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2) Foundation
3) Youth
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.
The first section contains stories that range from the humorous to the profound, at the heart of which is the title story, "Gold," a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything
...Christmas on Ganymede by Isaac Asimov - Consider the problems of miners who work on Ganymede, moon of Jupiter, 390,000,000 miles from earth: isolated on a world so different from our own, surrounded by beings who know nothing of our traditions, how might these men teach their alien work-mates how we celebrate Christmas?
Olaf Johnson hummed nasally to himself and his china-blue eyes were dreamy as he surveyed the stately fir
...12) Time Pussy
Time Pussy by Isaac Asimov - Four-dimensional cats? Who ever heard of such a thing? Old Mac had seen these Time Pussies with his own eyes!
This was told me long ago by old Mac, who lived in a shack just over the hill from my old house. He had been a mining prospector out in the old asteroids during the Rush of '37, and spent most of his time now in feeding his 7 cats.
"What makes you like cats so much, Mr Mac?" I asked
...13) One Hundred
Eleven essential classics in one volume
This last volume in the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964 contains eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.
Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers
...1940s Science Fiction 2 - 16 Science Fiction Short Stories From the 1940s
18) Everest
Everest by Isaac Asimov - Perhaps you've read how Everest has now been climbed? But have you heard of Planetary Survey? Here's the real truth about it. (Everest has been climbed twice)
In 1952 they were about ready to give up trying to climb Mt. Everest. It was the photographs that kept them going.
As photographs go, they weren't much; fuzzy, streaked and with just dark blobs against the white to be interested in. But
...The Magnificent Possession by Isaac Asimov - Walter Sills labored for years as an unknown laboratory worker—but at fifty he makes his great discovery! Fame, riches are to be his fate—until interference looms up in the form of a few unlikeable characters — and Nature herself!
Future Fiction Magazine published its first issue in November 1939, two issues later in July 1940 the new science fiction magazine featured stories by Dennis Clive,
...20) The Pause
The Pause by Isaac Asimov
The white powder was confined within a thin-walled, transparent capsule. The capsule in turn was heat-sealed into a double strip of parafilm. Along that strip of parafilm were other capsules at six-inch intervals.
The strip moved. Each capsule in the course of events rested for one minute on a metal jaw immediately beneath a mica window. On another portion of the face of the radiation counter a number clicked
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