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Magical Worlds of Fantasy #6
Mythical Beasties: Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 6
Stories by Tanith Lee, Theodore Sturgeon, Hans Christian Andersen, and others highlight a collection of fantasy tales about such legendary creatures as unicorns, mermaids, sea monsters, and centaurs
343 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 6, 1986
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Isaac Asimov
4,339 books27.9k followersWorks of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles,
The Foundation Trilogy
(1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
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May 18, 2014
Well I am sure by now you get the idea that these are the US versions, while I am reading the (less inspiring covered) UK editions. Anyway enough of that so what really can I add that I have not already said with previous books in this series sadly not much that I can add except that I feel this is a greatly over looked series of anthologies with some very creative takes on their briefs. All I would say is that it is surprising how much you can read while waiting for your computer to recover - or in the case of mine not - from the results of a power outage in the middle of the night.
August 5, 2016
The complete opposite of Fairies in both quality and pacing. Entertaining, original, and at times very hard to put down.
As with any anthology has good and bad parts, but enough of them were good to make it worth it (mostly clustered near the beginning, for your convenience).
As with any anthology has good and bad parts, but enough of them were good to make it worth it (mostly clustered near the beginning, for your convenience).
October 7, 2015
Extremely uneven... And the balance doesn't really come out in its favor. The name Asimov on here is true but misleading, as all he wrote were short, basic descriptions of different mythological creatures. Basically, there are way better short story collections, and there's better Asimov too.
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August 22, 2008Mythical Beasties (Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy No. 6) by Isaac Asimov (1986)
April 8, 2018
An anthology of speculative fiction themed around mythic beasts, and including stories on creatures such as mermaids, centaurs, and dragons. There's 13 stories in here, for 13 different beasts, and as a collection it's better, I think, than a companion book based around magic spells that I also read recently. This particular anthology is one I received as a child, and I've just reread it. Strange how some of the stories have stuck with me through the years, while others I've blocked out entirely as being of very little interest... and as an adult rereading, my judgement on each remains the same. The stand-outs here are Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" and two of the sci-fi offerings: Jack Vance's "The Kragen" and F.A. Javor's "The Triumph of Pegasus". My absolute favourite, however, and one of my favourite short stories of all time, is Tanith Lee's "The Gorgon", which is strong and sad and memorable - together these stories are enough to merit this anthology 4 stars. Unfortunately the book as a whole could use a stronger ending - the last 3-4 stories are distinctly the weakest of the bunch.
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