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The Callistan Menace
"The Callistan Menace" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the April 1940 issue of ''Astonishing Stories'' and was reprinted in the 1972 collection ''The Early Asimov''. It was the second story written by Asimov, and the oldest story of his still in existence.
==Writing and publication==
Asimov came up with the idea for the story, which he called "Stowaway", after his first meeting with John W. Campbell on June 21, 1938. When his first story, "Cosmic Corkscrew," was rejected by Campbell on the 23rd, Asimov started writing "Stowaway". He finished the first draft on the 28th, and the final draft on July 10. He submitted "Stowaway" to Campbell in person during another visit on the 18th. Suspecting that Campbell would reject it, Asimov spent the subway ride home coming up with the plot for a third story, "Marooned Off Vesta".
Campbell did indeed reject "Stowaway", based on the story's "general air of amateurishness, constraint, forcing". On 3 August Asimov submitted the story to ''Thrilling Wonder Stories''. When ''Thrilling Wonder'' rejected it, Asimov mailed the story to the offices of ''Amazing Stories'' in Chicago, which also rejected it. In the summer of 1939, following the sale of some later stories, Asimov revised "Stowaway", retitled it "Magnetic Death", and again submitted it to ''Thrilling Wonder'' and ''Amazing'', and again it was rejected. Later that year, Asimov's friend Frederik Pohl became editor of two new magazines, ''Astonishing Stories'' and ''Super Science Stories''. He accepted "Magnetic Death" on November 16, 1939, and it finally appeared in the April 1940 issue of ''Astonishing'' under the title "The Callistan Menace". (Asimov once described Pohl as "an inveterate title-changer".)
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