Isaac Asimov

“ When I wrote "The Mule" in 1945, I needed a name for a planet. It was wartime and there was a large map of the Far East on the wall. Kalgan was on the map. It is the name of a sizable city in the province of Chahar (Inner Mongolia) , which is located about one hundred miles northwest of Peking. ”

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