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Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction
Contents
9 • The Scientist As Villain • [Asimov's Editorials] • (1979) • essay by Isaac Asimov
13 • Gift of a Useless Man • (1979) • shortstory by Alan Dean Foster
26 • Mandalay • [Alternities, Inc.] • (1979) • novelette by John M. Ford
55 • The Toroids of Dr. Klonefake • [SF Puzzles] • (1978) • shortstory by Martin Gardner
56 • The Tryouts • [Circus World] • (1978) • shortstory by Barry B. Longyear
72 • A Growing Concern • (1978) • shortstory by Arnie Bateman
74 • Written in Sand • (1979) • shortstory by Rob Chilson [as by Robert Chilson ]
90 • The Man with the Eye • (1978) • shortstory by Phyllis Eisenstein
108 • As Chemist to Chemist • (1970) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov (aka A Problem of Numbers)
113 • Bat Durston, Space Marshal • (1978) • shortstory by G. Richard Bozarth
120 • The Bitter End • [Lord Darcy] • (1978) • novelette by Randall Garrett
156 • The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus • [Anderson] • (1979) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
167 • On Man's Rôle in the Galaxy • (1978) • essay by R. N. Bracewell
174 • The Thaw • (1979) • novelette by Tanith Lee
196 • Inevitability Sphere • (1978) • shortstory by Jeff Duntemann
205 • Scrap from the Notebooks of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • (1978) • shortstory by K. W. MacAnn
206 • Wolkenheim Fairday • [Far Stars and Future Times] • (1980) • novelette by Richard S. McEnroe
228 • Ker-Plop • (1979) • novella by Ted Reynolds
9 • The Scientist As Villain • [Asimov's Editorials] • (1979) • essay by Isaac Asimov
13 • Gift of a Useless Man • (1979) • shortstory by Alan Dean Foster
26 • Mandalay • [Alternities, Inc.] • (1979) • novelette by John M. Ford
55 • The Toroids of Dr. Klonefake • [SF Puzzles] • (1978) • shortstory by Martin Gardner
56 • The Tryouts • [Circus World] • (1978) • shortstory by Barry B. Longyear
72 • A Growing Concern • (1978) • shortstory by Arnie Bateman
74 • Written in Sand • (1979) • shortstory by Rob Chilson [as by Robert Chilson ]
90 • The Man with the Eye • (1978) • shortstory by Phyllis Eisenstein
108 • As Chemist to Chemist • (1970) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov (aka A Problem of Numbers)
113 • Bat Durston, Space Marshal • (1978) • shortstory by G. Richard Bozarth
120 • The Bitter End • [Lord Darcy] • (1978) • novelette by Randall Garrett
156 • The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus • [Anderson] • (1979) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
167 • On Man's Rôle in the Galaxy • (1978) • essay by R. N. Bracewell
174 • The Thaw • (1979) • novelette by Tanith Lee
196 • Inevitability Sphere • (1978) • shortstory by Jeff Duntemann
205 • Scrap from the Notebooks of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • (1978) • shortstory by K. W. MacAnn
206 • Wolkenheim Fairday • [Far Stars and Future Times] • (1980) • novelette by Richard S. McEnroe
228 • Ker-Plop • (1979) • novella by Ted Reynolds
284 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1980
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October 8, 2012
It's often rather difficult to give a simple star rating to a collection, and that holds true here. While The Thaw and Ker-Plop are excellent and engaging short stories, a great many others grate as they seem to serve no real purpose other than to fill pages. Mandalay and Scrap from the Notebooks of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe are two middle-ground stories that almost make this collection bareable, but ultimately the good is buried beneath piles of the bad.
June 22, 2009
some good short stories, but as a whole, a very unfocused sci-fi collection.
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