation, which exports wolframite, karen leaves, and oxite to Earth, and which employs the Ossies as a labor force.
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