“Youth” is a fascinating short story about intergalactic trade from the iconic Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction and is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters.
Issac Asimov was an author and biochemist whose writings include the Foundation series, I, Robot, and Caves of Steel. Asimov employed themes of technology, artificial intelligence, and human progress to combine scientific rigor with storytelling and make complex scientific ideas accessible to a wide audience.
Born in Russia in 1920 and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Asimov studied chemistry at Columbia University before pursuing both a literary and scientific career. Over the course of his life, he authored or edited more than 500 books on subjects ranging from fiction and history to science. He is widely regarded as one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke.
