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''Sucker Bait'' is a science fiction novella by Isaac Asimov. It was first serialized in the February and March 1954 issues of ''Astounding Science Fiction'', and reprinted in the 1955 collection ''The Martian Way and Other Stories''. It has also been adapted as an episode of the BBC anthology television series ''Out of the Unknown''. ==The Origins of the Novella== Asimov was approached in 1953 by the editor Fletcher Pratt, of Twayne Press, with a story proposal: a scientist would create a world, and then Asimov, Poul Anderson, and Virginia Kidd (but Mr. Anderson stated that the third writer was Kidd's husband, James Blish) would write novellas set in that world.〔Anderson, Poul, ''Question and Answer'' (Ace Books, 1978), Introduction. (ISBN 0-441-69770-4)〕 The three novellas would then be published as a book, together with an essay by the scientist who created the planet. This formula, which Pratt called a "Twayne Triplet", had already resulted in the book ''The Petrified Planet'' in 1952. The scenario created was that of a binary star system in the globular cluster, Messier 13, with an Earthlike planet called Troas (or more informally, "Junior") located at one of the system's Lagrangian points. An earlier expedition to Troas for colonization had suffered some mysterious disaster, and a second expedition is being sent to find out if "Junior" was suitable for colonization, and to find out what happened to the first expedition. Asimov finished his short story, and then Anderson finished a story called "Question and Answer", but Kidd (or James Blish) never completed the third story. The proposed book was never printed. Asimov anticipated that just such a thing might happen, and he arranged that he held the first serial rights for his story. He sold "Sucker Bait" to ''Astounding Magazine'', where it appeared just a few months before "Question and Answer". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sucker Bait」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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