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Silverberg then used his judgment, rather than the strict vote count, in selecting 11 of the next 15, for a total of 26 stories. In 1973, it was followed by The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time. Further volumes were published, consisting of early Nebula winners, thus straying outside ...
According to DAW, The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) "is the first in what Isaac Asimov plans to be a definitive series of sf anthologies, covering year by year the truly memorable stories that have progressively brought science fiction to its present prominence". [2] The second volume of the series is Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 2 ...
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg: 1979 Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 2 (1940) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, 1979 It's a Good Life: Jerome Bixby: Star Science Fiction Stories No.2: 1953 It's Great to Be Back! Robert A. Heinlein: 1947 Jack-in-the-Box ...
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
"A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...
The Complete Stories is a discontinued series intended to form a definitive collection of Isaac Asimov's short stories and novels. Originally published in 1990 (Volume 1) and 1992 (Volume 2) by Doubleday , it was discontinued after the second book of the planned series.
In classical mechanics, a reactive centrifugal force forms part of an action–reaction pair with a centripetal force. In accordance with Newton's first law of motion , an object moves in a straight line in the absence of a net force acting on the object.
The Hugo Winners was a series of books which collected science fiction and fantasy stories that won a Hugo Award for Short Story, Novelette or Novella at the World Science Fiction Convention between 1955 and 1982. Each volume was edited by American writer Isaac Asimov, who wrote the introduction and a short essay about each author featured in ...