Buy Jupiter, and other stories
by Isaac Asimov · first published 1975
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on “Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars” ↗…funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't." -- Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), p. 33 (in my copy).
on “There Are No More Good Things” ↗…Jupiter!" is a humorous science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the May 1958 issue of Venture Science Fiction Magazine, and reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories. The original title of the story was "It Pays," though it was never published under this name. >Plot summary: Government officials of the Terrestrial Federation negotiate to sell the planet Jupiter to…
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