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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