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Amazing Stories: 60 Years of the Best Science Fiction
Contents: The revolt of the pedestrians--The Gostak and the Doshes-Pigrimage--I, Robert--The strange flight of Richard Clayton--etc.
255 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1985
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Isaac Asimov
4,340 books27.8k followersWorks of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles,
The Foundation Trilogy
(1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
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August 31, 2019
This is an anthology consisting of short stories published in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. The selected stories cover 60 years in the life of the magazine, with initial publications ranging from 1928-1983. It's interesting to see the changes over time, but there seems to be quite a leap in quality to the stories I read that are published today; many of the ones collected in this volume are pretty old-fashioned, and some of them are pretty basic. Honestly I prefer the more modern stories generally, but, you know, I like reading older collections too, simply because I enjoy short stories and like to see how they evolve within the genre.
Overall, this is pretty average. There are stories here by Le Guin and Tiptree, but in neither case is it their best work I think. Most of the rest I can take or leave; as with most collections some of the stories appeal much more than others. On the down side is the truly execrable "There's No Vinism Like Chauvinism" by John Jakes, but to balance that out there was one genuinely outstanding story here, that dragged up the anthology rating to three stars by main force. "Requiem", by Edmond Hamilton, originally published in 1962, is a very quiet, very restrained story about the observation of the dying Earth, and it was absolutely lovely.
Overall, this is pretty average. There are stories here by Le Guin and Tiptree, but in neither case is it their best work I think. Most of the rest I can take or leave; as with most collections some of the stories appeal much more than others. On the down side is the truly execrable "There's No Vinism Like Chauvinism" by John Jakes, but to balance that out there was one genuinely outstanding story here, that dragged up the anthology rating to three stars by main force. "Requiem", by Edmond Hamilton, originally published in 1962, is a very quiet, very restrained story about the observation of the dying Earth, and it was absolutely lovely.
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