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Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts Author:Isaac Asimov (Editor), Charles G. Waugh (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) This unusual anthology offers twelve science fiction stories, each unique in that it introduced a new concept, including stories about antimatter, clones, collapsed stars, computers, starships, invisibility, and overpopulation. — The central themes of all these science fiction firsts went on to have bigger, more involved treatments in... more » later stories by many many authors. These concepts interested many authors, and their readers, and sparked future anthologies and novel series books.
Contents:
Introduction: To be the First - essay by Isaac Asimov
ANTIMATTER (1937) : Minus Planet / John D. Clark
CLONE (1952) : Yesterday House / Fritz Leiber
COLLAPSED STARS (1966) : Neutron Star / Larry Niven
COSMIC DISASTER (1839) : The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion / Edgar Allan Poe
EARTH INHERITED BY OTHER MAMMALS (1938) : The Faithful / Lester del Rey
GENERATION STARSHIP (1940) : The Voyage that Lasted 600 Years / Don Wilcox
HOME COMPUTER (1946) : A Logic Named Joe / Murray Leinster
INVISIBILITY (1859) : What Was It? / Fitz-James O'Brien
MICROCOSMIC WORLD (1858) : The Diamond Lens / Fitz-James O'Brien
OVERPOPULATION (1954) : The Test / Richard Matheson
SOLAR POWER FROM SATELLITES (1941) : Reason / Isaac Asimov
TANK (1903) : The Land Ironclads / H.G. Wells« less