Trends

'''Asimov, Isaac. "Trends"''' (author's original title, "Ad Astra"). Astounding July 1939. Collected The Early Asimov. New York: Doubleday, 1972. Reprinted Great Science Fiction Stories About the Moon. T. E. Dikty, editor. Hollywood, Florida: Fredrick Fell, 1967.

According to the Wikipedia entry, "'Trends' was the tenth story written by Asimov, the third to be published, and the first to appear in 'Astounding', then the leading science fiction magazine"; a section on "Origins" gives a paragraph on the development of the story between Asimov and John Campbell, and that development story is told in fuller detail with context by Alec Nevala-Lee in Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, pp. 94-96.

See for theme of resistance to technological change, in this case with a rocket to the Moon as a kind of synecdoche and metonym for that change and the resistance based in evangelical Christian religion. Summarized in Wikipedia here:.

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