Search Worlds Without End

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1974. The story can also be found in the anthologies Final Stage (1974), edtied by Edward L. Ferman and Barry N. Malzberg and Souls in Metal (1977) edited by Mike Ashley. It is included in the collections The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976), The Complete Robot (1982), The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov (1989) and The Complete Stories, Volume 2 (1992).

Contains:

• A Loint of Paw
• The Singing Bell
• The Key
• The Billiard Ball
• The Dying Night
• I'm in Marsport Without Hilda
• Marooned off Vesta
• The Talking Stone
• Pate de Foie Gras
• The Dust of Death
• Anniversary
• Obituary
• Star Light
• What's in a Name

Meet Azazel...

He's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life...all with the best intentions, of course.

George Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain—but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.

With Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel—disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from the science fiction's most fertile imagination.

Table of Contents:

• xi - Introduction (Azazel) - (1988) - essay
• 1 - The Two-Centimeter Demon - (1988) - short story
• 11 - One Night of Song - (1982) - short story
• 19 - The Smile That Loses - (1982) - short story
• 29 - To the Victor - (1982) - short story
• 39 - The Dim Rumble - (1982) - short story
• 51 - Saving Humanity - (1983) - short story
• 63 - A Matter of Principle - (1984) - short story
• 77 - The Evil Drink Does - (1984) - short story
• 89 - Writing Time - (1984) - short story
• 103 - Dashing Through the Snow - (1984) - short story
• 119 - Logic is Logic - (1985) - short story
• 131 - He Travels the Fastest - (1985) - short story
• 141 - The Eye of the Beholder - (1986) - short story
• 155 - More Things in Heaven and Earth - (1986) - short story
• 167 - The Mind's Construction - (1986) - short story
• 179 - The Fights of Spring - (1987) - short story
• 193 - Galatea - (1987) - short story
• 207 - Flight of Fancy - (1988) - short story

Contains:

• Darwinian Pool Room
• Day of the Hunters
• Shah Guido G.
• Button, Button
• The Monkey's Finger
• Everest
• The Pause
• Let's Not
• Each an Explorer
• Blank!
• Does a Bee Care
• Silly Asses
• Buy Jupiter!
• A Statue for Father
• Rain, Rain, Go Away
• Founding Father
• Exile to Hell
• Key Item
• The Proper Study
• 2430 A.D.
• The Greatest Asset
• Take a Match
• Thiotimoline to the Stars
• Light Verse

Contents:

• vii - Introduction (Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction) - [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] - (1983) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 3 - Keep Out - (1954) - short story by Fredric Brown
• 9 - Student Body - (1953) - novelette by F. L. Wallace [as by Floyd L. Wallace]
• 37 - A Sound of Thunder - (1952) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• 55 - Invariant - (1944) - short story by John R. Pierce
• 63 - The Exterminator - (1931) - short story by A. Hyatt Verrill
• 71 - Tomorrow's Children - [Tomorrow's Children - 1] - (1947) - novelette by Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop [as by Poul Anderson]
• 107 - Mary and Joe - (1962) - short story by Naomi Mitchison
• 123 - Sea Change - (1956) - short story by Thomas N. Scortia
• 141 - Caught in the Organ Draft - (1972) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 157 - Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 191 - Alien Earth - (1949) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• 225 - Grandpa - [The Hub] - (1955) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• 257 - Notes (Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction) - [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] - (1983) - essay by Isaac Asimov

Earth Is Room Enough is a collection of fifteen short science fiction and fantasy stories and two pieces of comic verse published by Isaac Asimov in 1957. In his autobiography In Joy Still Felt, Asimov wrote, "I was still thinking of the remarks of reviewers such as George O. Smith . . . concerning my penchant for wandering over the Galaxy. I therefore picked stories that took place on Earth and called the book Earth Is Room Enough." The collection includes one story from the Robot Series and four stories that feature or mention the fictional computer Multivac.

Nebula Award nominated short fiction story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1965. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 15th Series (1966), edited by Edward L. Ferman and 11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1966), edited by Judith Merril. It is incleded in the collections Nightfall and Other Stories (1969), Nightfall Two (1971), Robot Dreams (1986), The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov (1989), and The Complete Stories, Volume 1 (1990).

Original tales written in honor of Isaac Asimov's fiftieth anniversary in the genre. They are set across his works.

Contents:

• 1 - Preface (Foundation's Friends) - essay by Ray Bradbury
• 3 - Second Preface: The Nonmetallic Isaac or It's a Wonderful Life - essay by Ben Bova
• 7 - Strip-Runner - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - novelette by Pamela Sargent
• 41 - The Asenion Solution - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 57 - Murder in the Urth Degree - [Wendell Urth] - short story by Edward Wellen
• 75 - Trantor Falls - [Foundation] - short story by Harry Turtledove
• 95 - Dilemma - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - short story by Connie Willis
• 115 - Maureen Birnbaum After Dark - [Maureen Birnbaum] - short story by George Alec Effinger
• 135 - Balance - [Susan Calvin] - short story by Mike Resnick
• 141 - The Present Eternal - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 153 - PAPPI - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - short story by Sheila Finch
• 173 - The Reunion at the Mile-High - short story by Frederik Pohl
• 187 - Plato's Cave - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 217 - Foundation's Conscience - [Foundation] - short story by George Zebrowski
• 225 - Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - novella by Robert Sheckley
• 273 - The Overheard Conversation - [Black Widowers] - short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 281 - Blot - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - novelette by Hal Clement
• 307 - The Fourth Law of Robotics - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - short story by Harry Harrison
• 321 - The Originist - [Foundation] - novella by Orson Scott Card
• 397 - A Word or Two from Janet - essay by Janet Asimov [as by Janet Jeppson Asimov]
• 401 - Fifty Years - essay by Isaac Asimov

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, October 1965. The story can also be found in the anthologies Backdrop of Stars (1969), edited by Harry Harrison and Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction (1980), edited by Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander. The story is included in the collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975).

Hugo Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 1991. The story can also be found in the anthology The New Hugo Winners, Volume IV: (1992-94) (1997), edited by Gregory Benford. It is included in the collection Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection (1995).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large.

Contents:

• Fault-Intolerant - (1990) - short story
• Kid Brother - (1990) - short story
• The Smile of the Chipper - (1988) - short story
• Gold - (1991) - novelette
• Left to Right - [Probability Zero] - (1987) - short story
• Cal - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - (1990) - novelette
• Frustration - (1991) - shortfiction
• Hallucination - (1985) - novelette
• The Instability - (1989) - short story
• Alexander the God - (1995) - short story
• In the Canyon - (1990) - shortfiction
• Good-bye to Earth - (1989) - short story
• Battle-Hymn - (1995) - short story
• Feghoot and the Courts - (1986) - shortfiction
• The Nations in Space - (1995) - short story
• Religion and Science Fiction - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1984) - essay
• The Longest Voyage - (1983) - essay
• Inventing a Universe - (1990) - essay
• Flying Saucers and Science Fiction - (1982) - essay
• Invasion - (1995) - essay
• The Science Fiction Blowgun - (1978) - essay
• The Robot Chronicles - (1990) - essay
• Golden Age Ahead - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1979) - essay
• The All-Human Galaxy - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1983) - essay
• Psychohistory - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1988) - essay
• Science Fiction Series - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1986) - essay
• Survivors - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1987) - essay
• Nowhere! - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1983) - essay
• Outsiders, Insiders - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1986) - essay
• Science Fiction Anthologies - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1981) - essay
• The Influence of Science Fiction - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1981) - essay
• Women and Science Fiction - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1983) - essay
• Time-Travel - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1984) - essay
• Plotting - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1989) - essay
• Metaphor - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1989) - essay
• Ideas - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1990) - essay
• Serials - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1980) - essay
• The Name of Our Field - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1978) - essay
• Hints - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1979) - essay
• Writing for Young People - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1986) - essay
• Names - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1984) - essay
• Originality - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1986) - essay
• Book Reviews - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1981) - essay
• What Writers Go Through - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1981) - essay
• Revisions - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1982) - essay
• Irony - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1984) - essay
• Plagiarism - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1985) - essay
• Symbolism - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1985) - essay
• Prediction - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1989) - essay
• Best-Seller - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1983) - essay
• Pseudonyms - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1984) - essay
• Dialog - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1985) - essay

Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname "the Great Explainer." I. Asimov is his personal story--vivid, open, and honest--as only Asimov himself could tell it.

Here is the story of the paradoxical genius who wrote of travel to the stars yet refused to fly in airplanes; who imagined alien universes and vast galactic civilizations while staying home to write; who compulsively authored more than 470 books yet still found the time to share his ideas with some of the great minds of our century. Here are his wide-ranging thoughts and sharp-eyed observations on everything from religion to politics, love and divorce, friendship and Hollywood, fame and mortality. Here, too, is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the varied personalities--Campbell, Ellison, Heinlein, Clarke, del Rey, Silverberg, and others--who along with Asimov helped shape science fiction.

As unique and irrepressible as the man himself, I. Asimov is the candid memoir of an incomparable talent who entertained readers for nearly half a century and whose work will surely endure into the future he so vividly envisioned.

Contents:

• 1 - Introduction: Robots, Computers, and Fear - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 15 - Moxon's Master - (1899) - short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 29 - The Lost Machine - (1932) - novelette by John Wyndham
• 50 - Rex - (1934) - short story by Harl Vincent
• 68 - Robbie - (1950) - short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow 1940)
• 93 - Farewell to the Master - (1940) - novelette by Harry Bates
• 139 - Robot's Return - (1938) - short story by Robert Moore Williams (variant of Robots Return)
• 153 - Though Dreamers Die - (1944) - novelette by Lester del Rey
• 175 - Fulfillment - (1951) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 209 - Runaround - [Mike Donovan] - (1942) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 233 - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• 251 - The Evitable Conflict - [Susan Calvin] - (1950) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 279 - A Logic Named Joe - (1946) - short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
• 297 - Sam Hall - [Sam Hall Universe] - (1953) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 332 - I Made You - (1954) - short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 345 - Triggerman - (1958) - short story by J. F. Bone
• 357 - War with the Robots - (1962) - short story by Harry Harrison
• 380 - Evidence - [Susan Calvin] - (1946) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 405 - 2066: Election Day - (1956) - short story by Michael Shaara
• 422 - If There Were No Benny Cemoli - (1963) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 448 - The Monkey Wrench - (1951) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 461 - Dial F for Frankenstein - (1973) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Dial "F" for Frankenstein 1965)
• 470 - The Macauley Circuit - (1956) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 481 - Judas - (1967) - short story by John Brunner
• 491 - Answer - (1954) - short story by Fredric Brown
• 495 - The Electric Ant - (1969) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• 519 - The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 565 - Long Shot - (1972) - short story by Vernor Vinge
• 581 - Alien Stones - (1972) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• 616 - Starcrossed - (1973) - short story by George Zebrowski

Isaac Asimov and science fiction are one and the same to millions of readers. He was the field's transcendent genius, its reigning prophet, its genial patriarch, and its most prolific author. But Asimov also wrote fantasy, and invariably of an enduring quality. Magic is his final original collection, containing all of his uncollected fantasy stories that have never before appeared in book form.

In addition, this farewell collection of Asimov's writings also includes his thoughts on the genre of fantasy itself. Here are the fascinating musings of a wide ranging intelligence, discussing everything from Tolkien to Spielberg, from Unicorns to King Arthur, from the difference between maidens and damsels to the speed of Seven League Boots - scientifically calculated at last!

Table of Contents:

• vii - Introduction (Magic, the Final Fantasy Collection) - (1996) - essay by The Publishers
• 3 - To Your Health - [Azazel] - (1989) - short story
• 13 - The Critic on the Hearth - [Azazel] - (1992) - short story
• 23 - It's a Job - [Azazel] - (1991) - short story
• 33 - Baby, It's Cold Outside - [Azazel] - (1991) - short story
• 45 - The Time Traveler - [Azazel] - (1990) - short story
• 66 - Wine Is a Mocker - [Azazel] - (1990) - short story
• 67 - The Mad Scientist - [Azazel] - (1989) - short story
• 79 - The Fable of the Three Princes - (1987) - novelette
• 97 - March Against the Foe - [Azazel] - (1994) - short story
• 107 - Northwestward - [Black Widowers] - (1989) - short story
• 123 - Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon - (1991) - short story
• 141 - Magic - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1985) - essay
• 148 - Sword and Sorcery - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1985) - essay
• 153 - Concerning Tolkien - (1991) - essay
• 159 - In Days of Old - [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] - (1985) - essay
• 163 - Giants in the Earth - [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] - (1985) - essay
• 167 - When Fantasy Became Fantasy - [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] - (1982) - essay (variant of Introduction: When Fantasy Became Fantasy)
• 171 - The Reluctant Critic - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1978) - essay
• 177 - The Unicorn - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1986) - essay
• 183 - Unknown - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1987) - essay
• 189 - Extraordinary Voyages - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1978) - essay
• 193 - Fairy Tales - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1985) - essay
• 199 - Dear Judy-Lynn - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1986) - essay
• 205 - Fantasy - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1984) - essay
• 213 - Reading and Writing - (1990) - essay
• 217 - The Right Answer - (1996) - essay
• 221 - Ignorance in America - (1989) - essay
• 225 - Knock Plastic! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1967) - essay
• 237 - Lost in Non-Translation - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1972) - essay
• 249 - Look Long Upon a Monkey - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1974) - essay
• 261 - Thinking About Thinking - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1975) - essay

In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth's people--but she is prevented from warning them. Soon she will realize that Nemesis endangers Rotor as well. And so it will be up to her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as--drawn inexorably by Nemesis, the death star--they hurtle toward certain disaster.

Contains:

• The Ugly Little Boy
• The Last Question
• The Feeling of Power
• Profession
• All the Troubles of the World
• The Dying Night
• The Gentle Vultures
• I'm in Marsport Without Hilda
• Spell My Name with an S
• I Just Make Them Up, See!
• Rejection Slips

Seventeen science essays (all reprinted from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) are grouped into two parts: Part I--Of Time and Space; Part II--Of Other Things. The articles are numbered as chapters, with the first ten in Part I, and the next seven in Part II.

Table of Contents:

• ix - Introduction (Of Time and Space and Other Things) - essay
• 2 - The Days of Our Years - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 14 - Begin at the Beginning - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1965) - essay
• 26 - Ghost Lines in the Sky - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 38 - The Heavenly Zoo - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 51 - Roll Call - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1963) - essay
• 64 - Round and Round and... - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 74 - Just Mooning Around - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1963) - essay
• 86 - First and Rearmost - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 98 - The Black of Night - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 109 - A Galaxy at a Time - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 122 - Forget It! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 134 - Nothing Counts - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 146 - C for Celeritas - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1959) - essay
• 157 - A Piece of the Action - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 168 - Welcome, Stranger! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1963) - essay
• 180 - The Haste-Makers - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 193 - The Slowly Moving Finger - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay

Table of Contents:

• 1 - The Gods Themselves - (1972) - novel
• 171 - The C-Chute - (1951) - novelette
• 187 - The Dead Past - (1956) - novelette
• 229 - Hostess - (1951) - novelette
• 259 - "In a Good Cause--"? - (1951) - novelette
• 277 - The Key - [Wendell Urth] - (1966) - novelette
• 299 - Lest We Remember - (1982) - novelette
• 321 - The Martian Way - (1952) - novelette
• 355 - Nightfall - (1941) - novelette
• 379 - Profession - (1957) - novella
• 419 - Sucker Bait - (1954) - novella
• 467 - The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette (variant of Lastborn)
• 497 - Youth - (1952) - novelette
• 519 - The End of Eternity - (1955) - novel

Seventeen essays deal with ice ages, undiscovered elements, Antarctic waters, a tenth planet, quasars, and other subjects of current scientific interest.

Table of Contents:

• It's a Wonderful Town! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
• Surprise! Surprise! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
• Making It! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
• Moving Ahead - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
• To the Top - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
• Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
• The Comet That Wasn't - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
• The Sea-Green Planet - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
• Discovery By Blink - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
• Asimov's Corollary - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
• The Magic Isle - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
• The Dark Companion - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Microwaves - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
• The Final Collapse - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
• Of Ice and Men - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
• Oblique the Centric Globe - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
• The Opposite Poles - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay

Locus Award winning and Hugo and Nebula Award nominated short story. It was originally published in a collection of the same name. It can also be found in the anthologies Nebula Awards 22 (1988), edited by George Zebrowski, Future on Ice (1998), edited by Orson Scott Card and Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (2001), edited by Orson Scott Card.

Robot Dreams spans the body of Asimov's fiction from the 1940s to the mid-80s, and features classic Asimovian themes, from the scientific puzzle to the extraterrestrial thriller, all introduced in an exclusive essay written especially for this collection.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1989) - essay
• Little Lost Robot - (1947) - novelette
• Robot Dreams - (1986) - shortstory
• Breeds There a Man...? - (1951) - novelette
• Hostess - (1951) - novelette
• Sally - (1953) - shortstory
• Strikebreaker - (1957) - shortstory
• The Machine That Won the War - (1961) - shortstory
• Eyes Do More Than See - (1965) - shortstory
• The Martian Way - (1952) - novella
• Franchise - (1955) - shortstory
• Jokester - (1956) - shortstory
• The Last Question - (1956) - shortstory
• Does a Bee Care? - (1957) - shortstory
• Light Verse - (1973) - shortstory
• The Feeling of Power - (1958) - shortstory
• Spell My Name with an S - (1958) - shortstory
• The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette
• The Billiard Ball - (1967) - novelette
• True Love - (1977) - shortstory
• The Last Answer - (1980) - shortstory
• Lest We Remember - (1982) - novelette

An anthology of science fiction short stories by such masters of the genre as Poul Anderson, Alan Dean Foster, Arthur C. Clarke, David Gerrold, and Roger Zelazny

Table of Contents:

• 11 - Editorial: Escape to Reality? - (1980) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 14 - In the Country of the Blind, No One Can See - (1979) - short story by Melisa Michaels
• 27 - Keepersmith - (1979) - novelette by Randall Garrett and Vicki Ann Heydron
• 51 - Good Taste - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 65 - To Sin Against Systems - (1977) - novelette by Garry R. Osgood
• 90 - Louisville Slugger - (1977) - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• 93 - A Delicate Shade of Kipney - (1978) - short story by Nancy Kress
• 102 - Air Raid - (1977) - short story by John Varley [as by Herb Boehm]
• 112 - A Many Splendored Thing - (1977) - short story by Linda Isaacs
• 117 - Boarder Incident - (1977) - short story by Ted Reynolds
• 121 - Low Grade Ore - (1977) - novelette by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
• 136 - The Missing Item - [Black Widowers] - (1977) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 148 - Heal the Sick, Raise the Dead - (1978) - short story by Steve Perry [as by Jesse Peel]
• 154 - Polly Plus - (1978) - short story by Randall Garrett
• 165 - A Time for Terror - (1979) - novelette by Barry B. Longyear [as by Frederick Longbeard]
• 183 - Perchance to Dream - (1977) - short story by Sally A. Sellers
• 199 - The Small Stones of Tu Fu - (1978) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 206 - Born Again - (1978) - short story by Sharon N. Farber
• 219 - Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe - [Eight Worlds] - (1977) - novelette by John Varley
• 242 - How It Happened - (1979) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 243 - Quarantine - (1977) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 244 - Cautionary Tales - (1978) - short story by Larry Niven
• 247 - A Bait of Dreams - (1979) - novelette by Jo Clayton
• 270 - Against a Crooked Stile - (1979) - short story by Nancy Kress
• 285 - Joelle - (1977) - novella by Poul Anderson
• 313 - Dance Band on the Titanic - (1978) - novelette by Jack L. Chalker [as by Jack Chalker]
• 330 - Softly Touch the Stranger's Mind - (1978) - short story by E. Amalia Andujar
• 335 - Lorelei at Storyville West - (1977) - short story by Sherwood Springer
• 344 - On the Way - (1978) - short story by Conway Conley
• 350 - The Napoli Express - [Lord Darcy] - (1979) - novella by Randall Garrett
• 402 - Darkside - (1978) - novelette by Gary D. McClellan
• 422 - No Room in the Stable - (1971) - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
• 426 - African Blues - (1978) - short story by Paula Smith
• 435 - Coming of Age in Henson's Tube - (1977) - short story by William John Watkins [as by William Jon Watkins]
• 439 - Home Team Advantage - (1977) - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• 443 - Star Train - (1978) - short story by Drew Mendelson
• 449 - Bystander - (1978) - short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 456 - Time and Hagakure - (1977) - short story by Steven Utley
• 462 - Ghosts - (1979) - short story by Keith Minnion
• 476 - A Simple Outside Job - (1977) - short story by Robert Lee Hawkins
• 479 - The Last Defender of Camelot - (1979) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 496 - Lost and Found - (1978) - short story by Michael A. Banks and George Wagner
• 499 - Hellhole - (1979) - short story by David Gerrold
• 512 - The Man Who Took the Fifth - (1978) - short story by Michael Schimmel
• 518 - The Adventure of the Global Traveler or: The Global Consequences of How the Reichenbach Falls into the Wells of Iniquitie - (1978) - short story by Anne Lear
• 525 - Backspace - (1977) - short story by F. M. Busby
• 529 - On the Q167 File - (1978) - short story by John M. Ford
• 532 - Horseless Carriage - (1978) - short story by Michael A. Banks
• 537 - Pièce de Résistance - (1978) - short story by J. F. Bone [as by Jesse Bone]
• 543 - Lipidleggin' - [LaNague Federation] - (1978) - short story by F. Paul Wilson
• 550 - Omit Flowers - (1977) - short story by Dean McLaughlin
• 551 - Message to Myself - (1978) - short story by Diana L. Paxson
• 554 - One Rejection Too Many - (1978) - short story by Patricia Nurse
• 557 - But Do They Ride Dolphins? - (1978) - short story by Frederick S. Lord, Jr.
• 566 - When There's No Man Around - (1977) - short story by Stephen Goldin
• 572 - Longshot - (1979) - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• 579 - Nothing for Nothing - (1979) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 587 - To Fill the Sea and Air - [LaNague Federation] - (1979) - short story by F. Paul Wilson
• 600 - Guilt - (1978) - novelette by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 615 - Proud Rider - [Circus World] - (1979) - novelette by Barry B. Longyear

In this outstanding collection of Sherlockian tales, the master of detection solves the most fantastic cases of his career. Herein are answered questions which have plagued loyal readers for decades, including: What is the truth about the mysterious menace of Sumatra? What occurs when Holmes must pursue an extra-terrestrial?

Stories by authors: Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Philip Jose Farmer; Sterling Lanier, Gene Wolfe, Edward Wellen and others, for your amusement and edification.

Table of Contents:

• Sherlock Holmes - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot - (1910) - novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Problem of the Sore Bridge -- Among Others - (1975) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
• The Adventure of the Global Traveler - (1978) - short story by Anne Lear
• The Great Dormitory Mystery - (1976) - short story by Sharon N. Farber
• The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound - (1953) - novelette by Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson
• The Thing Waiting Outside - (1977) - short story by Barbara Williamson
• A Father's Tale - (1974) - novelette by Sterling E. Lanier
• The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial - (1965) - novelette by Mack Reynolds
• A Scarletin Study - (1975) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
• Voiceover - novelette by Edward Wellen
• The Adventure of the Metal Murderer - (1980) - short story by Fred Saberhagen
• Slaves of Silver - (1971) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• God of the Naked Unicorn - (1976) - novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
• Death in the Christmas Hour - (1983) - short story by James Powell
• The Ultimate Crime - (1976) - short story by Isaac Asimov

Full title of the anthology is Speculations: 17 Stories Written Especially for This Volume By Well-Known Science Fiction Authors, But Their Names are Concealed By a Code and It's Up to You to Figure Out Who Wrote What. The names of the authors are intentially omitted from the table of content.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: The Scope of Science Fiction - (1982) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Nor Iron Bars a Cage
• Surfeit
• The Winds of Change
• Harpist
• Great Tom Fool or The Conundrum of the Calais Customhouse Coffers
• The Hand of the Bard
• The Man Who Floated in Time
• Flee to the Mountains
• Last Day
• The Newest Profession
• A Break for the Dinosaurs
• Event at Holiday Rock
• A Touch of Truth
• "Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?"
• ...Old... As a Garment
• Flatsquid Thrills
• The Mystery of the Young Gentleman
• Biographies of the Authors
• To Break the Code

Table of Contents:

• 1 - The Longest Voyage - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 7 - The Burning of the Brain - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 19 - Home the Hard Way - novelette by Richard McKenna
• 49 - Potential - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 69 - Bill for Delivery - [Federation of Humanity] - short story by Christopher Anvil
• 91 - Story of a Curse - short story by Doris Pitkin Buck
• 97 - The Oceans Are Wide - novella by Frank M. Robinson
• 177 - Far Centaurus - short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 203 - The Ship Who Sang - [The Ship Who ...] - novelette by Anne McCaffrey
• 227 - Avoidance Situation - novelette by James McConnell
• 273 - Chance Encounter - [John Grimes] - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
• 295 - Allamagoosa - short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 313 - Founding Father - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 323 - Wings Out of Shadow - [Berserker] - novelette by Fred Saberhagen

The story concerns the starship George G. Grundy, or Triple G., which has been chartered by the "Confederacy of Worlds" to investigate "Junior". The only nonscientist among the passengers of the Triple G. is 20-year-old Mark Annuncio of the "Mnemonic Service", who has been trained from the age of five to memorize and correlate vast amounts of information.

Over a century earlier, an attempt to colonize Junior had failed. After nearly two years on the planet, all 1,337 colonists had died for reasons unknown. The scientists of the Triple G. and Annuncio have the mission to find out what killed them. For the first two weeks after landing, everyone remains aboard while the scientists take readings. After Rodriguez, the expedition's microbiologist, declares that the local life forms are non-infectious, a handful of scientists, plus Annuncio, travel to the original site of the colony.

Relations between the scientists and Annuncio deteriorate rapidly. The Mnemonics are loners by nature, and their training makes them even more so. The scientists, on the other hand, as specialists, tend to be contemptuous of a professional generalist like Annuncio. When Annuncio asks Rodriguez to explain how he came to a conclusion, the microbiologist regards the request as an affront to his professional reputation, and refuses to answer. The other scientists manage to offend Annuncio in various ways.

When Annuncio finally realizes that the abnormally high concentration of beryllium in the soil and plants of Junior was what killed the colonists, and that they all have to leave immediately, he does not trust the scientists to deal with it. He returns to the ship and persuades the crew to mutiny and take the ship off from the planet. The captain is barely able to convince the crew to stop at the colony site to pick up the scientists. When Annuncio is put on trial for fomenting the mutiny, he explains his actions, is acquitted, and the ship returns to the Earth to seek medical treatment for its crew for beryllium poisoning.

Collected in: The Martian Way and Other Stories

Thirteen tales in which detectives of the distant future roam a galaxy riddled with locked-room mysteries, ciphers to be decoded, and unearthly evidence to be sifted, all by the rules of the 13 kinds of mystery story.

Table of Contents:

• The Universe of Science Fiction (1979) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Detweiler Boy (1977) - novelette by Tom Reamy
• The Ipswich Phial [Lord Darcy] (1976) - novelette by Randall Garrett
• Second Game [Kalin Trobt] (1958) - novelette by Charles V. De Vet and Katherine MacLean
• The Ceaseless Stone [Doctor Eszterhazy] (1975) - short story by Avram Davidson
• Coup de Grace [Magnus Ridolph] (1958) - short story by Jack Vance
• The Green Car (1957) - novelette by William F. Temple
• War Game (1959) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• The Singing Bell [Wendell Urth] (1955) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• ARM [Gil Hamilton] (1975) - novella by Larry Niven
• Mouthpiece (1974) - novella by Edward Wellen
• Time Exposures (1971) - novelette by Wilson Tucker
• How-2 (1954) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• Time in Advance (1956) - novelette by William Tenn

Table of Contents:

• The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette
• Found! - (1978) - short story
• The Last Question - (1956) - short story
• Evidence - (1946) - novelette
• Blind Alley - (1945) - short story
• The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette
• I Love Little Pussy - (1988) - short story
• The Eye of the Beholder - (1986) - short story
• Saving Humanity - (1983) - short story
• Lest We Remember - (1982) - novelette
• True Love - (1977) - short story
• For the Birds - (1980) - short story
• Nothing for Nothing - (1979) - short story
• Robbie - (1940) - short story
• Runaround - (1942) - novelette
• Sally - (1953) - short story
• Little Lost Robot - (1947) - novelette
• Light Verse - (1973) - short story
• Nightfall - (1941) - novelette
• Death Sentence - (1943) - short story
• Catch That Rabbit - (1944) - short story
• Exile to Hell - (1968) - short story
• Earthset and Evening Star - (1975) - short story
• --That Thou Art Mindful of Him! - (1974) - novelette
• Mirror Image - (1972) - short story
• Feminine Intuition - (1969) - novelette
• The Key - (1966) - novelette
• Eyes Do More Than See - (1965) - short story
• The Billiard Ball - (1967) - novelette
• Green Patches - (1950) - short story
• Profession - (1957) - novella
• The Red Queen's Race - (1949) - novelette
• The Martian Way - (1952) - novella
• Franchise - (1955) - short story
• The Fun They Had - juvenile - (1951) - short story
• No Connection - (1948) - short story
• Thiotimoline and the Space Age - (1960) - short story
• Marooned Off Vesta - (1939) - short story
• Breeds There a Man ... ? - (1951) - novelette
• Unto the Fourth Generation - (1959) - short story
• The Machine That Won the War - (1961) - short story
• My Son, the Physicist! - (1962) - short story
• T-Formation - (1963) - essay
• Author! Author! - (1964) - novelette
• A Problem of Numbers - (1970) - short story
• Ignition Point! - (1981) - short story
• Neither Brute Nor Human - (1984) - short story
• The Fourth Homonym - (1985) - short story
• The Quiet Place - (1988) - short story
• Bill and I - (1971) - essay

Twelve stories by the modern master of science fiction represent the evolution of his writing over a period of thirty-three years.

Contents:

• 9 - Introduction (The Best of Isaac Asimov) - (1973) - essay
• 15 - Marooned Off Vesta - [Brandon, Shea & Moore - 1] - (1939) - short story
• 32 - Nightfall - (1941) - novelette
• 68 - C-Chute - (1951) - novelette (variant of The C-Chute)
• 105 - The Martian Way - (1952) - novelette
• 152 - The Deep - (1952) - novelette
• 174 - The Fun They Had - juvenile - (1951) - short story
• 178 - The Last Question - [Multivac] - (1956) - short story
• 191 - The Dead Past - (1956) - novelette
• 239 - The Dying Night - [Wendell Urth] - (1956) - novelette
• 266 - Anniversary - [Brandon, Shea & Moore - 2] - (1959) - short story
• 283 - The Billiard Ball - (1967) - novelette
• 303 - Mirror Image - [Elijah Baley / R. Daneel Olivaw] - (1972) - short story

Table of Contents:

• The Prime of Life - (1966)
• Feminine Intuition - (1969)
• Waterclap - (1970)
• That Thou Art Mindful of Him - (1974)
• Stranger in Paradise - (1974)
• The Life and Times of Multivac - (1975)
• The Winnowing - (1976)
• The Bicentennial Man - (1976)
• Marching In - (1976)
• Old-Fashioned - (1976)
• The Tercentenary Incident - (1976)
• Birth of a Notion - (1976)

Isaac Asimov writes about actual and fictional scientists--from Archimedes in his bath to the alien astronomers on the far planet of Largesh--whose minds and discoveries have shaped our past, present, and future.

Table of Contents:

• xi - Foreword (The Edge of Tomorrow) - essay by Ben Bova
• 1 - Introduction (The Edge of Tomorrow) - [Asimov's Essays: Own Work] - essay
• 4 - Unique Is Where You Find It - [Black Widowers] - (1985) - short story
• 20 - The Eureka Phenomenon - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1971) - essay
• 33 - The Feeling of Power - (1958) - short story
• 44 - The Comet That Wasn't - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
• 57 - Found! - (1978) - short story
• 73 - Twinkle, Twinkle, Microwaves - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
• 85 - Pâté de Foie Gras - (1956) - short story
• 104 - The Bridge of the Gods - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1975) - essay
• 116 - Belief - (1953) - novelette
• 150 - Euclid's Fifth - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1971) - essay
• 162 - The Plane Truth - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1971) - essay
• 174 - The Billiard Ball - (1967) - novelette
• 194 - The Winds of Change - (1982) - short story
• 210 - The Figure of the Fastest - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1973) - essay
• 222 - The Dead Past - (1956) - novelette
• 272 - The Fateful Lightning - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1969) - essay
• 284 - Breeds There a Man? - novelette (variant of Breeds There a Man...? 1951)
• 322 - The Man Who Massed the Earth - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1969) - essay
• 334 - Nightfall - (1941) - novelette
• 371 - The Planet That Wasn't - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1975) - essay
• 383 - The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette (variant of Lastborn)
• 425 - The Three Who Died Too Soon - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1982) - essay
• 437 - The Last Question - [Multivac] - (1956) - short story
• 451 - The Nobel Prize That Wasn't - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1970) - essay

One of Isaac Asimov's SF masterpieces, this stand-alone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the twentieth century. It is widely regarded as Asimov's single best SF novel.

Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location outside of place and time, Harlan's job is to create carefully controlled and enacted Reality Changes. These Changes are small, exactingly calculated shifts in the course of history, made for the benefit of humankind. Though each Change has been made for the greater good, there are also always costs.

During one of his assignments, Harlan meets and falls in love with Noÿs Lambent, a woman who lives in real time and space. Then Harlan learns that Noÿs will cease to exist after the next Change, and he risks everything to sneak her into Eternity.

Unfortunately, they are caught. Harlan's punishment? His next assignment: Kill the woman he loves before the paradox they have created results in the destruction of Eternity.

Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth--but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.

Stories tell of the last survivor of an alien purge, a time traveler, an immortal who outlives all of his companions, a scientist who tries to postpone the end of his race, and an individual who stays behind when Earth is abandoned.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1982) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Underdweller - (1957) - short story by William F. Nolan
• Flight to Forever - (1950) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Trouble with Ants - [City] - (1951) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• The Coming of the Ice - (1926) - short story by G. Peyton Wertenbaker
• The Most Sentimental Man - (1957) - short story by Evelyn E. Smith
• Eddie for Short - (1953) - short story by Wallace West
• Knock - (1948) - short story by Fredric Brown
• Original Sin - (1946) - short story by S. Fowler Wright
• A Man Spekith - (1969) - novelette by Richard Wilson
• In the World's Dusk - (1936) - short story by Edmond Hamilton
• Kindness - (1944) - short story by Lester del Rey
• Lucifer - (1964) - short story by Roger Zelazny
• Resurrection - (1948) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
• The Second-Class Citizen - (1963) - short story by Damon Knight
• Day of Judgment - (1946) - short story by Edmond Hamilton
• Continuous Performance - (1974) - short story by Gordon Eklund
• The New Reality - (1950) - novelette by Charles L. Harness

This collection of four famous science fiction tales masterfully exemplifies author Isaac Asimov's ability to create quickly a believable human milieu in the midst of alien circumstances. Each of the long stores also shows his considerable skill in fully fleshing out a speculative scientific or social possibility.

Table of Contents

• The Martian Way - (1952) - novella by Isaac Asimov
• Youth - (1952) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• The Deep - (1952) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Sucker Bait - (1954) - novella by Isaac Asimov

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Fat! (The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book) - (1983) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Sylvester's Revenge - (1975) - shortstory by Vance Aandahl
• Fat Farm - (1980) - shortstory by Orson Scott Card
• The Stretch - (1956) - shortstory by Sam Merwin, Jr.
• Camels and Dromedaries, Clem - (1967) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• The Champ - (1978) - shortstory by T. Coraghessan Boyle
• The Truth About Pyecraft - (1903) - shortstory by H. G. Wells
• The Iron Chancellor - (1958) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Man Who Ate the World - (1956) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• Gladys's Gregory - (1963) - shortstory by John Anthony West
• Abercrombie Station - (1952) - novella by Jack Vance
• Shipping Clerk - (1952) - shortstory by William Morrison
• The Malted Milk Monster - (1959) - novelette by William Tenn
• The Food Farm - (1967) - shortstory by Kit Reed
• The Artist of Hunger - (1983) - shortstory by Scott Russell Sanders
• Quitters, Inc. - (1978) - shortstory by Stephen King

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1979) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Sun - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Weather on the Sun - (1970) - novelette by Theodore L. Thomas
• Mercury - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Brightside Crossing - (1956) - novelette by Alan E. Nourse
• Venus - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Prospector's Special - (1959) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• Earth - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Waterclap - (1970) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Mars - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Hop-Friend - (1962) - short story by Terry Carr
• Asteroids - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Barnacle Bull - (1960) - short story by Poul Anderson
• Jupiter - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Bridge - (1952) - novelette by James Blish
• Saturn - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Saturn Rising - (1961) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• Uranus - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Snowbank Orbit - (1962) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Neptune - essay by Isaac Asimov
• One Sunday in Neptune - (1969) - short story by Alexei Panshin
• Pluto - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Wait It Out - (1968) - short story by Larry Niven
• Nikita Eisenhower Jones - (1960) - novelette by Robert F. Young
• Comets - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Comet, the Cairn and the Capsule - (1972) - short story by Duncan Lunan (variant of Comet, Cairn and Capsule)

This is a combined edition of

The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction: Science fiction stories deal with the themes of sloth, lust, envy, pride, anger, gluttony, avarice, and covetousness.

The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction: Science fiction stories center on the themes of temperance, justice, faith, prudence, fortitude, hope, charity, and love.

Contents:

• Introduction (The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction) (1980) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Sail 25 (1962) - novelette by Jack Vance (variant of Gateway to Strangeness)
• Peeping Tom (1954) - novelette by Judith Merril
• The Invisible Man Murder Case (1958) - novelette by Henry Slesar
• Galley Slave [Susan Calvin] (1957) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Divine Madness (1966) - short story by Roger Zelazny
• The Midas Plague (1954) - novella by Frederik Pohl
• The Man Who Ate the World (1956) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• Margin of Profit [Nicholas Van Rijn] (1956) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Hook, the Eye and the Whip [The Peninsula] (1974) - novelette by Michael G. Coney
• Introduction (The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction) (1981) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Superiority (1951) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• Whosawhatsa? (1967) - novelette by Jack Wodhams
• Riding the Torch (1974) - novella by Norman Spinrad
• The Nail and the Oracle (1965) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Jean Duprès (1970) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• Nuisance Value (1957) - novella by Eric Frank Russell
• The Sons of Prometheus (1966) - novelette by Alexei Panshin
• The Ugly Little Boy (1958) - novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of Lastborn)

Asimov at his best! A 21-story salute featuring a levitating professor, alien traders bringing something to sell, a black hole hurtling toward Earth, the universe being created and many other matters of great import!

Table of Contents

• About Nothing
• A Perfect Fit
• Belief
• Death of a Foy
• Fair Exchange?
• For the Birds
• Found!
• Good Taste
• How It Happened
• Ideas Die Hard
• Ignition Point!
• It Is Coming
• The Last Answer
• The Last Shuttle
• Lest We Remember
• Nothing for Nothing
• One Night of Song
• The Smile That Loses
• Sure Thing
• To Tell at a Glance (previously published in an edited version)
• The Winds of Change

Contains:

• It's Such a Beautiful Day
• Belief
• Breeds There a Man...
• The C-Chute

Tomorrow's Children: eighteen haunting tales of children in time to come, whne the fantastic has become the commonplace, when witchcraft is a science and creatures from alien planets live next door. Stories by the masters of fantasy and science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Damon Knight, Clifford D. Simak, Stephen Vincent Benet, Fritz Leiber, Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.

Table of Contents:

• Tomorrow's Children - interior artwork by Emanuel Schongut
• Introduction (Tomorrow's Children) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• No Life of Their Own - (1959) - novella by Clifford D. Simak
• The Accountant - (1954) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• Novice - [Telzey Amberdon] - (1962) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• Child of Void - (1949) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
• When the Bough Breaks - (1944) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• A Pail of Air - (1951) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Junior Achievement - (1962) - short story by William M. Lee
• Cabin Boy - (1951) - novelette by Damon Knight
• The Little Terror - (1953) - short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
• Gilead - [The People] - (1954) - novelette by Zenna Henderson
• The Menace from Earth - [Future History] - (1957) - novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Wayward Cravat - (1958) - short story by Gertrude Friedberg
• The Father-Thing - (1954) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• Star, Bright - (1952) - novelette by Mark Clifton
• All Summer in a Day - (1954) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• It's a Good Life - (1953) - short story by Jerome Bixby
• The Place of the Gods - (1937) - short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
• The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of Lastborn)

Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific authors of our time. When he died in 1992 at the age of seventy-two, he had published more than 470 books in nearly every category of fiction and nonfiction. Asimov was a prodigious correspondent as well as a prolific author. During his professional career he received more than one hundred thousand letters, over ninety thousand of which he answered.

For Asimov's younger brother, veteran newspaperman Stanley Asimov, the creation of Yours, Isaac Asimov was truly a labor of love. Completed before Stanley's death in August 1995, the book is made up of excerpts from one thousand never-before-published letters, each handpicked by Stanley for inclusion in this volume. Arranged by subject and accompanied by Stanley's short, insightful introductions, here are letters to statesmen and scientists, actors and authors, as well as to children, housewives, aspiring writers, and fans the world over. The letters are warm, engaging, reasoned, and occasionally impassioned. Through them all Isaac Asimov's legendary genius, wit, and charm shine through.

And so we have Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters, an intimate glimpse into the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of a great writer and thinker of the modern age. As Stanley Asimov advised, "Read the letters carefully. One of them may have been written to you."

An Earth Gone Mad

Was this the end of mankind?

The cubes meant peace--but was it to be the peace of the grave?

While he was shipwrecked on a distant Jovian moon, with only a cryptic monster for a companion, Paul Shannon had longed for the laughter and friendship of men and women. But when at long last he brought is repaired space craft back to the familiar skies of North America, he was shocked to find AN EARTH GONE MAD.

Men's ambitions, women's love, and the eternal clash of wills, had all given way to the passive docility of stunned beasts. A new cult, born in the stars, was sweeping the world, promising glory but bringing only complete mental submission. And Shannon was torn between unwilling belief and panicky horror as he realized that he himself held the only key to that cosmic riddle.

The Rebellious Stars (title variant of The Stars, Like Dust)

Key man in a galactic explosion!

The Earth had been made hopelessly radioactive and useless by atomic warfare, but young Biron Farrill, a student in the University of Earth, nevertheless found himself involved in a struggle that was worse because of the mystery in it. His father, on another planet, had been murdered and the young man himself was marked for violent death.

The only certainty was that his pursuers, who identities were unknown to him, were agents of would-be conquerors of everything and everybody in the galaxy. But young Farrill had to find out why he and his father had been marked for destruction.

The 1000 Year Plan

Title variant of Isaac Asimov's novel Foundation (1951).

No World of Their Own

Space explorers returning to an unrecognizable Earth after five millennia away find themselves caught up in a deadly political power game on a planet racing toward intergalactic war.

Contents:

• The Dead Past
• The Foundation of S. F. Success
• Franchise
• Gimmicks Three
• Kid Stuff
• The Watery Place
• Living Space
• The Message
• Satisfaction Guaranteed [Susan Calvin (Robot)]
• Hell-Fire
• The Last Trump
• The Fun They Had
• Jokester
• The Immortal Bard
• Someday
• The Author's Ordeal
• Dreaming Is a Private Thing
• ProfessionThe Feeling of Power
• The Dying Night [Wendell Urth]
• I'm in Marsport Without Hilda
• Gentle Vultures
• All the Troubles of the World
• Spell My Name with an S
• The Last Question
• The Ugly Little Boy
• Nightfall
• Green Patches
• Hostess
• Breeds There a Man... ?
• The C-Chute
• "In a Good Cause--"
• If...
• Sally
• Flies
• "Nobody Here But--"
• It's Such a Beautiful Day
• Strikebreaker
• Insert Knob A in Hole B
• The Up-to-Date Sorcerer
• Unto the Fourth Generation
• What Is This Thing Called Love?
• The Machine That Won the War
• My Son, the Physicist!
• Eyes Do More Than See
• Segregationist
• I Just Make Them Up, See!
• Rejection Slips

Contents:

• Not Final!
• The Hazing
• Death Sentence
• Blind Alley
• Evidence [Susan Calvin (Robot)]
• The Red Queen's Race
• Day of the Hunters
• The Deep
• The Martian Way
• The Monkey's Finger
• The Singing Bell [Wendell Urth]
• The Talking Stone [Wendell Urth]
• Each an Explorer
• Let's Get Together
• Pâté de Foie Gras
• Galley Slave
• Lenny [Susan Calvin (Robot)]
• A Loint of Paw
• A Statue for Father
• Anniversary [Brandon, Shea & Moore 2]
• Obituary
• Rain, Rain, Go Away
• Light
• Founding Father
• The Key
• The Billiard Ball
• Exile to Hell
• Key Item
• Feminine Intuition
• The Greatest Asset
• Mirror Image [Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw]
• Take a Match
• Light Verse
• Stranger in Paradise
• That Thou Art Mindful of Him
• The Life and Times of Multivac
• Bicentennial Man
• Marching In
• Old-Fashioned
• The Tercentenary Incident

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Larger Than Life - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Gate of the Flying Knives - (1979) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Unicorn Tapestry - (1980) - novella by Suzy McKee Charnas
• Sleep Well of Nights - (1978) - novella by Avram Davidson
• Black Heart and White Heart - (1896) - novella by H. Rider Haggard
• Red Nails - (1936) - novella by Robert E. Howard
• Storm in a Bottle - (1977) - novella by John Jakes
• Ill Met in Lankhmar - (1970) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• The Lands Beyond the World - (1977) - novella by Michael Moorcock
• A Man and His God - (1981) - novella by Janet Morris
• Spider Silk - (1976) - novelette by Andre Norton
• Where is the Bird of Fire? - (1962) - novella by Thomas Burnett Swann
• Guyal of Sfere - (1950) - novella by Jack Vance
• Tower of Ice - (1981) - novella by Roger Zelazny

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Novellas - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Profession - (1957) - novella by Isaac Asimov
• Who Goes There? - (1938) - novella by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• For I Am a Jealous People! - (1954) - novella by Lester del Rey
• The Mortal and the Monster - (1976) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson
• Time Safari - (1981) - novella by David Drake
• In the Western Tradition - (1981) - novella by Phyllis Eisenstein
• The Alley Man - (1959) - novella by Philip José Farmer
• The Sellers of the Dream - (1963) - short fiction by John Jakes
• The Moon Goddess and the Son - (1979) - novella by Donald Kingsbury
• Enemy Mine - (1979) - novella by Barry B. Longyear
• Flash Crowd - (1973) - novella by Larry Niven
• In the Problem Pit - (1973) - novella by Frederik Pohl
• The Desert of Stolen Dreams - (1981) - novella by Robert Silverberg

Asimov combines many of his science fiction favorites from the thirties with his personal reflections on his early years, interests, and influences.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Part One: 1920 to 1930 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Part Two: 1931 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Man Who Evolved - (1931) - shortstory by Edmond Hamilton
• The Jameson Satellite - (1931) - novelette by Neil R. Jones
• Submicroscopic - (1931) - novelette by S. P. Meek
• Awlo of Ulm - (1931) - novella by S. P. Meek
• Tetrahedra of Space - (1931) - novelette by P. Schuyler Miller
• The World of the Red Sun - (1931) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• Part Three: 1932 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Tumithak of the Corridors - (1932) - novella by Charles R. Tanner
• The Moon Era - (1932) - novella by Jack Williamson

Asimov combines many of his science fiction favorites from the thirties with his personal reflections on his early years, interests, and influences.

Table of Contents:

• Untitled Introduction - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Part Four: 1933 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Man Who Awoke - (1933) - novelette by Laurence Manning
• Tumithak in Shawm - (1933) - novella by Charles R. Tanner
• Part Five: 1934 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Colossus - (1934) - novelette by Donald Wandrei
• Born of the Sun - (1934) - novelette by Jack Williamson
• Sidewise in Time - (1934) - novella by Murray Leinster
• Old Faithful - (1934) - novelette by Raymond Z. Gallun

Asimov combines many of his science fiction favorites from the thirties with his personal reflections on his early years, interests, and influences.

Table of Contents:

• Before the Golden Age, Book 3 - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Part Six: 1935 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Parasite Planet - (1935) - novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• Proxima Centauri - (1935) - novella by Murray Leinster
• The Accursed Galaxy - (1935) - shortstory by Edmond Hamilton
• Part Seven: 1936 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• He Who Shrank - (1936) - novella by Henry Hasse
• The Human Pets of Mars - (1936) - novella by Leslie F. Stone
• The Brain Stealers of Mars - (1936) - shortstory by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• Devolution - (1936) - shortstory by Edmond Hamilton
• Big Game - (1974) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• Part Eight: 1937 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Other Eyes Watching - (1937) - essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• Minus Planet - (1937) - novelette by John D. Clark, Ph.D.
• Past, Present and Future - (1937) - novelette by Nat Schachner
• Part Nine: 1938 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Men and the Mirror - (1938) - novelette by Ross Rocklynne

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.

Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants.

To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots - unthinkable under the laws of Robotics - or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!

A puzzling case of roboticide sends New York Detective Elijah Baley on an intense search for a murderer. Armed with his own instincts, his quirky logic, and the immutable Three Laws of Robotics, Baley is determined to solve the case. But can anything prepare a simple Earthman for the psychological complexities of a world where a beautiful woman can easily have fallen in love with an all-too-human robot...?

Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win....

Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed.

Deep within Russia, would-renowned scientist Pyotor Shapirov lies in a coma. Locked within his brain rests the key to the greatest scientific advance in the world's history. Only one scientist can hope to locate this secret—Dr. Albert Jonas Morrison, an American. Morrison's mission: to be miniaturized to molecular size along with a team of four Soviet scientists, travel in a specially designed submarine to the dying Shapirov's brain, and tap the secrets held there. Morrison and his companions have only twelve hours to accomplish their task—in the face of unexpected terrors and with their own lives hanging precariously in the balance.

With his phenomenal two-million-copy bestseller Fantastic Voyage, Isaac Asimov took the world on its first amazing journey into the human body. Now, twenty year later, after deeper exploration into one of the most fascinating areas of science, Dr. Asimov delivers an all-new thriller that transports you to the far reaches of inner space. Electrifying, astonishing, and remarkably realistic, this new novel is certain to become a science fiction classic.

Stories deal with a magician's quest, a man who changes into an elephant, sorcerers, werewolves, storytellers, a magical necklace, ancient monsters revived by a spell, a daring rescue, and a mysterious wall...

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Wizards - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Mazirian the Magician - [Dying Earth] - (1950) - short story by Jack Vance
• 27 - Please Stand By - [Max Kearny] - (1962) - short story by Ron Goulart
• 49 - What Good Is a Glass Dagger? - [Magic Goes Away] - (1972) - novelette by Larry Niven
• 84 - The Eye of Tandyla - [Pusadian] - (1951) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 107 - The White Horse Child - (1979) - short story by Greg Bear
• 126 - Semley's Necklace - [Hainish] - (1964) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of The Dowry of Angyar)
• 145 - And the Monsters Walk - (1952) - novella by John Jakes
• 182 - The Seeker in the Fortress - [Kardios] - (1979) - novelette by Manly Wade Wellman
• 204 - The Wall Around the World - (1953) - novelette by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 230 - The People of the Black Circle - [Conan] - (1934) - novella by Robert E. Howard

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction: Witches - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 12 - My Mother Was a Witch - (1966) - short story by William Tenn
• 18 - A Message from Charity - (1967) - short story by William M. Lee
• 37 - The Witch - (1943) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 58 - The Witches of Karres - [Karres] - (1949) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• 99 - Spree - (1984) - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 107 - Devil's Henchman - (1952) - short story by Murray Leinster
• 121 - Malice in Wonderland - (1957) - novelette by Rufus King
• 140 - Operation Salamander - [Operation Chaos] - (1957) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 166 - Wizard's World - (1967) - novella by Andre Norton
• 212 - Sweets to the Sweet - (1947) - short story by Robert Bloch
• 221 - Poor Little Saturday - (1956) - short story by Madeleine L'Engle
• 236 - Squeakie's First Case - (1943) - novelette by Margaret Manners
• 258 - The Ipswich Phial - [Lord Darcy] - (1976) - novelette by Randall Garrett
• 303 - Black Heart and White Heart - (1896) - novella by H. Rider Haggard

Magical tales of chivalry and adventure include works by Poul Anderson, Vera Chapman, L. Sprague de Camp, Kenneth Grahame, Keith Laumer, Roger Zelazny, and others...

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction: In Days of Old - (1985) - essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of In Days of Old)
• 7 - Crusader Damosel - (1978) - short story by Vera Chapman
• 21 - Divers Hands - [Julian] - (1979) - novelette by Darrell Schweitzer
• 49 - The Reluctant Dragon - (1898) - novelette by Kenneth Grahame
• 71 - The Immortal Game - (1954) - short story by Poul Anderson
• 85 - The Stainless-Steel Knight - (1961) - novelette by John T. Phillifent
• 117 - Diplomat-at-Arms - [Retief] - (1960) - novella by Keith Laumer
• 165 - Dream Damsel - (1954) - short story by Evan Hunter
• 177 - The Last Defender of Camelot - (1979) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 201 - A Knyght Ther Was - (1963) - novella by Robert F. Young
• 251 - Divide and Rule - (1939) - novella by L. Sprague de Camp

Short stories by authors such as Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, and Andre Norton depict the strange effects of curses and magic spells...

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Curses! - (1985) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 10 - The Candidate - (1961) - short story by Henry Slesar
• 18 - The Christmas Shadrach - (1891) - short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 37 - The Snow Women - [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] - (1970) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• 106 - Invisible Boy - (1945) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• 116 - The Hero Who Returned - (1979) - novelette by Gerald W. Page
• 140 - Toads of Grimmerdale - [Witch World Secrets] - (1973) - novella by Andre Norton (variant of The Toads of Grimmerdale)
• 188 - A Literary Death - (1985) - short story by Martin H. Greenberg
• 191 - Satan and Sam Shay - (1942) - short story by Robert Arthur
• 206 - Lot No. 249 - (1892) - novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 239 - The Witch Is Dead - [Simon Ark - 3] - (1956) - short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 259 - I Know What You Need - (1976) - novelette by Stephen King
• 282 - The Miracle Workers - (1969) - novella by Jack Vance (variant of The Miracle-Workers 1958)

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Giants in the Earth - (1985) - essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of Giants in the Earth)
• 11 - The Riddle of Ragnarok - (1955) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 31 - Straggler from Atlantis - [Kardios] - (1977) - novelette by Manly Wade Wellman
• 57 - He Who Shrank - (1936) - novella by Henry Hasse
• 123 - From the Dark Waters - (1976) - short story by David Drake
• 139 - Small Lords - (1957) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• 161 - The Mad Planet - [Burl - 1] - (1920) - novella by Murray Leinster
• 220 - Dreamworld - (1955) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 222 - The Thirty and One - [Tales from Cornwall - 4] - (1938) - short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
• 235 - The Law-Twister Shorty - [Dilbia] - (1971) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• 279 - In the Lower Passage - (1902) - short story by Harle Oren Cummins
• 284 - Cabin Boy - (1951) - novelette by Damon Knight
• 312 - The Colossus of Ylourgne - [The Colossus of Ylourgne] - (1934) - novelette by Clark Ashton Smith

Table of Contents:

• 3 - Centaur Fielder for the Yankees - (1986) - short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 15 - The Ice Dragon - (1980) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 38 - Prince Prigio - (1889) - novella by Andrew Lang
• 90 - The Gorgon - (1982) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• 114 - The Griffin and the Minor Canon - (1885) - short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 131 - The Kragen - (1964) - novella by Jack Vance
• 205 - The Little Mermaid - (1837) - novelette by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Den Lille Havfrue)
• 230 - Letters from Laura - (1954) - short story by Mildred Clingerman
• 239 - The Triumph of Pegasus - (1964) - novelette by Frank A. Javor
• 271 - Caution! Inflammable! - (1955) - short story by Thomas N. Scortia
• 276 - The Pyramid Project - (1964) - novelette by Robert F. Young (variant of The Sphinx)
• 309 - The Silken-Swift - (1953) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 332 - Mood Wendigo - [Howie Wyman] - (1980) - short story by Thomas A. Easton

Stories tell of a magical umbrella, a newspaper that predicts the future, a devil's advocate, a terrible curse, a witch, a wizard, nightmares, and a powerful genie...

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction: Wishing Will Make It So - (1986) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 12 - The Monkey's Paw - (1902) - short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 24 - Behind the News - (1952) - short story by Jack Finney
• 38 - The Flight of the Umbrella - [Umbrella / Fillmore] - (1977) - novella by Marvin Kaye
• 97 - Tween - (1978) - novelette by J. F. Bone
• 121 - The Boy Who Brought Love - (1974) - short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 125 - The Vacation - (1963) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• 133 - The Anything Box - (1956) - short story by Zenna Henderson
• 148 - A Born Charmer - [Dafydd Llewelyn] - (1981) - short story by Edward P. Hughes
• 166 - What If ... - (1952) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 180 - Millennium - (1955) - short story by Fredric Brown
• 182 - Dreams Are Sacred - (1948) - novelette by Peter Phillips
• 206 - The Same to You Doubled - (1970) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 216 - Gifts - (1958) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 230 - I Wish I May, I Wish I Might - (1973) - short story by Bill Pronzini
• 234 - Three Day Magic - (1948) - novella by Charlotte Armstrong
• 321 - The Bottle Imp - (1891) - novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson

A collection of fantasy stories dealing with black magic, temptation, and demonic enchantment includes works by Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Vincent Benet, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, and Philip Jose Farmer...

Table of Contents:

• 9 - The Devil - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 13 - I'm Dangerous Tonight - (1937) - novella by Cornell Woolrich
• 91 - The Devil in Exile - [Devil & Belphagor - 3] - (1968) - short story by Brian Cleeve
• 105 - The Cage - (1959) - short story by Ray Russell
• 113 - The Tale of Ivan the Fool - (1890) - novelette 1886) [as by Leo Tolstoi]
• 143 - The Shepherds - (1941) - short story by Ruth Sawyer
• 151 - He Stepped on the Devil's Tail - (1955) - short story by Winston K. Marks
• 167 - Rustle of Wings - (1953) - short story by Fredric Brown
• 173 - That Hell-Bound Train - (1958) - short story by Robert Bloch
• 189 - Added Inducement - (1957) - short story by Robert F. Young
• 197 - The Devil and Daniel Webster - (1936) - short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 213 - Colt .24 - (1987) - short story by Rick Hautala
• 225 - The Making of Revelation, Part I - (1980) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
• 243 - The Howling Man - (1959) - short story by Charles Beaumont
• 261 - Trace - (1961) - short story by Jerome Bixby
• 265 - Guardian Angel - (1950) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• 309 - The Devil Was Sick - (1951) - short story by Bruce Elliott
• 321 - Deal with the D.E.V.I.L. - (1981) - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 325 - Dazed - (1971) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

A collection of fantastic tales from some of the world's finest science fiction writers brings to life a lost world that still holds out the promise of magical secrets or fatal traps for the curious or unwary...

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction: The Lost City - (1988) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 15 - Treaty in Tartessos - (1963) - short story by Karen Anderson
• 23 - The Vengeance of Ulios - (1935) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• 61 - Scar-Tissue - (1946) - short story by Henry S. Whitehead
• 77 - The Double Shadow - [Poseidonis] - (1933) - short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 95 - The Dweller in the Temple - [Kardios] - (1977) - novelette by Manly Wade Wellman
• 123 - Gone Fishing - (1988) - short story by J. A. Pollard
• 129 - The Lamp - [W. Wilson Newbury] - (1975) - short story by L. Sprague de Camp
• 153 - The Shadow Kingdom - [Kull of Valusia] - (1929) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 193 - The New Atlantis - (1975) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 225 - Dragon Moon - [Elak] - (1941) - novelette by Henry Kuttner
• 273 - The Brigadier in Check -- and Mate - [Brigadier Ffellowes] - (1986) - novella by Sterling E. Lanier

Fourteen chilling tales--including Charles L. Grant's "Come Dance With Me on my Pony's Grave," Parke Godwin's "The Fire When it Comes," and Isaac Asimov's "Author Author"--tells of ghosts returned on quests of justice, love, and vengeance...

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Ghosts - (1988) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Ringing the Changes - (1955) - novelette by Robert Aickman
• 39 - Author! Author! - (1964) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 67 - Touring - (1981) - novelette by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick [as by Jack M. Dann and Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick]
• 85 - The Wind in the Rose-Bush - (1902) - novelette by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• 102 - Come Dance with Me on My Pony's Grave - (1973) - short story by Charles L. Grant
• 115 - The Fire When It Comes - (1981) - novelette by Parke Godwin
• 159 - The Toll-House - (1907) - short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 169 - The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost - (1983) - novelette by Russell Kirk
• 213 - A Terrible Vengeance - (1889) - novelette by Mrs. J. H. Riddell [as by Charlotte Riddell]
• 254 - Elle Est Trois, (La Mort) - (1983) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• 275 - A Passion for History - (1976) - short story by Stephen Minot
• 286 - Daemon - (1946) - short story by C. L. Moore
• 309 - The Lady's Maid's Bell - (1902) - novelette by Edith Wharton
• 329 - The King of Thieves - [Magnus Ridolph] - (1949) - short story by Jack Vance

Tales of dark magic, sinister spells, deadly vengeance, and terrifying powers highlight a collection featuring the work of Wilkie Collins, Robert Bloch, Arthur C. Clarke, and other authors...

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Malevolence - (1989) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 10 - The Curse - (1946) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 13 - Julia Cahill's Curse - (1903) - short story by George Moore
• 19 - The Red Swimmer - (1939) - novelette by Robert Bloch
• 40 - The Doom of the Griffiths - (1858) - novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
• 75 - You Know Willie - (1957) - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 80 - Trouble with Water - (1939) - short story by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold]
• 102 - Mad Monkton - (1855) - novella by Wilkie Collins
• 164 - Long Chromachy of the Crows - (1905) - short story by Seumas MacManus
• 175 - The Little Black Train - [John the Balladeer] - (1954) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 191 - The Curse of the Catafalques - (1882) - novelette by F. Anstey
• 217 - A Séance in Summer - (1974) - short story by Thomas F. Monteleone [as by Mario Martin, Jr.]
• 228 - Transformations - (1989) - short story by Christopher Fahy
• 237 - In Dark New England Days - (1890) - short story by Sarah Orne Jewett
• 256 - The Messenger - (1897) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 292 - Or the Grasses Grow - (1958) - short story by Avram Davidson
• 301 - The Dollar - (1905) - short story by Morgan Robertson
• 317 - A Hunger in the Blood - (1989) - novelette by Talmage Powell

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Fairyland - (1991) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 4 - How the Fairies Came to Ireland - (1902) - short story by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh [as by Herminie Templeton]
• 15 - The Manor of Roses - [John & Stephen] - (1966) - novella by Thomas Burnett Swann
• 79 - The Fairy Prince - (1911) - short story by H. C. Bailey
• 93 - The Ugly Unicorn - (1991) - short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• 105 - The Brownie of the Black Haggs - short story by James Hogg (variant of The Brownie of the Black Hags 1828)
• 121 - The Dream of Akinosuké - (1904) - short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 128 - Elfinland - (1991) - novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Die Elfen 1812) [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck]
• 148 - Darby O'Gill and the Good People - (1901) - short story by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh [as by Herminie Templeton]
• 161 - No Man's Land - novella by John Buchan (variant of No-Man's-Land 1899)
• 208 - The Prism - (1901) - short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins]
• 220 - The Kith of the Elf-Folk - (1908) - short story by Lord Dunsany
• 235 - The Secret Place - (1966) - short story by Richard McKenna
• 252 - The King of the Elves - (1953) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 274 - Flying Pan - (1956) - short story by Robert F. Young
• 284 - My Father, the Cat - (1957) - short story by Henry Slesar
• 292 - Kid Stuff - (1953) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 307 - The Long Night of Waiting - (1974) - short story by Andre Norton
• 325 - The Queen of Air and Darkness - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson

Stories deal with the rise and fall, government, exploration missions, incorporation, and defense of interstellar empires.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Empires - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Cycles - essay by uncredited
• 13 - Chalice of Death - [Lest We Forget Thee, Earth - 1] - (1957) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• 47 - Orphan of the Void - [Terran Federation - 1] - (1972) - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (variant of The Man Who Wasn't Home 1960)
• 92 - Down to the Worlds of Men - (1963) - novelette by Alexei Panshin
• 120 - Governance - essay by uncredited
• 122 - Ministry of Disturbance - [Empire Era] - (1958) - novelette by H. Beam Piper
• 163 - Blind Alley - [Foundation Universe] - (1945) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 186 - A Planet Named Shayol - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 222 - Concerns - essay by uncredited
• 224 - Diabologic - (1955) - short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 245 - Fighting Philosopher - [Philosophical Corps] - (1954) - novelette by Everett B. Cole [as by E. B. Cole]
• 281 - Honorable Enemies - [Dominic Flandry] - (1951) - novelette by Poul Anderson

1984 Signet Classic mass market paperback. Edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh. Sci-fi anthology includes stories by Asimov, George R.R. Martin, L. Sprague de Camp, Mike Resnick, Arthur C. Clarke. Alan Dean Foster and others.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction: Competition! - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 4 - Run to Starlight - (1974) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 33 - The Mickey Mouse Olympics - (1979) - short story by Tom Sullivan
• 47 - Dream Fighter - (1977) - short story by Bob Shaw
• 59 - The Kokod Warriors - [Magnus Ridolph] - (1952) - novelette by Jack Vance
• 94 - Getting Through University - [Dr. Dillingham] - (1968) - novelette by Piers Anthony
• 127 - For the Sake of Grace - [Coyote Jones] - (1969) - novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin
• 150 - The National Pastime - (1973) - novelette by Norman Spinrad
• 169 - A Day for Dying - (1969) - short story by Charles Nuetzel
• 179 - The People Trap - (1968) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 197 - Why Johnny Can't Speed - (1971) - short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 210 - Nothing in the Rules - (1939) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 239 - The Olympians - (1982) - short story by Mike Resnick
• 247 - The Wind from the Sun - (1964) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• 267 - Prose Bowl - (1979) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
• 293 - From Downtown at the Buzzer - (1977) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• 313 - A Glint of Gold - (1980) - short story by Simon Hawke [as by Nicholas V. Yermakov]
• 329 - The Survivor - (1965) - novelette by Walter F. Moudy

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Super - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Angel, Dark Angel - (1967) - short story by Roger Zelazny
• 23 - Worlds to Kill - (1968) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 47 - In the Bone - (1966) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 69 - What Rough Beast? - (1959) - novelette by Damon Knight
• 92 - Death by Ecstasy - [Gil Hamilton] - (1969) - novella by Larry Niven
• 154 - Un-Man - [Psychotechnic League] - (1953) - novella by Poul Anderson
• 236 - Muse - (1969) - short story by Dean R. Koontz
• 247 - Resurrection - (1948) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 265 - Pseudopath - (1959) - novelette by Philip E. High
• 288 - After the Myths Went Home - (1969) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 296 - Before the Talent Dies - (1957) - novelette by Henry Slesar
• 317 - Brood World Barbarian

Tales by Mark Twain, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Frederik Pohl, Arthur C. Clarke, Gregory Benford, and other masters of the science fiction genre explore the realm of comets.

Table of Contents:

• ix - Introduction: Comets - (1986) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 1 - A Blazing Starre Seene in the West - (1642) - short fiction by Jonas Wright
• 5 - Into the Sun - (1882) - short story by Robert Duncan Milne
• 23 - Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - (1907) - short fiction by Mark Twain (variant of Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven)
• 32 - The Comet Doom - (1928) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• 71 - Sunspot - (1960) - short story by Hal Clement
• 93 - Inside the Comet - (1960) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Into the Comet)
• 103 - Raindrop - (1965) - novelette by Hal Clement
• 149 - Comet Wine - (1967) - novelette by Ray Russell
• 167 - The Red Euphoric Bands - (1967) - short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham]
• 180 - Throwback - (1969) - short story by Sydney J. Bounds
• 189 - Kindergarten - (1970) - short story by James E. Gunn
• 192 - West Wind, Falling - (1971) - novelette by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund
• 213 - The Comet, the Cairn and the Capsule - (1972) - short story by Duncan Lunan (variant of Comet, Cairn and Capsule)
• 230 - Some Joys Under the Star - (1973) - short story by Frederik Pohl
• 243 - Future Forbidden - (1973) - short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham]
• 260 - The Death of Princes - (1976) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• 277 - The Funhouse Effect - [Eight Worlds] - (1976) - novelette by John Varley
• 302 - The Family Man - (1978) - short story by Theodore L. Thomas
• 309 - Double Planet - (1984) - short story by John Gribbin [as by Dr. John Gribbin]
• 317 - Pride - (1985) - novelette by Poul Anderson

A collection of science fiction tales of mystery, crime, and detection features works by Stephen R. Donaldson, Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Harlan Ellison, and others.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction (Tin Stars) - (1986) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Into the Shop - (1964) - short story by Ron Goulart
• 22 - Cloak of Anarchy - [Known Space] - (1972) - novelette by Larry Niven
• 44 - The King's Legions - [Federation of Humanity] - (1967) - novelette by Christopher Anvil
• 98 - Finger of Fate - (1980) - short story by Edward Wellen
• 109 - Arm of the Law - (1958) - short story by Harry Harrison
• 126 - Voiceover - (1984) - novelette by Edward Wellen
• 154 - The Fastest Draw - (1963) - short story by Larry Eisenberg
• 163 - Mirror Image - [Elijah Baley / R. Daneel Olivaw] - (1972) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 180 - Brillo - (1970) - novelette by Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison
• 214 - The Powers of Observation - (1968) - short story by Harry Harrison
• 230 - Faithfully Yours - (1955) - short story by Lou Tabakow
• 249 - Safe Harbor - (1986) - novelette by Donald Wismer
• 272 - Examination Day - (1958) - short story by Henry Slesar
• 277 - The Cruel Equations - (1971) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 291 - Animal Lover - (1978) - novella by Stephen R. Donaldson

A medley of tales focusing on humankind's ancestor, the Neanderthal, features works by Poul Anderson, Philip Jose Farmer, Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, and Bertram Chandler.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Neanderthal Man - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Genesis - [Paratime Police] - (1951) - novelette by H. Beam Piper
• 39 - The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of Lastborn)
• 91 - The Long Remembering - (1957) - short story by Poul Anderson
• 106 - The Apotheosis of Ki - (1956) - short story by Miriam Allen deFord
• 113 - Man o' Dreams - (1929) - short story by Will McMorrow
• 130 - The Treasure of Odirex - [Erasmus Darwin] - (1978) - novella by Charles Sheffield
• 196 - The Ogre - (1959) - short story by Avram Davidson
• 206 - Alas, Poor Yorick - [Howie Wyman] - (1981) - short story by Thomas A. Easton
• 223 - The Gnarly Man - (1939) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 251 - The Hairy Parents - (1975) - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
• 263 - The Alley Man - (1959) - novella by Philip José Farmer
• 319 - Afterword: The Valley of Neander - (1964) - essay by Robert Silverberg

Hitchhiker; Truck Driver; Hermes to the Ages; Pushbutton War; The Getaway Special; Between a Rock and a High Place; To Grab Power; Coming of Age in Henson's Tube.

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction: Shuttles - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 13 - Truck Driver - (1972) - short story by Rob Chilson [as by Robert Chilson]
• 31 - Hermes to the Ages - (1980) - novelette by Frederick D. Gottfried
• 63 - Pushbutton War - (1960) - short story by Joseph P. Martino
• 81 - The Last Shuttle - (1981) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 85 - The Getaway Special - (1985) - short story by Jerry Oltion
• 102 - Between a Rock and a High Place - (1982) - novella by Timothy Zahn
• 164 - To Grab Power - (1971) - short story by Hayden Howard
• 182 - Coming of Age in Henson's Tube - (1977) - short story by William John Watkins [as by William Jon Watkins]
• 187 - Deborah's Children - (1983) - short story by Grant Callin [as by Grant D. Callin]
• 207 - The Book of Baraboo - [Circus World] - (1980) - novella by Barry B. Longyear
• 279 - The Speckled Gantry - (1979) - short story by Joseph Green and Patrice Milton
• 285 - The Nanny - (1983) - novelette by Thomas Wylde
• 309 - Hitchhiker - (1987) - short story by Sheila Finch
• 323 - Dead Ringer - novella by Edward Wellen

Tells the stories of mental parasites, extraterrestrial creatures, clones, monstrous aliens, invaders, and colonists.

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction: Monsters - (1988) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 12 - Passengers - (1968) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 25 - The Botticelli Horror - (1960) - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• 64 - The Shapes - (1968) - novelette by J. H. Rosny aîné (trans. of Les Xipéhuz 1887)
• 88 - The Clone - (1959) - short story by Theodore L. Thomas
• 99 - The Men in the Walls - (1963) - novella by William Tenn
• 174 - The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth - (1965) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 206 - Student Body - (1953) - novelette by F. L. Wallace [as by Floyd L. Wallace]
• 227 - Black Destroyer - [Space Beagle] - (1939) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 258 - Mother - (1953) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
• 286 - Exploration Team - [Colonial Survey] - (1956) - novelette by Murray Leinster
• 332 - All the Way Back - (1952) - short story by Michael Shaara

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction: Robots - (1989) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 13 - The Tunnel Under the World - (1955) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• 44 - Brother Robot - (1958) - short story by Henry Slesar
• 59 - The Lifeboat Mutiny - [AAA Ace] - (1955) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 73 - The Warm Space - (1985) - novelette by David Brin
• 89 - How-2 - (1954) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 128 - Too Robot to Marry - (1959) - short story by George H. Smith
• 130 - The Education of Tigress McCardle - (1957) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth (variant of The Education of Tigress Macardle)
• 141 - Sally - (1953) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 159 - Breakfast of Champions - (1980) - short story by Thomas A. Easton
• 165 - Sun Up - (1976) - short story by A. A. Jackson, IV and Howard Waldrop
• 178 - Second Variety - [Claws - 1] - (1953) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 223 - The Problem Was Lubrication - (1961) - short story by David R. Bunch
• 227 - First to Serve - (1954) - short story by Algis Budrys
• 245 - Two-Handed Engine - (1955) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• 270 - Though Dreamers Die - (1944) - novelette by Lester del Rey
• 290 - Soldier Boy - (1953) - novelette by Michael Shaara
• 312 - Farewell to the Master - (1940) - novelette by Harry Bates

Fifteen short stories--by Piers Anthony, Henry Kuttner, A.E. Van Vogt, Lester del Rey, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, and others--explore the theme of an alien invasion of Earth.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction (Invasions) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Living Space - (1956) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 26 - Asylum - (1942) - novella by A. E. van Vogt
• 85 - Exposure - (1950) - short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 104 - Invasion of Privacy - (1970) - novelette by Bob Shaw
• 127 - What Have I Done? - (1952) - short story by Mark Clifton
• 146 - Impostor - (1953) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• 161 - The Soul-Empty Ones - (1951) - novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 200 - The Cloud-Men: Being a Foreprint from the London News Sheet #1 - short story by Owen Oliver (variant of The Cloud-Men, Being a Foreprint from the London News Sheet of March 9, 1915 1911)
• 217 - Stone Man - [Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)] - (1967) - novelette by Fred Saberhagen
• 253 - For I Am a Jealous People! - (1954) - novella by Lester del Rey
• 296 - Don't Look Now - (1948) - short story by Henry Kuttner
• 310 - The Certificate - (1959) - short story by Avram Davidson
• 314 - The Alien Rulers - (1968) - novelette by Piers Anthony
• 350 - Squeeze Box - (1959) - short story by Philip E. High
• 365 - The Liberation of Earth - (1953) - short story by William Tenn

Starr uncovers a Martian plot to ruin the economy of the earth's galactic colonies.

A year has passed since the events in David Starr, Space Ranger. In that time the spaceship TSS Waltham Zachary has been taken and gutted by pirates based in the asteroid belt, and David "Lucky" Starr has come up with a plan to deal with them.

In the sprawling spheres far below the boundless seas of the planet, the earthmen had established an incredible civilization. But now, a series of seemingly trivial accidents threatened to obliterate all that the men had created.

It was Lucky's job, as a representative of the powerful Council of Science, to find the evil and root it out.

Yet by the time he discovered the insidious force which preyed on the minds of men, the only enemy he could hope to destroy . . . was firmly lodged within his own head!

Lucky Starr is sent to Mercury by the Council of Science to determine who is sabotaging Project Light.

Lucky Starr & his sidekick Bigman Jones hunt for a spy and saboteur who is trying to wreck the test flight of the first anti-gravity space ship.

Six weeks after returning from the Jovian system, David "Lucky" Starr receives an urgent visit from Hector Conway, Chief Councilman of the Council of Science. The Council has been sweeping up the Sirian spy ring uncovered by Starr in the Jovian system, but the head of the ring, Jack Dorrance, has eluded capture and escaped from Earth in his one-man spaceship, The Net of Space. A fleet led by Councilman Ben Wessilewsky is in hot pursuit, but there is only one ship that can catch up with Dorrance, and that is Starr's own Shooting Starr.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: So Why Aren't We Rich? (Nebula Award Stories 8) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• A Meeting With Medusa - (1971) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• Shaffery Among the Immortals - (1972) - short story by Frederik Pohl
• Patron of the Arts - (1972) - novelette by William Rotsler
• When It Changed - (1972) - short story by Joanna Russ
• On the Downhill Side - (1972) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• The Fifth Head of Cerberus - (1972) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• When We Went to See the End of the World - (1972) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Goat Song - (1972) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Nebula Awards (Nebula Award Stories 8) - (1973) - essay by uncredited
• Hugo Awards (Nebula Award Stories 8) - (1973) - essay by uncredited

The story came about when, in 1988, Marty Greenberg suggested Asimov find someone who would take his forty-seven year old short story, "Nightfall", and - keeping the story essentially as written - add a detailed beginning and a detailed ending to it. This resulted in the 1990 publication of the novel, Nightfall by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg. As Asimov relates in the Robert Silverberg chapter of his autobiography, "...Eventually, I received the extended Nightfall manuscript from Bob [Silverberg]... Bob did a wonderful job and I could almost believe I had written the whole thing myself. He remained absolutely faithful to the original story and I had very little to argue with.

These two renowned writers have invented a world not unlike our own--a world on the edge of chaos, torn between the madness of religious fanaticism and the stubborn denial of scientists. Only a handful of people on the planet Lagash are prepared to face the truth--that their six suns are setting all at once for the first time in 2,000 years, signaling the end of civilization!

This collection contains a subset of the stories previously published in Nightfall and Other Stories (1969).

Contains:

• Nightfall
• Green Patches
• Hostess
• Breeds There a Man...
• C_Chute

This collection contains the remainder of the stories previously published in Nightfall and Other Stories (1969) not already published in Nightfall One.

Contains:

• "In a Good Cause -"
• "What If -"
• Sally
• Flies
• "Nobody Here But -"
• It's Such a Beautiful Day
• Strikebreaker
• Insert Knob A in Hole B
• The Up-to-Date Sorcerer
• Unto the Fourth Generation
• What Is This Thing Called Love?
• The Machine That Won the War
• My Son, The Physicist
• Eyes Do More Than See
• Segregationist

Table of Contents:

• What Is This Thing Called Love? - (1961)
• Strikebreaker - (1957)
• Sally - (1953)
• Nightfall - (1941)
• Segregationist - (1967)
• Eyes Do More Than See - (1965)
• Green Patches - (1950)
• Hostess - (1951)
• Breeds There a Man...? - (1951)
• Flies - (1953)
• The Up-to-Date Sorcerer - (1958)
• Unto the Fourth Generation - (1959)
• The Machine That Won the War - (1961)
• My Son, the Physicist! - (1962)
• It's Such a Beautiful Day - (1955)
• Insert Knob A in Hole B - (1957)
• "In a Good Cause--" - (1951)
• The C-Chute - (1951)
• Biographical Comments in "Nightfall and Other Stories" - essay by Isaac Asimov
• "Nobody Here But--" - (1953)
• What If-- - (1952)

This autobiography is detailed, showing how the Russian-speaking youth moved from being an English-illiterate to the self-taught genius that all came to know. It relates how he heard people pronounce street names, examined the street signs & figured out how to read before he began his formal education. This is the story as told when he didn't feel that he was running out of time. It has a sense of fun (cf. The Endochronic Properties of Theotimoline 'practice paper' he wrote prior to his Ph.D examination). Ranging widely, it includes whole stories as examples.

The second volume in the autobiography of this prolific science fiction writer, who was also a child prodigy and a renowned professor. This recounts his career from his first book to his 200th, from early rejections to critical acclaim. Photographs, a catalog of his books by Asimov, title and name indexes.

The quintessence of modern science fiction is thought by many to be contained in the novels and short stories of Isaac Asimov, and this new collection of twenty-seven of his early stories again confirms his inexhaustible imagination and compelling style.

Each story is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating, and frequently amusing biographical details about how and when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluations of it. The result is a doubly rich science fiction treat--an assortment of tales that are thoroughly entertaining in their own right besides providing a first-hand look at the development of the young author and promises of the things yet to come from this master writer.

The stories in this collection were subsequently republished in The Early Asimov Volume 1-3.

Table of Contents:

• Biographical Comments - (1972) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Callistan Menace - (1940)
• Ring Around the Sun - (1940)
• The Magnificent Possession - (1940)
• Trends - (1939)
• The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use - (1939)
• Black Friar of the Flame - (1942)
• Half-Breed - (1940)
• The Secret Sense - (1941)
• Homo Sol - (1940)
• Half-Breeds on Venus - (1940)
• The Imaginary - (1942)
• Heredity - (1941)
• History - (1941)
• Christmas on Ganymede - (1942)
• The Little Man on the Subway - (1950) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
• The Hazing - (1942)
• Super-Neutron - (1941)
• Not Final! - (1941)
• Legal Rites - (1950) - novelette by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
• Time Pussy - (1942)
• Author! Author! - (1964)
• Death Sentence - (1943)
• Blind Alley - (1945)
• No Connection - (1948)
• The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline - (1948)
• The Red Queen's Race - (1949)
• Mother Earth - (1949)
• Appendix - The Sixty Stories of the Campbell Years - essay by Isaac Asimov

Contains a subset of the stories originally published in The Early Asimov.

Contains:

• The Callistan Menace
• Ring Around the Sun
• The Magnificent Possession
• Trends
• The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use
• Black Friar of the Flame
• Half Breed
• The Secret Sense

Contains a subset of the stories originally published in The Early Asimov.

Contains:

• Homo Sol
• Half-Breeds on Venus
• The Imaginary
• Heredity
• History
• Christmas on Ganymede
• The Little Man on the Subway
• The Hazing
• Super-Neutron
• Not Final!
• Legal Rites
• Time Pussy (Probability Zero)

Contains a subset of the stories originally published in The Early Asimov.

Contains:

• Author, Author
• Death Sentence
• Blind Alley
• No Connection
• The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline
• The Rd Queen's Race
• Mother Earth

A THOUSAND-YEAR EPIC, A GALACTIC STRUGGLE, A MONUMENTAL WORK IN THE ANNALS OF SCIENCE FICTION

FOUNDATION begins a new chapter in the story of man's future. As the Old Empire crumbles into barbarism throughout the million worlds of the galaxy, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists must create a new entity, the Foundation-dedicated to art, science, and technology-as the beginning of a new empire.

FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE describes the mighty struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars in which man stands at the threshold of a new enlightened life which could easily be destroyed by the old forces of barbarism.

SECOND FOUNDATION follows the Seldon Plan after the First Empire's defeat and describes its greatest threat-a dangerous mutant strain gone wild, which produces a mind capable of bending men's wills, directing their thoughts, reshaping their desires, and destroying the universe.

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.

But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.

The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity's light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence.

Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire - still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.

But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Mule - a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleets - a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.

After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first time—but now he is certain he knows where it lies.

The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. They too want the Second Foundation destroyed…before it destroys them.

At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!

The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man's fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.

It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.

Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... the man who holds the key to the future - an apocalyptic power to be know forever after as the Foundation.

A stunning testament to his creative genius. Forward The Foundation is a the saga's dramatic climax -- the story Asimov fans have been waiting for. An exciting tale of danger, intrigue, and suspense, Forward The Foundation brings to vivid life Asimov's best loved characters: hero Hari Seldon, who struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory to ensure the survival of humanity; Cleon II, the vain and crafty emperor of the Galactic Empire.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1979) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• I, Robot - (1939) - short story by Otto Binder
• The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton - (1939) - short story by Robert Bloch
• Trouble with Water - (1939) - short story by H. L. Gold
• Cloak of Aesir - (1939) - novella by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• The Day Is Done - (1939) - short story by Lester del Rey
• The Ultimate Catalyst - (1939) - short story by John Taine
• The Gnarly Man - (1939) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• Black Destroyer - (1939) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• Greater Than Gods - (1939) - novelette by C. L. Moore
• Trends - (1939) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• The Blue Giraffe - (1939) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• The Misguided Halo - (1939) - short story by Henry Kuttner
• Heavy Planet - (1939) - short story by Milton A. Rothman
• Life-Line - (1939) - short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• Ether Breather - (1939) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• Pilgrimage - (1939) - novelette by Nelson S. Bond
• Rust - (1939) - short story by Joseph E. Kelleam
• The Four-Sided Triangle - (1939) - novelette by William F. Temple
• Star Bright - (1939) - novelette by Jack Williamson
• Misfit - (1939) - novelette by Robert A. Heinlein

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1979) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• The Dwindling Sphere - (1940) - short story by Willard Hawkins
• The Automatic Pistol - (1940) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Hindsight - (1940) - short story by Jack Williamson
• Postpaid to Paradise - (1940) - short story by Robert Arthur
• Into the Darkness - (1940) - novelette by Ross Rocklynne
• Dark Mission - (1940) - short story by Lester del Rey
• It - (1940) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Vault of the Beast - (1940) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• The Impossible Highway - (1940) - short story by Oscar J. Friend
• Quietus - (1940) - short story by Ross Rocklynne
• Strange Playfellow - (1940) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• The Warrior Race - (1940) - short story by L. Sprague de Camp
• Farewell to the Master - (1940) - novelette by Harry Bates
• Butyl and the Breather - (1940) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Exalted - (1940) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• Old Man Mulligan - (1940) - novelette by P. Schuyler Miller

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1980) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Mechanical Mice - (1941) - novelette by Eric Frank Russell and Maurice G. Hugi
• Shottle Bop - (1941) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Rocket of 1955 - (1939) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• Evolution's End - (1941) - short story by Robert Arthur
• Microcosmic God - (1941) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Jay Score - (1941) - short story by Eric Frank Russell
• Liar! - (1941) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• Time Wants A Skeleton - (1941) - novella by Ross Rocklynne
• The Words of Guru - (1941) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Seesaw - (1941) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
• Armageddon - (1941) - short story by Fredric Brown
• Adam and No Eve - (1941) - short story by Alfred Bester
• Solar Plexus - (1941) - short story by James Blish
• Nightfall - (1941) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• A Gnome There Was - (1941) - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• Snulbug - (1941) - short story by Anthony Boucher
• Hereafter, Inc. - (1941) - short story by Lester del Rey

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1980) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• The Star Mouse - (1942) - novelette by Fredric Brown
• The Wings of Night - (1942) - short story by Lester del Rey
• Cooperate - Or Else! - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• Foundation - (1942) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• The Push of a Finger - (1942) - novella by Alfred Bester
• Asylum - (1942) - novella by A. E. van Vogt
• Proof - (1942) - short story by Hal Clement
• Nerves - (1942) - novella by Lester del Rey
• Barrier - (1942) - novella by Anthony Boucher
• The Twonky - (1942) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett ]
• QRM - Interplanetary - (1942) - novelette by George O. Smith
• The Weapon Shop - (1942) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• Mimic - (1942) - short story by Donald A. Wollheim

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1981) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• The Cave - (1943) - novelette by P. Schuyler Miller
• The Halfling - (1943) - novelette by Leigh Brackett
• Mimsy Were the Borogoves - (1943) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• Q. U. R. - (1943) - short story by Anthony Boucher
• Clash by Night - (1943) - novella by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lawrence O'Donnell]
• Exile - (1943) - short story by Edmond Hamilton
• Daymare - (1943) - novelette by Fredric Brown
• Doorway Into Time - (1943) - short story by C. L. Moore
• The Storm - (1943) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• The Proud Robot - (1943) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• Symbiotica - (1943) - novelette by Eric Frank Russell
• The Iron Standard - (1943) - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1981) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Far Centaurus - (1944) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
• Deadline - (1944) - novelette by Cleve Cartmill
• The Veil of Astellar - (1944) - novelette by Leigh Brackett
• Sanity - (1944) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Invariant - (1944) - short story by John R. Pierce
• City - (1944) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• Arena - (1944) - novelette by Fredric Brown
• Huddling Place - [City] - (1944) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
• Kindness - (1944) - short story by Lester del Rey
• Desertion - (1944) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
• When the Bough Breaks - (1944) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• Killdozer! - (1944) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• No Woman Born - (1944) - novelette by C. L. Moore

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1982) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• The Waveries - (1945) - short story by Fredric Brown
• The Piper's Son - (1945) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• Wanted - An Enemy - (1945) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Blind Alley - (1945) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• Correspondence Course - (1945) - short story by Raymond F. Jones
• First Contact - (1945) - novelette by Murray Leinster
• The Vanishing Venusians - (1945) - novelette by Leigh Brackett
• Into Thy Hands - (1945) - short story by Lester del Rey
• Camouflage - (1945) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• The Power - (1945) - short story by Murray Leinster
• Giant Killer - (1945) - novella by A. Bertram Chandler
• What You Need - (1945) - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• De Profundis - (1945) - short story by Murray Leinster
• Pi in the Sky - (1945) - novelette by Fredric Brown

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1982) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• A Logic Named Joe - (1946) - short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
• Memorial - (1946) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• Loophole - (1946) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Nightmare - (1946) - novelette by Chan Davis
• Rescue Party - (1946) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• Placet Is a Crazy Place - (1946) - short story by Fredric Brown
• Conqueror's Isle - (1946) - short story by Nelson S. Bond
• Lorelei of the Red Mist - (1946) - novella by Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury
• The Million Year Picnic - (1946) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Last Objective - (1946) - novelette by Paul A. Carter
• Meihem in ce Klasrum - (1946) - essay by Dolton Edwards
• Vintage Season - (1946) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lawrence O'Donnell]
• Evidence - (1946) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Absalom - (1946) - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• Mewhu's Jet - (1946) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Technical Error - (1946) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1983) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Little Lost Robot - (1947) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Tomorrow's Children - (1947) - novelette by Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop [as by Poul Anderson ]
• Child's Play - (1947) - novelette by William Tenn
• Time and Time Again - (1947) - short story by H. Beam Piper
• Tiny and the Monster - (1947) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• E for Effort - (1947) - novelette by T. L. Sherred
• Letter to Ellen - (1947) - short story by Chan Davis
• The Figure - (1947) - short story by Edward Grendon
• With Folded Hands… - (1947) - novelette by Jack Williamson
• The Fires Within - (1947) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• Zero Hour - (1947) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• Hobbyist - (1947) - novelette by Eric Frank Russell
• Exit the Professor - (1947) - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett ]
• Thunder and Roses - (1947) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1983) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Don't Look Now - (1948) - short story by Henry Kuttner
• He Walked Around the Horses - (1948) - novelette by H. Beam Piper
• The Strange Case of John Kingman - (1948) - short story by Murray Leinster
• That Only a Mother - (1948) - short story by Judith Merril
• The Monster - (1948) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
• Dreams Are Sacred - (1948) - novelette by Peter Phillips
• Mars Is Heaven! - (1948) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• Thang - (1948) - short story by Martin Gardner
• Brooklyn Project - (1948) - short story by William Tenn
• Ring Around the Redhead - (1948) - short story by John D. MacDonald
• Period Piece - (1948) - short story by John R. Pierce [as by J. J. Coupling ]
• Dormant - (1948) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
• In Hiding - (1948) - novelette by Wilmar H. Shiras
• Knock - (1948) - short story by Fredric Brown
• A Child Is Crying - (1948) - short story by John D. MacDonald
• Late Night Final - (1948) - novelette by Eric Frank Russell

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1984) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• The Red Queen's Race - (1949) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Flaw - (1949) - shortstory by John D. MacDonald
• Private Eye - (1949) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett ]
• Manna - (1949) - novelette by Peter Phillips
• The Prisoner in the Skull - (1949) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett ]
• Alien Earth - (1949) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• History Lesson - (1949) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Eternity Lost - (1949) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• The Only Thing We Learn - (1949) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• Private - Keep Out! - (1949) - shortstory by Philip MacDonald
• The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast - (1949) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• Kaleidoscope - (1949) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Defense Mechanism - (1949) - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
• Cold War - (1949) - novelette by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner [as by Henry Kuttner ]
• The Witches of Karres - (1949) - novelette by James H. Schmitz

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1984) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Not With a Bang - (1950) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• Spectator Sport - (1950) - shortstory by John D. MacDonald
• There Will Come Soft Rains - (1950) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Dear Devil - (1950) - novelette by Eric Frank Russell
• Scanners Live in Vain - (1950) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• Born of Man and Woman - (1950) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
• The Little Black Bag - (1950) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• Enchanted Village - (1950) - shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
• Oddy and Id - (1950) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• The Sack - (1950) - shortstory by William Morrison
• The Silly Season - (1950) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• Misbegotten Missionary - (1950) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• To Serve Man - (1950) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• Coming Attraction - (1950) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• A Subway Named Mobius - (1950) - shortstory by A. J. Deutsch
• Process - (1950) - shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
• The Mindworm - (1950) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• The New Reality - (1950) - novelette by Charles L. Harness

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1985) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Null-P - (1951) - shortstory by William Tenn
• The Sentinel - (1951) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Fire Balloons - (1951) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Marching Morons - (1951) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Weapon - (1951) - shortstory by Fredric Brown
• Angel's Egg - (1951) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• "Breeds There a Man--?" - (1951) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Pictures Don't Lie - (1951) - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
• Superiority - (1951) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• I'm Scared - (1951) - shortstory by Jack Finney
• The Quest for Saint Aquin - (1951) - novelette by Anthony Boucher
• Tiger by the Tail - (1951) - shortstory by Alan E. Nourse
• With These Hands - (1951) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• A Pail of Air - (1951) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Dune Roller - (1951) - novelette by Julian May

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1986) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• The Pedestrian - (1951) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Moon Is Green - (1952) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Lost Memory - (1952) - shortstory by Peter Phillips
• What Have I Done? - (1952) - shortstory by Mark Clifton
• Fast Falls the Eventide - (1952) - shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
• The Business, As Usual - (1952) - shortstory by Mack Reynolds
• A Sound of Thunder - (1952) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Hobson's Choice - (1952) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• Yesterday House - (1952) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• The Snowball Effect - (1952) - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
• Delay in Transit - (1952) - novelette by F. L. Wallace
• Game for Blondes - (1952) - shortstory by John D. MacDonald
• The Altar at Midnight - (1952) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• Command Performance - (1952) - novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• The Martian Way - (1952) - novella by Isaac Asimov
• The Impacted Man - (1952) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• What's It Like Out There? - (1952) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• Sail On! Sail On! - (1952) - shortstory by Philip José Farmer
• Cost of Living - (1952) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (1986) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• The Big Holiday (1953) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Crucifixus Etiam (1953) - short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Four in One (1953) - novelette by Damon Knight
• Saucer of Loneliness (1953) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Liberation of Earth (1953) - short story by William Tenn
• Lot [David Jimmon] (1953) - novelette by Ward Moore
• The Nine Billion Names of God (1953) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• Warm (1953) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• Impostor (1953) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• The World Well Lost (1953) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• A Bad Day for Sales (1953) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Common Time (1953) - novelette by James Blish
• Time Is the Traitor (1953) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• The Wall Around the World (1953) - novelette by Theodore R. Cogswell
• The Model of a Judge (1953) - short story by William Morrison
• Hall of Mirrors (1953) - short story by Fredric Brown
• It's a Good Life (1953) - short story by Jerome Bixby

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1987) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• The Test - (1954) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
• Anachron - (1954) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• Black Charlie - (1954) - shortstory by Gordon R. Dickson
• Down Among the Dead Men - (1954) - novelette by William Tenn
• The Hunting Lodge - (1954) - novelette by Randall Garrett
• The Lysenko Maze - (1953) - shortstory by Donald A. Wollheim [as by David Grinnell ]
• Fondly Fahrenheit - (1954) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• The Cold Equations - (1954) - novelette by Tom Godwin
• Letters from Laura - (1954) - shortstory by Mildred Clingerman
• Transformer - (1954) - shortstory by Chad Oliver
• The Music Master of Babylon - (1954) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• The End of Summer - (1954) - novelette by Algis Budrys
• The Father-Thing - (1954) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
• The Deep Range - (1955) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Balaam - (1954) - shortstory by Anthony Boucher
• Man of Parts - (1954) - shortstory by H. L. Gold
• Answer - (1954) - shortstory by Fredric Brown

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1988) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• The Tunnel Under the World - (1955) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• The Darfsteller - (1955) - novella by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• The Cave of Night - (1955) - shortstory by James E. Gunn
• Grandpa - (1955) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• Who? - (1955) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Short Ones - (1955) - novelette by Raymond E. Banks
• Captive Market - (1955) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
• Allamagoosa - (1955) - shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
• The Vanishing American - (1955) - shortstory by Charles Beaumont
• The Game of Rat and Dragon - (1955) - shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
• The Star - (1955) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Nobody Bothers Gus - (1955) - shortstory by Algis Budrys
• Delenda Est - (1955) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Dreaming Is a Private Thing - (1955) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1988) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Brightside Crossing - (1956) - novelette by Alan E. Nourse
• Clerical Error - (1956) - novelette by Mark Clifton
• Silent Brother - (1956) - short story by Algis Budrys
• The Country of the Kind - (1956) - short story by Damon Knight
• Exploration Team - (1956) - novelette by Murray Leinster
• Rite of Passage - (1956) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• The Man Who Came Early - (1956) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• A Work of Art - (1956) - novelette by James Blish
• Horrer Howce - (1956) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
• Compounded Interest - (1956) - short story by Mack Reynolds
• The Doorstop - (1956) - short story by Reginald Bretnor
• The Last Question - (1956) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• Stranger Station - (1956) - novelette by Damon Knight
• 2066: Election Day - (1956) - short story by Michael Shaara
• And Now the News... - (1956) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1989) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Strikebreaker - (1957) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• Omnilingual - (1957) - novelette by H. Beam Piper
• The Mile-Long Spaceship - (1957) - short story by Kate Wilhelm
• Call Me Joe - (1957) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• You Know Willie - (1957) - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
• Hunting Machine - (1957) - short story by Carol Emshwiller
• World of a Thousand Colors - (1957) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Let's Be Frank - (1957) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Cage - (1957) - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
• The Education of Tigress McCardle - (1957) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Tunesmith - (1957) - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• A Loint of Paw - (1957) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• Game Preserve - (1957) - short story by Rog Phillips
• Soldier - (1957) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• The Last Man Left in the Bar - (1957) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1990) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• The Last of the Deliverers - (1958) - short story by Poul Anderson
• The Feeling of Power - (1958) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• Poor Little Warrior! - (1958) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Iron Chancellor - (1958) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Prize of Peril - (1958) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• Or All the Seas with Oysters - (1958) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Two Dooms - (1958) - novella by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Big Front Yard - (1958) - novella by Clifford D. Simak
• The Burning of the Brain - (1958) - short story by Cordwainer Smith
• The Yellow Pill - (1958) - short story by Rog Phillips
• Unhuman Sacrifice - (1958) - novelette by Katherine MacLean
• The Immortals - (1958) - novelette by James E. Gunn

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1990) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Make a Prison - (1959) - short story by Lawrence Block
• The Wind People - (1959) - short story by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• No, No, Not Rogov! - (1959) - short story by Cordwainer Smith
• What Rough Beast? - (1959) - novelette by Damon Knight
• The Alley Man - (1959) - novella by Philip José Farmer
• Day at the Beach - (1959) - short story by Carol Emshwiller
• The Malted Milk Monster - (1959) - novelette by William Tenn
• The World of Heart's Desire - (1959) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• The Man Who Lost the Sea - (1959) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• A Death in the House - (1959) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
• The Pi Man - (1959) - short story by Alfred Bester
• Multum in Parvo - (1959) - short story by Jack Sharkey
• What Now, Little Man? - (1959) - novelette by Mark Clifton
• Adrift on the Policy Level - (1959) - short story by Chan Davis

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1991) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Mariana - (1960) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• The Day the Icicle Works Closed - (1960) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• The Fellow Who Married the Maxill Girl - (1960) - novelette by Ward Moore
• Mine Own Ways - (1960) - short story by Richard McKenna
• Make Mine Homogenized - (1960) - novelette by Rick Raphael
• The Lady Who Sailed the Soul - (1960) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger [as by Cordwainer Smith ]
• I Remember Babylon - (1960) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• Chief - (1960) - short story by Henry Slesar
• Mind Partner - (1960) - novelette by Christopher Anvil
• The Handler - (1960) - short story by Damon Knight
• The Voices of Time - (1960) - novelette by J. G. Ballard

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1991) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• The Highest Treason - (1961) - novella by Randall Garrett
• Hothouse - (1961) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• Hiding Place - (1961) - novella by Poul Anderson
• What Is This Thing Called Love? - (1961) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• A Prize for Edie - (1961) - shortstory by J. F. Bone
• The Ship Who Sang - (1961) - novelette by Anne McCaffrey
• Death and the Senator - (1961) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Quaker Cannon - (1961) - novelette by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
• The Moon Moth - (1961) - novelette by Jack Vance
• A Planet Named Shayol - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• Rainbird - (1961) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night - (1961) - novelette by Algis Budrys
• Remember the Alamo! - (1961) - shortstory by T. R. Fehrenbach [as by R. R. Fehrenbach ]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1992) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• The Insane Ones - (1962) - short story by J. G. Ballard
• Christmas Treason - (1962) - novelette by James White
• Seven-Day Terror - (1962) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
• Kings Who Die - (1962) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity - (1962) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Hang Head, Vandal! - (1962) - short story by Mark Clifton
• The Weather Man - (1962) - novella by Theodore L. Thomas
• Earthlings Go Home! - (1962) - short story by Mack Reynolds
• The Streets of Ashkelon - (1962) - shortstory by Harry Harrison
• When You Care, When You Love - (1962) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Ballad of Lost C'Mell - (1962) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• Gadget vs. Trend - (1962) - short story by Christopher Anvil
• Roofs of Silver - (1962) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1992) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Fortress Ship - (1963) - short story by Fred Saberhagen
• Not in the Literature - (1963) - short story by Christopher Anvil
• The Totally Rich - (1963) - novelette by John Brunner
• No Truce With Kings - (1963) - novella by Poul Anderson
• New Folks' Home - (1963) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• The Faces Outside - (1963) - short story by Bruce McAllister
• Hot Planet - (1963) - short story by Hal Clement
• The Pain Peddlers - (1963) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Turn Off the Sky - (1963) - novelette by Ray Nelson
• They Don't Make Life Like They Used To - (1963) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• Bernie the Faust - (1963) - novelette by William Tenn
• A Rose for Ecclesiastes - (1963) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• If There Were No Benny Cemoli - (1963) - novelette by Philip K. Dick

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1968 to 1969 (and the Short Story winner from 1970), each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. This is the paperback reprint edition of the second half of the original hardback volume 2 of the series (the hardback was too large to conveniently reprint in paperback and was therefore split into halves).

Table of Contents:

• A Few More Words-Unexpectedly - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Weyr Search - (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey
• Riders of the Purple Wage - (1967) - novella by Philip José Farmer
• Gonna Roll the Bones - (1967) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Nightwings - (1968) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• The Sharing of Flesh - (1968) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World - (1968) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - (1968) - novelette by Samuel R. Delany

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1963 to 1967, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. This is the paperback reprint edition of the first half of the original hardback volume 2 of the series (the hardback was too large to conveniently reprint in paperback and was therefore split into halves).

Table of Contents:

• Here I Am Again - (1971) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Dragon Masters - (1962) - novella by Jack Vance
• No Truce With Kings - (1963) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Soldier, Ask Not - (1964) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Last Castle - (1966) - novella by Jack Vance
• Neutron Star - (1966) - novelette by Larry Niven

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1971 to 1972 (and the Novella winner from 1970), each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. This is the paperback reprint edition of the first half of the original hardback volume 3 of the series (the hardback was too large to conveniently reprint in paperback and was therefore split into halves).

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Third Time Around - (1977) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Ship of Shadows - (1969) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• Ill Met in Lankhmar - (1970) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• Slow Sculpture - (1970) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Queen of Air and Darkness - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Inconstant Moon - (1971) - novelette by Larry Niven

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1973 to 1975, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. This is the paperback reprint edition of the second half of the original hardback volume 3 of the series (the hardback was too large to conveniently reprint in paperback and was therefore split into halves).

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Hugo Winners) - (1977) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Word for World Is Forest - (1972) - novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Goat Song - (1972) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Meeting - (1972) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
• Eurema's Dam - (1972) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• The Girl Who Was Plugged In - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - (1973) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• A Song for Lya - (1974) - novella by George R. R. Martin
• Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W - (1974) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• The Hole Man - (1974) - shortstory by Larry Niven
• Afterword - (1977) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Appendix: The Hugo Awards 1973-75 - (1977) - essay by uncredited

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1955 to 1961, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Allamagoosa - (1955) - shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
• Exploration Team - (1956) - novelette by Murray Leinster
• Flowers for Algernon - (1959) - novelette by Daniel Keyes
• Or All the Seas with Oysters - (1958) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• That Hell-Bound Train - (1958) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
• The Big Front Yard - (1958) - novella by Clifford D. Simak
• The Darfsteller - (1955) - novella by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• The Longest Voyage - (1960) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Star - (1955) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Appendix: The Hugo Awards - essay by uncredited

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1963 to 1969, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. Also included is the 1970 Short Story winner (the two 1970 winners were split between volume 2 and volume 3 of the series). Not included is the 1962 winner, Hothouse (The Long Afternoon of Earth), which was never included in any volume of the series.

Table of Contents:

• Here I Am Again - (1971) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Dragon Masters - (1962) - novella by Jack Vance
• No Truce With Kings - (1963) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Soldier, Ask Not - (1964) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Last Castle - (1966) - novella by Jack Vance
• Neutron Star - (1966) - novelette by Larry Niven
• Weyr Search - (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey
• Riders of the Purple Wage - (1967) - novella by Philip José Farmer
• Gonna Roll the Bones - (1967) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Nightwings - (1968) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• The Sharing of Flesh - (1968) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World - (1968) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - (1968) - novelette by Samuel R. Delany
• Appendix: Hugo Awards 1962-70 - (1971) - essay by uncredited

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1971 to 1975, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. Also included is the 1970 Novella winner (the two 1970 winners were split between volume 2 and volume 3 of the series).

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Third Time Around - (1977) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Ship of Shadows - (1969) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• Ill Met in Lankhmar - (1970) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• Slow Sculpture - (1970) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Queen of Air and Darkness - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Inconstant Moon - (1971) - novelette by Larry Niven
• The Word for World Is Forest - (1972) - novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Goat Song - (1972) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Meeting - (1972) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
• Eurema's Dam - (1972) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• The Girl Who Was Plugged In - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - (1973) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• A Song for Lya - (1974) - novella by George R. R. Martin
• Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W - (1974) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• The Hole Man - (1974) - shortstory by Larry Niven
• Afterword - (1977) - essay by Isaac Asimov

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1976 to 1979, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: What Again? - (1985) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Home is the Hangman - (1975) - novella by Roger Zelazny
• The Borderland of Sol - (1975) - novelette by Larry Niven
• Catch That Zeppelin! - (1975) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• By Any Other Name - (1976) - novella by Spider Robinson
• Houston, Houston, Do You Read? - (1976) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Tricentennial - (1976) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• Stardance - (1977) - novella by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson
• Eyes of Amber - (1977) - novelette by Joan D. Vinge
• Jeffty Is Five - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Persistence of Vision - (1978) - novella by John Varley
• Hunter's Moon - (1978) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Cassandra - (1978) - shortstory by C. J. Cherryh

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1980 to 1982, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: My Magazine - (1986) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 1980: 38th Convention, Boston - (1986) - essay by Barry B. Longyear
• Enemy Mine - (1979) - novella by Barry B. Longyear
• Sandkings - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• The Way of Cross and Dragon - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 1981: 39th Convention, Denver - (1986) - essay by Gordon R. Dickson
• Lost Dorsai - (1980) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson
• The Cloak and the Staff - (1980) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• Grotto of the Dancing Deer - (1980) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
• 1982: 40th Convention, Chicago - (1986) - essay by Poul Anderson
• The Saturn Game - (1981) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Unicorn Variation - (1981) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• The Pusher - (1981) - shortstory by John Varley

Contents:

• ix - Introduction: Science Fiction Finds Its Voice - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 1 - The Shadow Out of Time - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novella by H. P. Lovecraft
• 62 - A Matter of Form - (1938) - novella by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold]
• 119 - Jane Brown's Body - (1938) - novella by Cornell Woolrich
• 188 - Who Goes There? - [Who Goes There?] - (1938) - novella by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• 241 - Sidewise in Time - (1934) - novella by Murray Leinster
• 292 - Alas, All Thinking! - (1935) - novelette by Harry Bates
• 328 - Seeker of Tomorrow - (1937) - novella by Leslie J. Johnson and Eric Frank Russell (variant of Seeker of To-morrow) [as by L. T. Johnson and Eric Frank Russell]
• 367 - Dawn of Flame - [Margaret of Urbs] - (1936) - novella by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• 425 - Divide and Rule - (1939) - novella by L. Sprague de Camp
• 505 - Wolves of Darkness - (1932) - novella by Jack Williamson

Contents:

• 1 - Introduction: The Age of Campbell - (1989) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 7 - Time Wants a Skeleton - (1941) - novella by Ross Rocklynne
• 60 - The Weapons Shop - [Weapon Shops of Isher] - (1946) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt (variant of The Weapon Shop 1942)
• 97 - Nerves - (1942) - novella by Lester del Rey
• 167 - Daymare - (1943) - novelette by Fredric Brown
• 205 - Killdozer! - (1944) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• 269 - No Woman Born - (1944) - novella by C. L. Moore
• 313 - The Big and the Little - [Foundation (Original Stories) - 3] - (1944) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 369 - Giant Killer - (1945) - novelette by A. Bertram Chandler
• 414 - E for Effort - (1947) - novelette by T. L. Sherred
• 462 - With Folded Hands... - [Humanoids] - (1947) - novelette by Jack Williamson

Contents:

• [7] - The Age of the Troika - (1990) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 1 - Flight to Forever - (1950) - novella by Poul Anderson
• 48 - The Martian Way - (1952) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 91 - Second Game - [Kalin Trobt] - (1958) - novelette by Charles V. De Vet and Katherine MacLean
• 130 - Dark Benediction - (1951) - novella by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 180 - The Midas Plague - (1954) - novella by Frederik Pohl
• 231 - The Oceans Are Wide - (1954) - novella by Frank M. Robinson
• 296 - ... And Then There Were None - (1951) - novella by Eric Frank Russell
• 361 - Baby Is Three - (1952) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• 414 - Firewater - (1952) - novella by William Tenn
• 464 - The Alley Man - (1959) - novella by Philip José Farmer

Contents:

• 1 - The Eve of RUMOKO - [Nemo] - (1969) - novella by Roger Zelazny
• 51 - The Night of the Trolls - [Bolo] - (1963) - novella by Keith Laumer
• 97 - Mercenary - [Joe Mauser] - (1962) - novella by Mack Reynolds
• 148 - Soldier, Ask Not - [Childe Cycle] - (1964) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson
• 201 - Weyr Search - [Dragonriders of Pern short fiction] - (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey
• 251 - Code Three - [Code Three] - (1963) - novella by Rick Raphael
• 301 - How It Was When the Past Went Away - (1969) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• 356 - The Highest Treason - (1961) - novella by Randall Garrett
• 409 - Hawk Among the Sparrows - (1968) - novella by Dean McLaughlin
• 454 - The Suicide Express - [Riverworld] - (1966) - novella by Philip José Farmer

Contents:

• 1 - Born with the Dead - [Born with the Dead - 1] - (1974) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• 65 - The Moon Goddess and the Son - (1979) - novella by Donald Kingsbury
• 118 - Tin Soldier - (1974) - novella by Joan D. Vinge
• 161 - In the Problem Pit - (1973) - novella by Frederik Pohl
• 213 - Riding the Torch - (1974) - novella by Norman Spinrad
• 276 - Mouthpiece - (1974) - novella by Edward Wellen
• 343 - ARM - [Gil Hamilton] - (1975) - novella by Larry Niven
• 398 - The Persistence of Vision - (1978) - novella by John Varley
• 443 - The Queen of Air and Darkness - [The Queen of Air and Darkness] - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson
• 486 - The Monster and the Maiden - (1976) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson

Contents:

• 1 - Slow Music - (1980) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 47 - Le Croix (The Cross) - (1980) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
• 90 - Scorched Supper on New Niger - (1980) - novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
• 126 - The Saturn Game - [Technic History] - (1981) - novella by Poul Anderson
• 179 - Hardfought - (1983) - novella by Greg Bear
• 244 - Swarmer, Skimmer - (1981) - novella by Gregory Benford
• 316 - Sailing to Byzantium - (1985) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• 377 - Trinity - (1984) - novella by Nancy Kress
• 426 - The Blind Geometer - (1986) - novella by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 476 - Surfacing - (1988) - novella by Walter Jon Williams

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1983 to 1985, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1989) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Souls - (1982) - novella by Joanna Russ
• Fire Watch - (1982) - novelette by Connie Willis
• Melancholy Elephants - (1982) - shortstory by Spider Robinson
• Cascade Point - (1983) - novella by Timothy Zahn
• Blood Music - (1983) - novelette by Greg Bear
• Speech Sounds - (1983) - shortstory by Octavia E. Butler
• Press Enter [] - (1984) - novella by John Varley
• Bloodchild - (1984) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• The Crystal Spheres - (1984) - shortstory by David Brin
• Appendix - (1989) - essay by uncredited

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1986 to 1988.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai - (1985) - novella by Roger Zelazny
• Paladin of the Lost Hour - (1985) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Fermi and Frost - (1985) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• Gilgamesh in the Outback - (1986) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• Permafrost - (1986) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• Tangents - (1986) - shortstory by Greg Bear
• Eye for Eye - (1987) - novella by Orson Scott Card
• Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight - (1987) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers - (1987) - shortstory by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• Appendix: The Hugo Awards - essay by uncredited

A beautifully logical tale of a robot who simply couldn't tell the truth!

This short story is in the Susan Calvin series a Sub-series of: The Positronic Robot Stories

The story is included in the collections:

• The Complete Robot (1982)
• I, Robot (1950)
• The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 3, (1941)

It first appeared in the May, 1941 Issue of Astounding Science Fiction, available on Internet Archives.

Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Stellar #2 (1976) edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey. It has been reprinted many times and can be found in the anthologies:

• The 1977 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 (1977), edited by Terry Carr
• Nebula Winners Twelve (1978), edited by Gordon R. Dickson
• The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980), edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
• Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots and Computers (1984) edited by Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick and Martin H. Greenberg
• Philosophy and Science Fiction (1984) edited by Michael Philips
• The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: (1976-79) (1985), edited by Isaac Asimov

The story is included in the collections:

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976)
• Opus 200 (1979)
• The Complete Robot (1982)
• The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov (1989)
• Robot Visions (1990)
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2 (1992)

The story was later expanded into the novel The Positronic Man (1992), written in collaboration with Robert Silverberg. It has been turned into a movie starring Robin Williams.

The complete collection of Isaac Asimov's classic Robot stories.In these stories, Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age - when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind.The Complete Robot is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with suprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Complete Robot) - (1982) - essay
• Some Non-Human Robots - (1982) - essay
• A Boy's Best Friend - (1975) - short story
• Sally - (1953) - short story
• Someday - (1956) - short story
• Some Immobile Robots - (1982) - essay
• Point of View - (1975) - short story
• Think! - (1977) - short story
• True Love - (1977) - short story
• Some Metallic Robots - (1982) - essay
• Robot AL-76 Goes Astray - (1942) - short story
• Victory Unintentional - (1942) - short story
• Stranger in Paradise - (1974) - novelette
• Light Verse - (1973) - short story
• Segregationist - (1967) - short story
• Robbie - (1940) - short story
• Some Humanoid Robots - (1982) - essay
• Let's Get Together - (1957) - short story
• Mirror Image - (1972) - short story
• The Tercentenary Incident - (1976) - short story
• Powell and Donovan - (1982) - essay
• First Law - (1956) - short story
• Runaround - (1942) - novelette
• Reason - (1941) - short story
• Catch That Rabbit - (1944) - short story
• Susan Calvin - (1982) - essay
• Liar! - (1941) - short story
• Satisfaction Guaranteed - (1951) - short story
• Lenny - (1958) - short story
• Galley Slave - (1957) - novelette
• Little Lost Robot - (1947) - novelette
• Risk - (1955) - novelette
• Escape! - (1945) - short story
• Evidence - (1946) - novelette
• The Evitable Conflict - (1950) - novelette
• Feminine Intuition - (1969) - novelette
• Two Climaxes - (1982) - essay
• --That Thou Art Mindful of Him! - (1974) - novelette
• The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette
• A Last Word - (1982) - essay

The three laws of Robotics:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
2. A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.

Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world--all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asmiov's trademark.

Table of Contents: sub-series in [ ] all sub-series are part of the The Positronic Robot Stories series

• Introduction (I, Robot) - short story
• Robbie (1940) - short story (variant of Strange Playfellow)
• Runaround - [Mike Donovan] (1942) - novelette
• Reason - [Mike Donovan] (1941) - short story
• Catch That Rabbit - [Mike Donovan] (1944) - short story
• Liar! - [Susan Calvin] (1941) - short story
• Little Lost Robot - [Susan Calvin] (1947) - novelette
• Escape! - [Susan Calvin] (1945) - short story
• Evidence - [Susan Calvin] - (1946) - novelette
• The Evitable Conflict - [Susan Calvin] - (1950) - novelette

Contains:

• Robot AL-76 Goes Astray
• Victory Unintentional
• Let's Get Together
• First Law
• Satisfaction Guaranteed
• Lenny
• Galley Slave
• Risk

In a twenty-first century Earth where the development of the positronic brain has revolutionized the way of life, beloved household robot "Andrew" struggles with his unusual capacity for emotion and dreams of becoming human.

From the writer whose name is synonymous with the science of robotics comes five decades of robot visions-36 landmark stories and essays, plus three rare tales-gathered together in one volume .

The Ugly Little Boy:

A small Neanderthal boy is brought into the future for scientific experimentation. The nurse who takes care of him, starts to see him as something other than a experimental subject.

The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff:

Only Robin could really see the Aliens...

One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil--so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty. Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.

This is young Isaac Asimov's first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation series. This is Golden Age SF at its finest.

Biron Farrell was young and naïve, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desperately from an unknown assassin.

He soon discovers that, many light-years away, his father, the highly respected Rancher of Widemos, has been murdered. Stunned, grief-stricken, and outraged, Biron is determined to uncover the reasons behind his father's death, and becomes entangled in an intricate saga of rebellion, political intrigue, and espionage.

The mystery takes him deep into space where he finds himself in a relentless struggle with the power-mad despots of Tyrann. Now it is not just a case of life or death for Biron, but a question of freedom for the galaxy.

High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters.

Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible. Not only do the Florinians no longer have a concept of freedom, any disruption of the vital kyrt trade would cause other planets to rise in protest, ultimately destabilizing trade and resulting in a galactic war. So the Trantorian Empire, whose grand plan is to unite all humanity in peace, prosperity, and freedom, has stood aside and allowed the oppression to continue.

Living among the workers of Florinia, Rik is a man without a memory or a past. He has been abducted and brainwashed. Barely able to speak or care for himself when he was found, Rik is widely regarded as a simpleton by the worker community where he lives. But as his memories begin to return, Rik finds himself driven by a cryptic message he is determined to deliver: Everyone on Florinia is doomed . . . the Currents of Space are bringing destruction. But if the planet is evacuated, the power of Sark will end--so some would finish the job and would kill the messenger. The fate of the Galaxy hangs in the balance.