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eBook Category: Science Fiction Hugo Award Nominee
eBook Description: A fan goes back in time to retrieve the lost manuscript of Isaac Asimov's first story.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Analog, 1998
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2000

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Words: 3327
Reading time: 9-13 min.
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The best part about writing science fiction is the ability to bring your dreams to life, even if only fleetingly in the mind of the reader. In “Cosmic Corkscrew,” Michael A. Burstein gives voice to one of his dreams: to travel back to 1938 to meet young Isaac Asimov who is about to have his first story submission rejected, after which the story was apparently consigned to the dustbin of history. The mission for Burstein (or you or me) as the protagonist is to bring a copy of that long-lost story to the future. Along the way we get to encounter a sliver of the life of young Isaac Asimov, soda jerk, chemist and science fiction writer extraordinaire. All in all, an entertaining little science fiction “short.” -Paul Walker, Fictionwise Recommender

"Cosmic Corkscrew" by Michael A. Burstein is a tribute to the late, great Dr. Isaac Asimov. A time traveler meets with him before he's published his first story to recover the lost first story Asimov wrote as a teenager. What follows is a brief picture of the young Asimov, at the beginning of his writing career. -Jim Reichert, Tangent Online (Learn more about Tangent Online, the Internet's leading SF&F short fiction review website)

Stasis felt unreal.

Dr. Scheihagen had warned me about that when I volunteered for this mission. "Remember, we don't know what it'll be like for you inside," he said in his German accent. "We've never sent a human so far back before."

Scheihagen himself had been the volunteer for the first few experiments, but he had only gone back in time on the scale of hours, not years. So he was little equipped to prepare me for my experience.

Even now, I can't describe it. How does one describe the passage of imaginary time in a box of Stasis, of timelessness? I felt frozen in time, while events passed around me in a blur of color. Throughout, I worried that I might get trapped in Stasis, and never emerge into normal time again. But I had been willing to take the risk for this literary mission of the utmost importance.