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The Edge of Tomorrow
| Author: | Isaac Asimov |
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Harrap, Ltd., 1986 Tor, 1985 |
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Synopsis
Isaac Asimov writes about actual and fictional scientists--from Archimedes in his bath to the alien astronomers on the far planet of Largesh--whose minds and discoveries have shaped our past, present, and future.
Table of Contents:
- xi - Foreword (The Edge of Tomorrow) - essay by Ben Bova
- 1 - Introduction (The Edge of Tomorrow) - [Asimov's Essays: Own Work] - essay
- 4 - Unique Is Where You Find It - [Black Widowers] - (1985) - short story
- 20 - The Eureka Phenomenon - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1971) - essay
- 33 - The Feeling of Power - (1958) - short story
- 44 - The Comet That Wasn't - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
- 57 - Found! - (1978) - short story
- 73 - Twinkle, Twinkle, Microwaves - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
- 85 - Pâté de Foie Gras - (1956) - short story
- 104 - The Bridge of the Gods - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1975) - essay
- 116 - Belief - (1953) - novelette
- 150 - Euclid's Fifth - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1971) - essay
- 162 - The Plane Truth - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1971) - essay
- 174 - The Billiard Ball - (1967) - novelette
- 194 - The Winds of Change - (1982) - short story
- 210 - The Figure of the Fastest - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1973) - essay
- 222 - The Dead Past - (1956) - novelette
- 272 - The Fateful Lightning - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1969) - essay
- 284 - Breeds There a Man? - novelette (variant of Breeds There a Man...? 1951)
- 322 - The Man Who Massed the Earth - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1969) - essay
- 334 - Nightfall - (1941) - novelette
- 371 - The Planet That Wasn't - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1975) - essay
- 383 - The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette (variant of Lastborn)
- 425 - The Three Who Died Too Soon - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1982) - essay
- 437 - The Last Question - [Multivac] - (1956) - short story
- 451 - The Nobel Prize That Wasn't - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1970) - essay
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