"The Ugly Little Boy" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. A nurse is asked by a scientific/technological organization if she would be willing to look after a little boy. THEY STOLE A BOY FROM THE PAST— To the astounded world of contemporary Earth, he is a beast, a Neanderthal ape-boy torn from the primordial past. The Ugly Little Boy Summary. The story is included in Robot Dreams and Nine Tomorrows. "We can't spend all day at this. The Ugly Little Boy has a very simple plot premise: a boy is snatched from the distant past by a time machine and taken to a future in which he does not easily fit. "All right," Jacobs said, with some impatience. She could stop thinking of him as "the child," "the Neanderthal," "the ugly little boy." But in the novel of the same name, also known as Child of Time, there is much more to the story of the little Neanderthal boy plucked out of time and transferred to the 21st century. Now Asimov and Silverberg have expanded on the original tale. Title: The Ugly Little Boy Title Record # 11853 Author: Isaac Asimov Date: 1958-09-00 Variant Title of: Lastborn [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers] Type: SHORTFICTION Length: novelette Webpages: Wikipedia-EN Language: English Asimov wrote the short story "The Ugly Little Boy" in 1958. by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg . The Ugly Little Boy is a science-fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. He was a person. Isaac Asimov first published as short story in the September 1958 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction as "Lastborn", and reprinted in the 1959 collection Nine Tomorrows as "The Ugly Little Boy". He was Timmie. But in the novel of the same name, also known as Child of Time, there is much more to the story of the little Neanderthal boy plucked out of time and transferred to the 21st century. And as she approached the other room Timmie slipped back behind the door, out of sight. It was initially published in 1958 in the popular magazine Galaxy Science Fiction under the title “Lastborn.” Since its first appearance, it has been republished under different titles. The Ugly Little Boy has a very simple plot premise: a boy is snatched from the distant past by a time machine and taken to a future in which he does not easily fit. Asimov's story The Ugly Little Boy, first published in 1958, told of a 21st-century time-travel experiment in which a Neanderthal child is plucked out of time and transferred 40,000 years into the future. Product Identifiers. But to his nurse and protector, he is something much more than a time-travel experiment. The Ugly Little Boy . Asimov mentions it as one of his favorites in I, Asimov: A memoir and It's a Good Life. Robert Silverberg later adapted it as a 1992 novel of the same title. Read The Ugly Little Boy Page 19 Online Read Free Novel - Read Light Novel,onlinereadfreenovel.com He had a name. 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