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Comets
| Author: | Isaac Asimov Martin H. Greenberg Charles G. Waugh |
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Signet, 1986 |
| Series: | Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction: Book 4 |
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1. Intergalactic Empires |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
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
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