Isaac Asimov

Collected here in this massive one hundred story anthology are more than three hundred thousand words of world class science fiction, fantasy, and horror by some of the greatest writers the field has ever known. Hours and hours of reading enjoyment await Jackie Sees a Star by Marion Zimmer Bradley All Cats are Gray by Andre Norton Song in a Minor Key by C. L. Moore Travel Diary by Alfred Bester Pythias by Frederik Pohl The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn The Sound of Silence by Barbara Constant The Intruder by Emil Petaja An Ounce of Cure by Alan Edward Nourse Longevity by Therese Windser The Ghost of Mohammed Din by Clark Ashton Smith Of Time and Texas by William F. Nolan Native Son by Thelma Hamm Evans Gorgono and Slith by Ray Bradbury The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick The Putnam Tradition by Sonya Dorman Gods of the North by Robert E. Howard Small World by William F. Nolan Nightmare on the Nose by Evelyn E. Smith Collector's Item by Robert F. Young Crossroads of Destiny by H. Beam Piper The Hoofer by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Doorstep by Keith Laumer The Jovian Jest by Lilith Lorraine Dream World by R. A. Lafferty Shatter the Wall by Sydney Van Scyoc The Big Engine by Fritz Leiber Misbegotten Missionary by Isaac Asimov The One and the Many by Milton Lesser The Glory of Ippling by Helen M. Urban 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Disqualified by Charles L. Fontenay No Strings Attached by Lester del Rey Zeritsky's Law by Ann Griffith Navy Day by Harry Harrison The Undersea Tube by Lucile Taylor Hansen Probability by Louis Trimble No Shield from the Dead by Gordon R. Dickson I'll Kill You Tomorrow by Helen Huber The Secret of Kralitz by Henry Kuttner Never Stop to Pat a Kitten by Miriam Allen deFord More than Shadow by Dorothy Quick The Monkey Spoons by Mary Elizabeth Counselman Witch of the Demon Seas by Poul Anderson The Piebald Hippogriff by Karen Anderson The Vampire of Wembley by Edgar Wallace Riya's Foundling by Algis Budrys Ask a Foolish Question by Robert Sheckley Flight From Tomorrow by H. Beam Piper Robots of the World Arise by Mari Wolf The Worlds of If by Stanley G. Weinbaum The Adventurer by C. M. Kornbluth Decision by Frank M. Robinson The Waker Dreams by Richard Matheson A Matter of Proportion by Anne Walker One-Shot by James Blish The Man with the Nose by Rhoda Broughton Operation Haystack by Frank Herbert The Man Who Saw the Future by Edmond Hamilton Common Denominator by John D. MacDonald The Natives by Katherine MacLEAN The Lonely by Judith Merril The Street That Wasn't There by Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi Food for Friendship by E. C. Tubb Half Around Pluto by Manly Wade Wellman The Cosmic Express by Jack Williamson The Next Logical Step by Ben Bova They Twinkled like Jewels by Philip Jos Farmer Postmark Ganymede by Robert Silverberg Hot Planet by Hal Clement The Tenth Scholar by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury Strain by L. Ron Hubbard The Time of Cold by Mary Carlson The Customs Lounge by Annie Proulx I, Executioner by Ted White and Terry Carr and many more

Collected here in this massive one hundred story anthology are more than three hundred thousand words of world class science fiction, fantasy, and horror by some of the greatest writers the field has ever known. Hours and hours of reading enjoyment await Jackie Sees a Star by Marion Zimmer Bradley All Cats are Gray by Andre Norton Song in a Minor Key by C. L. Moore Travel Diary by Alfred Bester Pythias by Frederik Pohl The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn The Sound of Silence by Barbara Constant The Intruder by Emil Petaja An Ounce of Cure by Alan Edward Nourse Longevity by Therese Windser The Ghost of Mohammed Din by Clark Ashton Smith Of Time and Texas by William F. Nolan Native Son by Thelma Hamm Evans Gorgono and Slith by Ray Bradbury The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick The Putnam Tradition by Sonya Dorman Gods of the North by Robert E. Howard Small World by William F. Nolan Nightmare on the Nose by Evelyn E. Smith Collector's Item by Robert F. Young Crossroads of Destiny by H. Beam Piper The Hoofer by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Doorstep by Keith Laumer The Jovian Jest by Lilith Lorraine Dream World by R. A. Lafferty Shatter the Wall by Sydney Van Scyoc The Big Engine by Fritz Leiber Misbegotten Missionary by Isaac Asimov The Glory of Ippling by Helen M. Urban Where There's Hope by Jerome Bixby 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Disqualified by Charles L. Fontenay No Strings Attached by Lester del Rey Zeritsky's Law by Ann Griffith Say Hello for Me by Frank W. Coggins Navy Day by Harry Harrison The Undersea Tube by Lucile Taylor Hansen Probability by Louis Trimble No Shield from the Dead by Gordon R. Dickson I'll Kill You Tomorrow by Helen Huber The Secret of Kralitz by Henry Kuttner Never Stop to Pat a Kitten by Miriam Allen deFord More than Shadow by Dorothy Quick The Monkey Spoons by Mary Elizabeth Counselman Witch of the Demon Seas by Poul Anderson The Piebald Hippogriff by Karen Anderson Riya's Foundling by Algis Budrys Ask a Foolish Question by Robert Sheckley Flight From Tomorrow by H. Beam Piper Robots of the World Arise by Mari Wolf The Worlds of If by Stanley G. Weinbaum The Adventurer by C. M. Kornbluth Decision by Frank M. Robinson The Waker Dreams by Richard Matheson A Matter of Proportion by Anne Walker One-Shot by James Blish McILVAINE'S Star by August Derleth The Man with the Nose by Rhoda Broughton Operation Haystack by Frank Herbert The Nothing Equation by Tom Godwin The Man Who Saw the Future by Edmond Hamilton Common Denominator by John D. MacDonald The Natives by Katherine MacLEAN The Lonely by Judith Merril The Street That Wasn't There by Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi Food for Friendship by E. C. Tubb Half Around Pluto by Manly Wade Wellman Project Hush by William Tenn Time Enough At Last by Lynn Venable Bride of the Dark One by Florence Verbell Brown The Cosmic Express by Jack Williamson The Next Logical Step by Ben Bova They Twinkled like Jewels by Philip Jos Farmer Shandy by Ron Goulart Tight Squeeze by Dean C. Ing Extracts from the Galactick Almanack by Laurence Janifer and many more

A must-read for any science fiction fan, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two (published in two volumes, A & B) is a compilation of twenty-two of the best novellas published between 1895 and 1962. The two volumes were originally published in 1973 (Two-A) and 1974 (Two-B) after the stories were selected by a vote of the membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA, now known as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America). Volume Two-B has complete novellas by the following authors: Isaac Asimov James Blish Algis Budrys Theodore Cogswell E. M. Forster Frederik Pohl James H. Schmitz T. L. Sherred Wilmar H. Shiras Clifford D. Simak Jack Vance

Esimese Asumi sünnist on möödas nelisada üheksakümmend kaheksa aastat. Ta on oma tugevuse tipus, valmis lööma Teist. Kuid üks mees ei nõustu kõike näivat tõe pähe võtma. See on Esimese Asumi nõunik Golan Trevize, kes vastupidiselt üldsusele ei usu, et Teine Asum on hävitatud. Ta koguni kardab, et saladuslikul Teisel Asumil on loodava Teise Galaktikaimpeeriumi suhtes võimutaotlus. Et takistada Trevize'i oma kahtlusi külvamast, pagendab Terminuse linnapea ta Trantorile, Esimese Galaktikaimpeeriumi hüljatud pealinna. Noor Trevize saab endale reisikaaslaseks Terminuse ülikooli muinasajaloo professori Janov Pelorati, kes loodab leida Trantorilt tõendeid inimsoo algplaneedi asukoha kohta. Tema usk Maa olemasollu on niisama suur kui Trevize'i veendumus, et Teist Asumit polegi hävitatud. Tõde, mis mõlemale selgub, on kummalisem, kui asjaosalised oleksid osanud oodata. Ameerika ulmekirjanik Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) jutustab oma raamatusarja kolmandas osas salapärase Teise Asumi otsimisest, alguses Muula ja seejärel Esimese Asumi poolt. Asumi sari on ulmekirjanduse suurmeistri Isaac Asimovi (1920-1992) kõige õnnestunum ja tuntum teos. Esialgu oli see mõeldud triloogiana, millesse kuulusid "Asum", "Asum ja Impeerium" ning "Teine Asum". Lugejate ja kirjastajate pealekäimisel kirjutas autor veel neli Asumi-sarja romaani: "Asumi äär", "Asum ja Maa", "Enne Asumit" ja "Edasi, Asum". Kaks esimest kujutavad endast ajaliselt klassikalise triloogia järgesid, samal ajal kui kaks viimast eelnevad tegevustikult viiele mainitud Asumi-sarja romaanile. Kirjastus Eesti Raamat annab käesoleval aastal välja kogu Asumi-sarja ühtse kujunduse ja formaadiga raamatutena.

Chto mozhet zastavit robota lgat svoim sozdateljam? Zachem superkompjuteru pokhischat inzhenerov, zamaniv na bort kosmicheskogo korablja? Chto otlichaet robota ot uspeshnogo politika? Ja, robot - kniga, stavshaja klassikoj nauchnoj fantastiki i zalozhivshaja osnovy novoj otrasli znanij. Azimov, formuliruja tri osnovnykh zakona robotekhniki, prizvannykh obespechit sosuschestvovanie cheloveka i robota, demonstriruet pri etom ikh ujazvimost. Pisatel pytaetsja obnaruzhit vse vozmozhnye problemy miroporjadka, v kotorom roboty ne tolko objazany spasat zhizni ljudej, no i berut v svoi ruki reshenie sudeb vsego chelovechestva. Kniga dlja chtenija na anglijskom jazyke. Uroven A2. Dopolnitelnoe opisanie: Adaptatsija, sokraschenie i slovar A. I. BerestovojRedaktor: Podosenova O. I.

A must-read for any science fiction fan, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two (published in two volumes, A & B) is a compilation of twenty-two of the best novellas published between 1895 and 1962. The two volumes were originally published

V knige znamenitogo fantasta, uchenogo s mirovym imenem A. Azimova jarko i uvlekatelno povestvuetsja o zarozhdenii i razvitii interesnoj i slozhnoj nauki biologii ot sueverij i predrassudkov drevnosti do sovremennykh fundamentalnykh teorij. Avtor zhivo i dokhodchivo rasskazyvaet o znamenitykh uchenykh i ikh otkrytijakh. A takzhe o zarozhdenii smezhnykh s biologiej nauk i perspektivnykh nauchnykh izyskanijakh.

Caught up in an experiment gone wrong, Joseph Schwartz is transported forward in time from post-war Chicago to the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, despised by the other two hundred million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it as the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil – so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty. And Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two. Asimov’s Galactic Empire novels are among the earliest stories by one of the twentieth century’s greatest visionaries. Filled with ideas and wonders, they are classic adventures from science fiction’s Golden Age.

Mankind has conquered space and moved toward the starry heart of the galaxy. Earth is a planet of no importance, riddled with radioactivity by long-forgotten wars. When assassins target his rooms and news arrives that, many light-years away, his father has been murdered, student Biron Farrill flees for his life. Stunned, grief-stricken, and outraged, Biron is determined to uncover the reasons behind his father's death, and finds himself entangled in a web of deep-space rebellion, espionage, and political intrigue. Asimov’s Galactic Empire novels are among the earliest stories by one of the twentieth century’s greatest visionaries. Filled with ideas and wonders, they are classic adventures from science fiction’s Golden Age.

Det väldiga Vintergatsimperiet vittrar sönder efter tolv tusen år. I detta begynnande kaos uppenbarar sig veten­skapsmannen Hari Seldon, som vigt sitt liv åt att utveckla psykohistoria, en sorts beteendevetenskap som kan förutse och påverka framtiden. Och framtiden är inte ljus. För att förkorta trettio tusen år av krig och barbari ska­par Seldon Stiftelsen. Här arbetar de så kallade encyklope­disterna skenbart med att samla människans hela vetande, men i själva verket förbereder de mänsklighetens räddning. Asimovs episka berättelse kan läsas som en allegori över människans ständiga strävan att behärska sin till­varo. Asimov skrev flera sidoberättelser och fördjupade i flera verk sin litterära värld, men just Stiftelsetrilogin (1942–1949) var en exempellös framgång och banade väg för science fictiongenren världen över. Isaac Asimov (1922–1992) är en av de mest uppskattade science fiction-författarna. Han föddes i en by utanför Smolensk i dåvarande Sovjetunionen. När han var tre år gammal emigrerade hela familjen till USA där han blev professor i biokemi och skrev hundratals böcker inom flera fält. Stiftelsetrilogin räknas till de viktigaste och mest uppmärksammade verken i science fictiongenren.

V knige prosto i dostupno izlozhena istorija vozniknovenija i razvitija khimii. Avtor privodit mnogo interesnykh svedenij o molekulakh i atomakh, izomerakh i radikalakh, ob elektrolize i katalize, valentnosti i radioaktivnosti, periodicheskoj sisteme Mendeleeva, populjarno tolkuet sut slozhnykh teoreticheskikh ponjatij. Chitatelej takzhe zhdet uvlekatelnyj ekskurs v smezhnye otrasli znanij: fizicheskuju khimiju, khimicheskuju termodinamiku, biokhimiju.

En esta historia, y en algunas otras del per odo que se ocupan de Multivac, la describ a como una m quina terriblemente grande, careciendo de la oportunidad de predecir la miniaturizaci n y etereolizaci n de los ordenadores.

Cuando me faltaba poco para cumplir los veinte a os y era ya un endurecido lector de ciencia ficci n, llevaba le das muchas historias de robots, y hab a descubierto que pod an calificarse en dos categor as. En la primera categor a estaban los Robots-como-Amenaza. No tengo que explicar demasiado esto. Tales historias eran una mezcla de clanc-clanc y aarghh y Hay algunas cosas que se supone que el hombre no debe conocer. Al cabo de un tiempo empezaron a palidecer a mis ojos, y ya no pude seguir soport ndolas

A classic work in the history of science, and described as “a good book on rocket stuff…that’s a really fun one” by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades. This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space.

A classic work in the history of science, and described as “a good book on rocket stuff…that’s a really fun one” by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades. This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space.

Isaac Asimovâ??s Robot series â?? from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels â?? contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day.