The Fun They Had
"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."[2] Set in the year 2157, when children learn individually at home using a mechanical (robotic) teacher, the story tells of 11-year-old Margie Jones, whose neighbor Tommy finds a "real" book in the attic of his house.This reminds Margie of the stories her grandfather used to tell about the earlier school days.