The Best of Isaac Asimov is a collection of twelve science fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov, published by Sphere in 1973. It begins with a short introduction (six pages in the Doubleday hardcover edition) giving various details on the stories, such as how they came to be written, or what significance merits their inclusion in a "best of" collection, as well as some of Dr. Asimov's thoughts on a best of collection itself. The stories included are two of his early works, two of his late works (post-1960), and eight from the 1950s, which he refers to as his "golden decade" in the introduction. Except for the last story in the book, " Mirror Image", none of the stories are related to his Robot and Foundation series, while a few (" The Last Question", " The Dead Past", and " Anniversary") mention the Multivac computer.

Contents

• Introduction
• " Marooned off Vesta" (1939)
• " Nightfall" (1941), novelette
• " C-Chute" (1951), novelette
• " The Martian Way" (1952), novelette
• " The Deep" (1952), novelette
• " The Fun They Had" (1951)
• " The Last Question" (1956), Multivac series
• " The Dead Past" (1956), novelette, Multivac series
• " The Dying Night" (1956), novelette, Wendell Urth series
• " Anniversary" (1959), Multivac series
• " The Billiard Ball" (1967), novelette
• " Mirror Image" (1972), Robot series #2.5

References

External links

• The Best of Isaac Asimov title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The Best of Isaac Asimov at Open Library

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