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Author | Isaac Asimov |
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Cover artist | Peter Rauch[1] |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | September 1976 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 211 |
ISBN | 0-385-12198-9 |
OCLC | 2202354 |
813/.5/4 | |
LC Class | PZ3.A8316 Bi PS3551.S5 |
Preceded by | Buy Jupiter and Other Stories |
Followed by | The Winds of Change and Other Stories |
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories is a science fiction anthology written and edited by Isaac Asimov. Following the usual form for Asimov collections, it consists of eleven short stories and a poem surrounded by commentary describing how each came to be written.
Five of the stories are Robot stories, while one is a Multivac story.
Contents
[edit]The stories are as follows (original publication in parentheses):
- "The Prime of Life" (F&SF, October 1966), poem
- "Feminine Intuition" (F&SF, October 1969), novelette, Robot series
- "Waterclap" (Galaxy, May 1970), novelette
- "That Thou Art Mindful of Him" (F&SF, May 1974), novelette, Robot series
- "Stranger in Paradise" (If, May–June 1974), novelette, Robot series
- "The Life and Times of Multivac" (New York Times Magazine, [Sunday] 5 January 1975), Multivac series
- "The Winnowing" (Analog, February 1976)
- "The Bicentennial Man" (Judy-Lynn del Rey, ed., Stellar Science Fiction #2, February 1976), novelette, Robot series
- "Marching In" (High Fidelity magazine, April 1976)
- "Old-fashioned" (Bell Telephone Magazine, February 1976)
- "The Tercentenary Incident" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1976), Robot series
- "Birth of a Notion" (Amazing Stories, April 1976)
Two of the stories, "Feminine Intuition" and "The Bicentennial Man", were inspired by Judy-Lynn del Rey. The latter was expanded into a novel, The Positronic Man (with Robert Silverberg), which formed the basis of the 1999 Touchstone Pictures and Columbia Pictures film Bicentennial Man.
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