Isaac Asimov's Magic World of Fantasy: Witches & Wizards

by Isaac Asimov (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Charles G. Waugh (Editor)

Introduction / Isaac Asimov
My mother was a witch / William Tenn
A message from charity / William M. Lee
The witch / A.E. van Vogt
The witches of Karres / James H. Schmitz
Spree / Barry N. Malzberg
Malice in Wonderland / Rufus King
Operation salamander / Poul Anderson
Wizard's world / Andre Norton
Sweets to sweet / Robert Bloch
Poor little Saturday / Madeleine L'Engle
Squeakie's first case / Margaret Manners
The Ipswich phial / Randall Garrett
Black heart and white heart / H. Richard Haggard

Introduction / Isaac Asimov
Mazirian the magician / Jack Vance
Please stand by / Ron Goulart
What good is a glass dagger? / Larry Niven
The eye of tandyla / L. Sprague de Camp
The white horse child / Greg Bear
Semley's necklace / Ursula K. Le Guin
And the monsters walk / John Jakes
The seeker in the fortress / Manly Wade Wellman
The wall around the world / Theodore Cogswell
The people of the black circle / Robert E. Howard

Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories, Science Fiction, Fiction

649 pages, Hardcover

First published August 21, 1985

About the author

Works 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.

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Reviews

[Andrew Brooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a combo/omnibus volume containing the first two books of Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy:
Wizards: Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 1 &
Witches: Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 2.

Please follow the above links for reviews of the two halves