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Kayleth - there is no short story with this title

Shadow MakerShadow Maker
edited April 2014 in Infoseek database
Not clear, why everywhere is told that Kayleth is based on short story of Asimov with same title. There is no such thing at all.

Even more, by me this game have no relation to Asimov at all, at least I read lot of Asimov's novels (and lot of short stories too) back in the days, but was never able to see anything similar to Kayleth. Seems all this game was pure Ufnofski's creation, and Asimov's name was just for promotion.

That said, seems someone who can should remove (book: Kayleth) from this entry:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Kayleth$&pub=^US+Gold+Ltd$

PS: By the way, Asimov - Russia? Really? He was not even speak russian AFAIK :) I know, that his birthplace is in Russia, but in this case seems USA would be more accurate.
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  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited April 2014
    You're right, the true tie-in is not with Isaac Asimov or any of his stories but with (as it says on the loading screen) Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, a periodical which got permission to use Asimov's name in its title as it helped to promote the work of new SF writers, although it never actually published anything by Asimov himself. By printing "ISAAC ASIMOV'S ... KAYLETH" in large letters and "Science Fiction Magazine Presents" in between in small letters US Gold/Adventuresoft were misleading people into believing that Asimov was the author of the story. The actual author (printed in even smaller letters in the adverts) was (the late - died in 2001) Stefan Ufnowski (who never wrote anything for the magazine either).
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