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Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #7
Space Shuttles
A FIRST-CLASS TICKET TO THE STARS. Shuttle - Isaac Asimov; Truck Driver - Robert Chilson; Hermes to the Ages - Frederick D. Gottfried; Pushbutton War - Joseph P. Martino; The Last Shuttle - Isaac Asimov; The Getaway Special - Jerry Oltion; Between a Rock and a High Place - Timothy Zahn; To Grab Power - Hayden Howard; Coming of Age in Henson's Tube - William Jon Watkins; Deborah's Children - Grant D. Callin; The Book of Baraboo - Barry B. Longyear; The Speckled Gantry - Joseph Green and Patrice Milton; The Nanny - Thomas Wylde; Hitchhiker - Sheila Finch; Dead Ringer - Edward Wellen. Down through the years, one of the basic premises of science fiction was that someday humans would leave planet Earth behind and reach for the stars. Now, of course, science fiction has become science fact, yet there still remains much to explore, and, as always, science fiction remains in the forefront of those explorations. The unique and powerful stories included in this special collection are tales of tomorrow's technology and of the men and women brave enough to pilot us along the unknown pathways to the stars. Truck Driver by Robert Chilson - She'd taken on a payload and sworn to see it in orbit, but no one had warned her that spacejackers might have a different flight plan laid out for her and her cargo... Pushbutton War by Joseph P. Martino - When computerized weapons guarded the starways, was there any role left for a mere man in the game of war? The Last Shuttle by Isaac Asimov - She'd go down in the history books as Earth's last shuttle pilot, but was she the herald of the end of an age - or the beginning? Between a Rock and a High Place by Timothy Zahn - They'd found the ultimate way to commute via flying skyports, but now a skycrash might bring them all down to Earth far too soon! Book your passage to the planets and beyond, with this and the other tales you'll find in Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction.
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 6, 1987
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About the author
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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