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Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 1: 1939
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 1 1939 Author:Isaac Asimov (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg selected their favorite SF stories from the "Golden Years" of Science Fiction (1939-1963) and published them in a 25 volume set (one book for each year), an anthology collection of the greatest science fiction stories of modern times. — Starting with the time-tested classics of 1939, Asimov bri... more »ngs you, year by year, those stories which have stood the test of time, which have become the masterworks on which others have built, and which will always remain jewels in the cabinet of science fiction. And of course Isaac Asimov himself, who, with collaborator Greenberg, introduces each story and tells what it meant in the rise of modern science fiction. Cover by Gaughan.
Contents:
Introduction (The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) (1979) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg
I, Robot [Adam Link] (1966) / short story by Otto Binder (variant of "I, Robot" 1939) [as by Eando 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 [Sarn] (1939) / novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart]
The Day Is Done (1939) / short story by Lester del Rey
The Ultimate Catalyst (1939) / novelette by John Taine
The Gnarly Man (1939) / novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
Black Destroyer [Space Beagle] (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 [Future History] (1939) / short story by Robert A. Heinlein
Ether Breather [Ether Breather] (1939) / short story by Theodore Sturgeon
Pilgrimage [Meg • 4] (1939) / novelette by Nelson S. Bond [as by Nelson Bond]
Rust (1939) / short story by Joseph E. Kelleam
The Four-Sided Triangle (1939) / novelette by William F. Temple (variant of The 4-Sided Triangle)
Star Bright (1939) / novelette by Jack Williamson
Misfit [Future History] (1939) / novelette by Robert A. Heinlein