Foundation's Friends: Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586212167 ISBN 13: 9780586212165

Publisher: Grafton Books, 1991

Synopsis

An anthology of original science fiction honoring Isaac Asimov's 50th anniversary in the genre.The nonmetallic Isaac or it's a wonderful life / Ben Bova --Strip-runner / Pamela Sargent --The asenion solution / Robert Silverberg --Murder in the urth degree / Edward Wellen --Trantor falls / Harry Turtledove --Dilemma / Connie Willis --Maureen Birnbaum after dark / George Alec Effinger --Balance / Mike Resnick --The present eternal / Barry N. Malzberg --PAPPI / Sheila Finch.The reunion at the mile-high / Frederik Pohl --Plato's cave / Poul Anderson --Foundation's conscience / George Zebrowski --Carhunters of the concrete prairie / Robert Sheckley --The overheard conversation / Edward D. Hoch --Blot / Hal Clement --The fourth law of robotics / Harry Harrison --The originist / Orson Scott Card --Afterword, a word or two from Janet / Janet Jeppson Asimov --fifty years / Isaac Asimov.Isaac's favoriteThe immortal bard --The ugly little boy --The last question. Appreciations and Susan and Bayta and me / Karen Anderson --An appreciation / Poul Anderson --My brother Isaac / Stanley Asimov --Isaac / Ben Bova --An unwritten letter to our dear friend Isaac Asimov / Catherine Crook de Camp --Isaac and I / L. Sprague de Camp --Isaac Asimov / Gordon R. Dickson --Isaac / Harlan Ellison --Appreciation of Isaac Asimov / Sheila Finch --In memoriam / Martin H. Greenberg --Isaac Asimov, mystery writer --Edward D. Hoch --From the heart's basement / Barry N. Malzberg.In memoriam / Shawna McCarthy --Part of my life / Frederik Poul --An appreciation of Isaac / Mike Resnick --Isaac Asimov / Carl Sagan --Isaac an appreciation / Pamela Sargent --An Asimov appreciation / Stanley Schmidt --Refections on Isaac / Robert Silverberg --Isaac / Janet Asimov --Isaac an affectionate memory / Norman Spinrad --Appreciation of Isaac / Edward Wellen --In memoriam / Sheila Williams --Our mutual friend / Connie Willis --The last interview -- George Zebrowski.

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About the Author

Edited by the late MARTIN H. GREENBERG, Foundation's Friends honors SF writer Isaac Asimov with an anthology of short stories set in Asimov's universes. This collection includes contributions from Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, Poul Anderson, Orson Scott Card, and others.

From Publishers Weekly

Subtitled "Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov," this pleasant anthology of new stories celebrates Asimov's 50 years of writing SF. Seventeen authors explore the people, places and ideas Asimov has made famous, albeit in their own styles. Robots circumvent, enhance or expound upon the Three Laws of Robotics, a la Robert Sheckley, Harry Harrison (in a Stainless Steel Rat adventure) and Connie Willis, who puts Asimov himself into a "Dilemma." Mike Resnick reveals an introspective Susan Calvin; George Alec Effinger sends a Jewish American Princess to see "Nightfall," Edward D. Hoch visits the Black Widowers, and Orson Scott Card looks at Hari Seldon and the start of the Second Fundation. Frederik Pohl's "The Reunion at the Mile-High" is a charming and unexpected tale of the 50th reunion of the Futurians, Asimov and Pohl included, in an alternate-world 1989.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Grafton Books
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0586212167
• ISBN 13: 9780586212165
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Martin H. Greenberg