Fifty years after his first professional sale, Isaac Asimov is still writing, prolifically, and turning out high-quality work. In commemoration, Greenberg has brought together one story from each of those 50 years, beginning with that very first sale, "Marooned off Vesta," an impressively well-told tale for an 18-year-old novice, concerning a rocketship crew in danger of languishing in space for lack of fuel, and how they solve their problem. Also here are "Nightfall," voted one of the best SF stories of all time by members of the SF Writers of America, published less than three years after the first story, and demonstrating Asimov's tremendous growth in that time. It concerns a civilization on a planet in a multiple star system that experiences darkness only once every several millenia, to disastrous effect. "The Red Queen's Race" is a provocative time-travel story that resolves the contradictions inherent to the form; and "The Ugly Little Boy" is an almost unbearably touching tale of a Neanderthal child brought into the modern world.

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* 1 Marooned Off Vesta [Brandon, Shea & Moore] (1939) shortstory by Isaac Asimov
* 21 Robbie (1940) shortstory by Isaac Asimov (aka Strange Playfellow)
* 45 Nightfall (1941) novelette by Isaac Asimov
* 87 Runaround [Mike Donovan (Robot)] (1942) novelette by Isaac Asimov
* 109 Death Sentence (1943) shortstory by Isaac Asimov
* 131 Catch That Rabbit [Mike Donovan (Robot)] (1944) shortstory by Isaac Asimov
* 155 Blind Alley (1945) shortstory by Isaac Asimov

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* 1 Evidence [Susan Calvin (Robot)] (1946) novelette by Isaac Asimov
* 33 Little Lost Robot [Susan Calvin (Robot)] (1947) novelette by Isaac Asimov
* 69 No Connection (1948) shortstory by Isaac Asimov
* 95 The Red Queen's Race (1949) novelette by Isaac Asimov
* 129 Green Patches (1950) shortstory by Isaac Asimov
* 151 Breeds There a Man . . . ? (1951) novelette by Isaac Asimov

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