"The Fun They Had" is a science fiction story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in a children's newspaper in 1951 and was reprinted in the February 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Earth Is Room Enough (1957), 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1960), and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973).
Written as a personal favor for a friend, "The Fun They Had" became "probably the biggest surprise of my literary career", Asimov wrote in 1973.[1] He reported that it had been reprinted more than 30 times with more being planned. It is about computerized homeschooling, and what children miss out on by not being in school together. He surmised that the story was popular with children because "the kids would get a bang out of the irony."[2]
^Asimov, Isaac (1973). "Introduction". The Best of Isaac Asimov. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. pp. xi. ISBN 0-385-05078-X. LCCN 74-2863.
^Asimov, Isaac (1980). In memory yet green : the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954. Internet Archive. New York, NY: Avon. p. 626. ISBN 978-0-380-75432-8.
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