13 Short Science Fiction Novels
by Isaac Asimov (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Charles G. Waugh (Editor)
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Contains: "Novellas" by Isaac Asimov, "Profession" by Isaac Asimov, "Who goes there?" by John W. Campbell, Jr., "For I am a jealous people!" by Lester Del Rey, "The mortal and the monster" by Gordon R. Dickson, "Time safari" by David Drake, "In the Western tradition" by Phyllis Eisenstein, "The alley man" by Philip Jose Farmer, "The moon goddess and the son" by Donald Kingsbury, "Enemy mine" by Barry Longyear, "Flash crowd" by Larry Niven, "In the problem pit" by Frederik Pohl, "The desert show more of stolen dreams" by Robert Silverberg.Presents 13 short novels from the masters of science fiction. show lessTags
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Mistitled: they are stories not novels. Maybe even paragraphs in a Stephen King novel. They are great stories though! This is quite a varied collection of good old fashioned SciFi. It is always fun to see things that are prophetic and also things that are off the mark. The tidbit that made me smile was only an aside to the story: mention of a switchboard and a telephone operator.
It's a pretty good collection of classics. Most hold up well, but that just might be me talking.
Good stuff from old favorites. Some to be read and some to be reread.
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Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia, on January 2, 1920. His family emigrated to the United States in 1923 and settled in Brooklyn, New York, where they owned and operated a candy store. Asimov became a naturalized U.S. citizen at the age of eight. As a youngster he discovered his talent for writing, producing his first original fiction at show more the age of eleven. He went on to become one of the world's most prolific writers, publishing nearly 500 books in his lifetime. Asimov was not only a writer; he also was a biochemist and an educator. He studied chemistry at Columbia University, earning a B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. In 1951, Asimov accepted a position as an instructor of biochemistry at Boston University's School of Medicine even though he had no practical experience in the field. His exceptional intelligence enabled him to master new systems rapidly, and he soon became a successful and distinguished professor at Columbia and even co-authored a biochemistry textbook within a few years. Asimov won numerous awards and honors for his books and stories, and he is considered to be a leading writer of the Golden Age of science fiction. While he did not invent science fiction, he helped to legitimize it by adding the narrative structure that had been missing from the traditional science fiction books of the period. He also introduced several innovative concepts, including the thematic concern for technological progress and its impact on humanity. Asimov is probably best known for his Foundation series, which includes Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. In 1966, this trilogy won the Hugo award for best all-time science fiction series. In 1983, Asimov wrote an additional Foundation novel, Foundation's Edge, which won the Hugo for best novel of that year. Asimov also wrote a series of robot books that included I, Robot, and eventually he tied the two series together. He won three additional Hugos, including one awarded posthumously for the best non-fiction book of 1995, I. Asimov. "Nightfall" was chosen the best science fiction story of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America. In 1979, Asimov wrote his autobiography, In Memory Yet Green. He continued writing until just a few years before his death from heart and kidney failure on April 6, 1992. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 - June 25, 2011) was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books; he was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Some of his anthologies included: Past Imperfect (2001), Once Upon a Galaxy show more (2002) and Sirius: The Dog Star (2004). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Charles Waugh is an associate professor of English at Utah State University and the editor and translator (with Nguyn Lien) of Family of Fallen Leaves: Stories of Agent Orange by Vietnamese Writers. Nguyn Lien was a writer, scholar, and teacher who translated many international works of literature into Vietnamese. Van Gi is the dean of the Faculty show more of Creative Writing at the University of Culture in Hanoi. show less
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- 13 Short Science Fiction Novels
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- 13 Short Science Fiction Novels
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- Baker's Dozen : 13 Short Science Fiction Novels
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- English
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- Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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- 813.0876 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction
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- PS648 .S3 .B27 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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