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Search - Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories 12

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great Science Fiction Stories 12
Author: Isaac Asimov (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) An anthology collection of science fiction stories originally published in 1950. — The themes are stories which play with the nature of reality; stories of great advances wrecked by human greed and small-mindedness; post-apocalyptic stories; contact with alien races... more », from conquering aliens to benevolent aliens who conceal a sinister purpose (Damon Knight's "To Serve Man", upon which the famous Twilight Zone episode was based), to greedy humans manipulating naive aliens, to really benevolent aliens.

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) is the twelth volume of Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories, which is a series of short story anthology collections, edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, listing the great science fiction stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, published in 1050. They date the Golden Age as beginning in 1939 and lasting until 1963.

Contents:

1950 Introduction (The Great SF Stories 12) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Not with a Bang (1950) / short story by Damon Knight
Spectator Sport (1950) / short story by John D. MacDonald
There Will Come Soft Rains [The Martian Chronicles] (1950) / short story by Ray Bradbury
Dear Devil (1950) / novelette by Eric Frank Russell
Scanners Live in Vain [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1950) / novelette by Cordwainer Smith
Born of Man and Woman (1950) / short story by Richard Matheson
The Little Black Bag (1950) / novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
Enchanted Village (1950) / short story by A. E. van Vogt
Oddy and Id (1950) / short story by Alfred Bester
The Sack (1950) / short story by William Morrison
The Silly Season (1950) / short story by C. M. Kornbluth
Misbegotten Missionary (1950) / short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Green Patches)
To Serve Man (1950) / short story by Damon Knight
Coming Attraction (1950) / short story by Fritz Leiber
A Subway Named Mobius (1950) / short story by A. J. Deutsch
Process (1950) / short story by A. E. van Vogt
The Mindworm (1950) / short story by C. M. Kornbluth
The New Reality (1950) / novelette by Charles L. Harness

The book was later reprinted as the second half of Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Sixth Series with the first half being Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 (1950).

DAW Collectors #594..

ISBN-13: 9780879979539
ISBN-10: 0879979534
Publication Date: 9/4/1984
Pages: 320
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Publisher: DAW Books
Book Type: Paperback
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