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An enthralling collection of short stories from the award-winning science fiction writer of I, Robot and The Foundation, Isaac Asimov.

Originally published in various magazines, this volume includes some of Asimov’s self-described personal favorite short stories, including “Franchise” and “The Last Question.” It also includes “Nightfall,” a story about a planet that only experiences night once every 2,049 years, which the Science Fiction Writers of America has voted as the best science fiction story ever written. The many fans of Isaac Asimov’s work won’t want to miss this wonderful collection of short fiction from the sci fi master.

Table of Contents:

• The Dead Past
• The Foundation of S. F. Success
• Franchise
• Gimmicks Three
• Kid Stuff
• The Watery Place
• Living Space
• The Message
• Satisfaction Guaranteed [Susan Calvin (Robot)]
• Hell-Fire
• The Last Trump
• The Fun They Had
• Jokester
• The Immortal Bard
• Someday
• The Author's Ordeal
• Dreaming Is a Private Thing
• ProfessionThe Feeling of Power
• The Dying Night [Wendell Urth]
• I'm in Marsport Without Hilda
• Gentle Vultures
• All the Troubles of the World
• Spell My Name with an S
• The Last Question
• The Ugly Little Boy
• Nightfall
• Green Patches
• Hostess
• Breeds There a Man... ?
• The C-Chute
• "In a Good Cause--"
• If...
• Sally
• Flies
• "Nobody Here But--"
• It's Such a Beautiful Day
• Strikebreaker
• Insert Knob A in Hole B
• The Up-to-Date Sorcerer
• Unto the Fourth Generation
• What Is This Thing Called Love?
• The Machine That Won the War
• My Son, the Physicist!
• Eyes Do More Than See
• Segregationist
• I Just Make Them Up, See!
• Rejection Slips

The second volume in an extraordinary collection published shortly after the author’s death. In these twenty-three stories, Asimov's vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas.

The definitive collection of short fiction by Isaac Asimov, supreme master of the science fiction genre continues with Volume Two of the Complete Stories. The Good Doctor was always ahead of his time and his work stands today as the clearest expression of our collective hopes and fears for the future. But the ever-expanding popularity of his stories with young and old readers alike is explained by their wit, zest and human interest.

Within this volume are stories

Table of Contents:

• Not Final!
• The Hazing
• Death Sentence
• Blind Alley
• Evidence [Susan Calvin (Robot)]
• The Red Queen's Race
• Day of the Hunters
• The Deep
• The Martian Way
• The Monkey's Finger
• The Singing Bell [Wendell Urth]
• The Talking Stone [Wendell Urth]
• Each an Explorer
• Let's Get Together
• Pâté de Foie Gras
• Galley Slave
• Lenny [Susan Calvin (Robot)]
• A Loint of Paw
• A Statue for Father
• Anniversary [Brandon, Shea & Moore 2]
• Obituary
• Rain, Rain, Go Away
• Light
• Founding Father
• The Key
• The Billiard Ball
• Exile to Hell
• Key Item
• Feminine Intuition
• The Greatest Asset
• Mirror Image [Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw]
• Take a Match
• Light Verse
• Stranger in Paradise
• That Thou Art Mindful of Him
• The Life and Times of Multivac
• Bicentennial Man
• Marching In
• Old-Fashioned
• The Tercentenary Incident