TY - BOOK AU - Asimov,Isaac TI - Youth T2 - Produced from Space Science Fiction May 1952 AV - PS PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction KW - Human-alien encounters -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_(Asimov_short_story); Release date is 2010-03-07; Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Youth" by Isaac Asimov is a science fiction novelette published in 1952. Two boys discover strange creatures they hope to train as circus animals, while nearby, an astronomer discusses a crucial meeting with aliens whose civilization faces collapse after atomic wars. When the alien visitors fail to appear, a search reveals a crashed spaceship with tiny dead occupants. The story builds toward a surprising revelation about the true nature of these mysterious beings and their home world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31547 ER -