Introduction to Theodore Sturgeon’s story Thunder and Roses in Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Fifth Series (1983), (in the 1985 hardcover reprint), pp. 343-344

There were many more stories in the course of the year that were printed and that dealt with the nuclear nightmare, and who knows how many stories that were written and were never published. It was an overriding terror in the years that immediately followed Hiroshima; and it is only the callousness of habituation that hasn’t caused the terror to increase steadily—for the danger has.

— Isaac Asimov

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "There were many more stories in the course of the year that were printed and that dealt with the nuclear nightmare, and who knows how many stories that were written and were never published. It was an overriding terror in the years that immediately followed Hiroshima; and it is only the callousness of habituation that hasn’t caused the terror to increase steadily—for the danger has." in the context of "Introduction to Theodore Sturgeon’s story Thunder and Roses in Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Fifth Series (1983), (in the 1985 hardcover reprint), pp. 343-344" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Isaac Asimov

About Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (c. 2 January 1920 – 6 April 1992) was a Russian-born American biochemist who was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, his works include the Foundation series and I, Robot.