# Rejection Slips

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{{Infobox short story
|name             = Rejection Slips
|title_orig       = 
|translator       = 
|author           = [Isaac Asimov](/source/Isaac_Asimov)
|country          = [United States](/source/United_States) 
|language         = [English](/source/English_language)
|series           = 
|genre            = [Science fiction](/source/Science_fiction) [short story](/source/short_story)
|publication_type = [Anthology](/source/Anthology)
|published_in     = ''[Nine Tomorrows](/source/Nine_Tomorrows)''
|publisher        = [Doubleday](/source/Doubleday_(publisher))
|media_type       = Print [anthology](/source/anthology), [Hardback](/source/Hardback)
|pub_date         = 1959
}} 
"'''Rejection Slips'''" is a comic poem by American author  [Isaac Asimov](/source/Isaac_Asimov), written in 1959 for the collection ''[Nine Tomorrows](/source/Nine_Tomorrows)''. It illustrates the three approaches of the most important editors in science fiction at the time ([John W. Campbell](/source/John_W._Campbell) of [Astounding](/source/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact), [Horace Gold](/source/Horace_Gold) of ''[Galaxy Science Fiction](/source/Galaxy_Science_Fiction)'' and [Anthony Boucher](/source/Anthony_Boucher) of [''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction''](/source/F%26SF)) when rejecting a story. Campbell sent lengthy and turgid analyses, Gold sent abusive little notes, and Boucher’s [rejection slip](/source/rejection_slip)s were so gentle that one wondered whether he was accepting the story or not.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.asimovreviews.net/Stories/Story319.html|title = Rejection Slips}}</ref>

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== External links ==
* {{ISFDB title|108124}}

{{Nine Tomorrows}}

Category:Short stories by Isaac Asimov
Category:1959 short stories

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