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Science Fiction A to Z ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (Houghton Mifflin, August 1982, 0-395-31285-X, $21.95, hc, an)     A Dictionary of the Great S.F. Themes xv · Dictionaries · Isaac Asimov · in 3 · Too Soon to Die [Ragnarok exiles] · Tom Godwin · nv Venture Science Fiction March 1957 36 · A Museum Piece · Roger Zelazny · ss Fantastic Stories of Imagination June 1963 44 · Why Johnny Can’t Speed · Alan Dean Foster · ss Galaxy Science Fiction September/October 1971 54 · Man in a Quandary · L. J. Stecher, Jr. · ss Galaxy Science Fiction July 1958 61 · The Cabbage Patch · Theodore R. Cogswell · ss Perspective Fall 1952 65 · A Touch of Grapefruit · Richard Matheson · ss Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1959 76 · Answer · Fredric Brown · vi Angels and Spaceships by Fredric Brown, E.P. Dutton, 1954 78 · A Gun for Dinosaur [Reginald Rivers] · L. Sprague de Camp · nv Galaxy Science Fiction March 1956 101 · A Pail of Air · Fritz Leiber · ss Galaxy Science Fiction December 1951 112 · The Odor of Thought · Robert Sheckley · ss Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 122 · The Last Monster · Poul Anderson · ss Super Science Stories August 1951, as “Terminal Quest” 138 · History Lesson · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Startling Stories May 1949 146 · The Troublemaker [Federation of Humanity] · Christopher Anvil · ss Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction July 1960 161 · The Game of Rat and Dragon [Instrumentality] · Cordwainer Smith · ss Galaxy Science Fiction October 1955 174 · Let’s Be Frank · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Science Fantasy #23, 1957 182 · The Easy Way Out · Lee Correy · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact April 1966 192 · All Cats Are Gray · Andre Norton · ss Fantastic Universe August/September 1953, as by Andrew North 198 · The Man from Earth · Gordon R. Dickson · ss Galaxy Magazine June 1964 210 · Dream Damsel · Evan Hunter · ss Fantastic Universe October 1954 219 · The Underdweller · William F. Nolan · ss Fantastic Universe August 1957, as “Small World” 230 · Top Secret · Eric Frank Russell · ss Astounding Science Fiction August 1956 244 · One Love Have I · Robert F. Young · ss If April 1955 258 · The Snowball Effect · Katherine MacLean · ss Galaxy Science Fiction September 1952 270 · The Santa Claus Problem · J. W. Schutz · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact January 1979 275 · The Ship Who Sang [Brainship] · Anne McCaffrey · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1961 291 · No Harm Done · Jack Sharkey · ss Fantastic Stories of Imagination July 1961 296 · There Will Come Soft Rains [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s May 6 1950 301 · In the Jaws of Danger [Dr. Dillingham] · Piers Anthony · ss If November 1967 314 · In the Abyss · H. G. Wells · ss Pearson’s Magazine August 1896 326 · Custer’s Last Jump · Steven Utley & Howard Waldrop · nv Universe 6 ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1976 352 · Game Preserve · Rog Phillips · ss If October 1957 365 · Life Hutch [Kyben] · Harlan Ellison · ss If April 1956 376 · The Silk and the Song · Charles L. Fontenay · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1956 399 · Down to the Worlds of Men · Alexei Panshin · nv If July 1963 423 · Robbie [Robots] · Isaac Asimov · ss Super Science Stories September 1940, as “Strange Playfellow” 439 · The Man with English · Horace L. Gold · ss Star Science Fiction Stories ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 447 · Transstar · Raymond E. Banks · nv Galaxy Magazine June 1960 468 · Open Warfare · James E. Gunn · nv Galaxy Science Fiction May 1954 486 · The Long Way Home · Fred Saberhagen · ss Galaxy Magazine June 1961 499 · Skirmish on a Summer Morning · Bob Shaw · na Cosmic Kaleidoscope by Bob Shaw, Gollancz, 1976 536 · Gantlet · Richard E. Peck · ss Orbit 10 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1972 546 · Saucer of Loneliness · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Galaxy Science Fiction February 1953 557 · The Mother of Necessity · Chad Oliver · ss Another Kind by Chad Oliver, Ballantine, 1955 568 · The Great Secret · George H. Smith · vi Super-Science Fiction October 1959 571 · The Draw · Jerome Bixby · ss Amazing Stories March 1954 587 · For the Sake of Grace · Suzette Haden Elgin · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1969 606 · A Death in the House · Clifford D. Simak · nv Galaxy Magazine October 1959 622 · Creature of the Snows · William Sambrot · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 29 1960 631 · A Criminal Act · Harry Harrison · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact January 1967 642 · The Cage · A. Bertram Chandler · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1957

Science Fiction: Classic Stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh & Martin Greenberg (Galahad, August 2000, 1-57866-106-4, $9.99, 466pp, hc, an)     Reissue (Galahad 1991) anthology of nine short novels, abridged from The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940s (Robinson, 1989).

Science Fiction Masterpieces ed. Isaac Asimov (Galahad, 1986, 0-88365-713-9, $9.98, 633pp, hc, an)     “Instant remainder” anthology of 59 stories. 11 · Editorial: Escape to Reality? · Isaac Asimov · ed Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Anthology, Volume 3: Spring-Summer 1980 ed. George H. Scithers, Davis, 1980 14 · In the Country of the Blind, No One Can See · Melisa Michaels · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1979 27 · Keepersmith · Randall Garrett & Vicki Ann Heydron · nv Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine Spring 1979 51 · Good Taste · Isaac Asimov · ss Apocalypse Press, 1976 65 · To Sin Against Systems · Garry R. Osgood · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Winter 1977 90 · Louisville Slugger [Slugger] · Jack C. Haldeman, II · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Summer 1977 93 · A Delicate Shade of Kipney · Nancy Kress · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January/February 1978 102 · Air Raid · Herb Boehm · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Spring 1977 112 · A Many Splendored Thing · Linda Isaacs · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Fall 1977 117 · Boarder Incident · Ted Reynolds · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Winter 1977 121 · Low Grade Ore · Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Summer 1977 136 · The Missing Item [Black Widowers] · Isaac Asimov · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Winter 1977 148 · Heal the Sick, Raise the Dead · Jesse Peel · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March/April 1978 154 · Polly Plus · Randall Garrett · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May/June 1978 165 · A Time for Terror · Frederick Longbeard · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March 1979 183 · Perchance to Dream · Sally A. Sellers · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Spring 1977 199 · The Small Stones of Tu Fu · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March/April 1978 206 · Born Again · Sharon N. Farber · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May/June 1978 219 · Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe [Eight Worlds] · John Varley · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Spring 1977 242 · How It Happened · Isaac Asimov · vi Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine Spring 1979 243 · Quarantine · Arthur C. Clarke · vi Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Spring 1977 244 · Cautionary Tales · Larry Niven · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July/August 1978 247 · A Bait of Dreams [Gleia] · Jo Clayton · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine February 1979 270 · Against a Crooked Stile · Nancy Kress · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1979 285 · Joelle · Poul Anderson · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Fall 1977 313 · Dance Band on the Titanic · Jack L. Chalker · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July/August 1978 330 · Softly Touch the Stranger’s Mind · E. Amalia Andujar · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine September/October 1978 335 · Lorelei at Storyville West · Sherwood Springer · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Fall 1977 344 · On the Way · Conway Conley · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July/August 1978 350 · The Napoli Express [Lord Darcy] · Randall Garrett · na Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine April 1979 402 · Darkside · Gary D. McClellan · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March/April 1978 422 · No Room in the Stable · A. Bertram Chandler · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Fall 1977 426 · African Blues · Paula Smith · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January/February 1978 435 · Coming of Age in Henson’s Tube · William Jon Watkins · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Spring 1977 439 · Home Team Advantage [Slugger; Julius Hawkline] · Jack C. Haldeman, II · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Fall 1977 443 · Star Train · Drew Mendelson · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May/June 1978 449 · Bystander · Alan Dean Foster · ss Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine Fall 1978 456 · Time and Hagakure · Steven Utley · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Winter 1977 462 · Ghosts · Keith Minnion · ss Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine Summer 1979 476 · A Simple Outside Job · Robert Lee Hawkins · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Winter 1977 479 · The Last Defender of Camelot · Roger Zelazny · nv Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine Summer 1979 496 · Lost and Found · Michael A. Banks & George Wagner · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March/April 1978 499 · Hellhole · David Gerrold · ss Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine Fall 1979 512 · The Man Who Took the Fifth · Michael Schimmel · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May/June 1978 518 · The Adventure of the Global Traveler [Sherlock Holmes] · Anne Lear · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine September/October 1978 525 · Backspace [Sam] · F. M. Busby · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Winter 1977 529 · On the Q167 File · John M. Ford · vi Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine November/December 1978 532 · Horseless Carriage · Michael A. Banks · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July/August 1978 537 · Pièce De Résistance · Jesse Bone · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May/June 1978 543 · Lipidleggin’ [LaNague Federation] · F. Paul Wilson · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May/June 1978 550 · Omit Flowers · Dean McLaughlin · vi Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Fall 1977 551 · Message to Myself · Diana L. Paxson · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July/August 1978 554 · One Rejection Too Many · Patricia Nurse · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July/August 1978 557 · But Do They Ride Dolphins? · Frederick S. Lord, Jr. · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July/August 1978 566 · When There’s No Man Around · Stephen Goldin · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Fall 1977 572 · Longshot · Jack C. Haldeman, II · ss Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine Spring 1979 579 · Nothing for Nothing · Isaac Asimov · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine February 1979 587 · To Fill the Sea and Air [LaNague Federation] · F. Paul Wilson · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine February 1979 600 · Guilt · James E. Gunn · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May/June 1978 615 · Proud Rider [Momus] · Barry B. Longyear · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine February 1979

The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & George R. R. Martin (Crown, May 1983, 0-517-54978-6, $12.95, v+249pp, hc, an, cover by Janet Halverson)     Details taken from online listing. 1 · Fat! · Isaac Asimov · in 5 · Sylvester’s Revenge · Vance Aandahl · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1975 10 · Fat Farm · Orson Scott Card · ss Omni January 1980 21 · The Stretch · Sam Merwin, Jr. · ss Science Fiction Stories November 1956 30 · Camels and Dromedaries, Clem · R. A. Lafferty · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1967 41 · The Champ · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1978 47 · The Truth About Pyecraft · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine April 1903 57 · The Iron Chancellor · Robert Silverberg · nv Galaxy Science Fiction May 1958 79 · The Man Who Ate the World · Frederik Pohl · nv Galaxy Science Fiction November 1956 107 · Gladys’s Gregory · John Anthony West · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1963 114 · Abercrombie Station [Jean Parlier] · Jack Vance · na Thrilling Wonder Stories February 1952 170 · Shipping Clerk · William Morrison · ss Galaxy Science Fiction June 1952 185 · The Malted Milk Monster · William Tenn · nv Galaxy Magazine August 1959 204 · The Food Farm · Kit Reed · ss Orbit 2 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1967 213 · The Artist of Hunger · Scott Russell Sanders · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July 1983 231 · Quitters, Inc. · Stephen King · ss Night Shift by Stephen King, Doubleday, 1978

Senior Sleuths: A Large Print Anthology of Mysteries and Puzzlers ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh (G.K. Hall, 1989, 0-8161-4854-6, 453pp, hc, an) vii · Sharpness at the End · Isaac Asimov · in 1 · The Case of the Perfect Maid [Miss Marple] · Agatha Christie · ss The Strand Magazine April 1942, as “The Perfect Maid” 24 · Never Shake a Family Tree · Donald E. Westlake · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1961 48 · The Man Who Explained Miracles [Sir Henry Merrivale] · Carter Dickson · na The Housewife January 1956 (+2), as “Ministry of Miracles” 137 · Mom Knows Best [Mom] · James Yaffe · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #103, June 1952 163 · A Bad Influence · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1983 187 · His Last Bow [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine September 1917 217 · Hot or Cold [Union Club] · Isaac Asimov · ss Gallery July 1981 229 · The Hammer of God [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 5 1910, as “The Bolt from the Blue” 260 · No Motive · Theodore Mathieson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1972 267 · Mrs. Norris Observes · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1959, as “Mrs. Norris Visits the Library” 284 · The Pleasant Assassin [Dr. Basil Willing] · Helen McCloy · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1970 316 · The Life of a Big Whale [“Big Red Fred” Walsh] · Thomas Adcock · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1988 348 · Journey for Lady G. · Charlotte MacLeod · ss Edgar Wallace Mystery Magazine #21, April 1966 365 · Rift in the Loot [Hildegarde Withers; John J. Malone] · Stuart Palmer & Craig Rice · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1955 414 · The House of a Hundred Birds [Simon Ark] · Edward D. Hoch · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 24 1982 453 · Index · [uncredited] · ix (r)

The 7 Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (Fawcett Crest, September 1981, 0-449-24440-7, $2.50, 350pp, pb, an, cover by Jerome Podwil)     also in The Seven Deadly Sins and Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction. Details taken from online listing. 9 · Introduction · Martin H. Greenberg · in 15 · Superiority · Arthur C. Clarke · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1951 29 · Whosawhatsa? · Jack Wodhams · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact December 1967 67 · Riding the Torch · Norman Spinrad · na Threads of Time ed. Robert Silverberg, Thomas Nelson US, 1974 135 · The Nail and the Oracle · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Playboy October 1965 157 · Jean Duprès · Gordon R. Dickson · nv Nova 1 ed. Harry Harrison, Delacorte, 1970 197 · Nuisance Value · Eric Frank Russell · na Astounding Science Fiction January 1957 271 · The Sons of Prometheus · Alexei Panshin · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact October 1966 311 · The Ugly Little Boy · Isaac Asimov · nv Galaxy Magazine September 1958, as “Lastborn”

The Seven Deadly Sins and Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (Bonanza/Crown, 1982, 0-517-38595-3, 317+350pp, hc, an)     Combines The 7 Deadly Sins of Science Fiction and The 7 Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction. 5 · The 7 Deadly Sins of Science Fiction · ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg · an Fawcett, November 1980 9 · Introduction · Martin H. Greenberg · in 1980 15 · Sail 25 · Jack Vance · nv Amazing Stories August 1962, as “Gateway to Strangeness” 45 · Peeping Tom · Judith Merril · nv Startling Stories Spring 1954 71 · The Invisible Man Murder Case · Henry Slesar · nv Fantastic May 1958 117 · Galley Slave [Susan Calvin; Robots] · Isaac Asimov · nv Galaxy Science Fiction December 1957 157 · Divine Madness · Roger Zelazny · ss Magazine of Horror Summer 1966 167 · The Midas Plague · Frederik Pohl · na Galaxy Science Fiction April 1954 231 · The Man Who Ate the World · Frederik Pohl · nv Galaxy Science Fiction November 1956 265 · Margin of Profit [Nicholas van Rijn] · Poul Anderson · nv Astounding Science Fiction September 1956 293 · The Hook, the Eye and the Whip [Joe Sagar] · Michael G. Coney · nv Galaxy Science Fiction March 1974 5 · The 7 Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction · ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg · an Fawcett, September 1981 9 · Introduction · Martin H. Greenberg · in 1981 15 · Superiority · Arthur C. Clarke · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1951 29 · Whosawhatsa? · Jack Wodhams · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact December 1967 67 · Riding the Torch · Norman Spinrad · na Threads of Time ed. Robert Silverberg, Thomas Nelson US, 1974 135 · The Nail and the Oracle · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Playboy October 1965 157 · Jean Duprès · Gordon R. Dickson · nv Nova 1 ed. Harry Harrison, Delacorte, 1970 197 · Nuisance Value · Eric Frank Russell · na Astounding Science Fiction January 1957 271 · The Sons of Prometheus · Alexei Panshin · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact October 1966 311 · The Ugly Little Boy · Isaac Asimov · nv Galaxy Magazine September 1958, as “Lastborn”

The 7 Deadly Sins of Science Fiction ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (Fawcett Crest, November 1980, 0-449-24349-4, $2.50, 317pp, pb, an, cover by Jerome Podwil)     also in The Seven Deadly Sins and Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction. Details taken from online listing. 9 · Introduction · Martin H. Greenberg · in 15 · Sail 25 · Jack Vance · nv Amazing Stories August 1962, as “Gateway to Strangeness” 45 · Peeping Tom · Judith Merril · nv Startling Stories Spring 1954 71 · The Invisible Man Murder Case · Henry Slesar · nv Fantastic May 1958 117 · Galley Slave [Susan Calvin; Robots] · Isaac Asimov · nv Galaxy Science Fiction December 1957 157 · Divine Madness · Roger Zelazny · ss Magazine of Horror Summer 1966 167 · The Midas Plague · Frederik Pohl · na Galaxy Science Fiction April 1954 231 · The Man Who Ate the World · Frederik Pohl · nv Galaxy Science Fiction November 1956 265 · Margin of Profit [Nicholas van Rijn] · Poul Anderson · nv Astounding Science Fiction September 1956 293 · The Hook, the Eye and the Whip [Joe Sagar] · Michael G. Coney · nv Galaxy Science Fiction March 1974