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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Joanna Russ: 1965 Stories (more or less): "Come Closer", ''Life in a Furniture Store", "Wilderness Year" and "I Had Vacantly Crumpled It into My Pocket...But By God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life!": Short Story Wednesday

These first three stories included in Russ's 1998 volume (and the last collection of her fiction to be offered during her lifetime) The Hidden Side of the Moon (St. Martin's Press). There was some critical consensus that this volume was "disappointing" after two, The Zanzibar Cat and (Extra)Ordinary People, which concentrated almost exclusively on her fantastic-fiction writing, but I'd disagree, given the general excellence of the work collected here (much of it more "challenging" than the earlier collections' contents); this volume does give a rather more wide-ranging account of her writing career, as well. 


A (slightly-off-center) photo of the US trade paperback edition (which is the version I own).














"I Had Vacantly Crumpled It into My Pocket...But By God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life!", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1964, edited by Avram Davidson; in the French edition, Fiction, May 1965, edited by Alain Dorémieux, as "La jeune fille en noir" (hence, the latter first appearance a weak excuse for inclusion here thus). Can be read here.

"Come Closer", Magazine of Horror, August 1965, edited by Robert A. W. Lowndes. Can be read here.

"Life in a Furniture Store", Epoch, Fall 1965, edited by Baxter Hutchison, A. R. Ammons, et al.; Managing Editor Barbara Hutchison. Can be read here.

...and a somewhat jokey, notional vignette, published as "Wilderness Year" (as Russ is quoted in the headnote as not being able to settle on a title), F&SF, December 1964, edited by Edward Ferman (though credited to his father, publisher Joseph Ferman) and never reprinted (hence a slightly less weak excuse for inclusion). Can be read here.





















































Joanna Russ was still a relatively new professional writer as well as academic in 1964, having published her poetry for the first time with Epoch in 1955 (and, apparently, with Red Clay Reader, another notable "little" magazine, in 1954--though that could be a typo in the bibliography linked to at the foot of this post, as RCR at least began a new series in 1964), after some work in the campus publication The Cornell Writer, and her first general newsstand-circulation publication in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1962. But her stories in 1965 were already indicative of her moving in the directions that would make her later work so influential, as well as demonstrating her wit and willingness to examine old tropes already well-developed. 

"I Had Vacantly Crumpled It into My Pocket...But By God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life!" from the August 1964 issue of F&SF (an issue I have discussed on this blog before!), even by its title, a lift from H. P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model", puts it, in a way, in the tradition of those writers who liked to play in the Mythos created by Lovecraft and extended by many of his writer friends while he was alive, and by their heirs afterward, but in a more (but not completely) satirical mode than most of those stories by other hands, positing an awkward youngish office worker (and Lovecraft superfan) who falls under the thrall of a seemingly other-worldly woman, while earnestly and cluelessly trying to woo her, with requested advice from one of his friendlier office-mates, one of the few women he knows well enough to ask for advice. Thus does the narrator do her best to help her colleague figure out a game-plan that might not alienate the woman, while noting from the beginning something seemingly Different about his newfound crush. Things do not go so well for him. (Russ will touch on Lovecraftian flavors again with "My Boat", one of her best 1970s stories.)

"Come Closer" is, in a sense, an even more sinister variation, deftly and offhandedly retold by an adult woman protagonist, on the Grimm-collected "Hansel and Gretel" and similar stories...she is one of the neighborhood volunteers looking for a lost child one northern-climes winter's day, who finds an oddly blooming garden of fruit trees and the like around a somewhat isolated house in the forest, and an even odder set of occupants within. Both these stories stand up as effective horror fiction, neither too pastiche-laden nor walking away from the inherent strangeness of their inspirations, while Russ is working at taking new approaches (and feeling her way to some of her eventually central gender-related concerns) in how to tell an unnerving tale.

"Life in a Furniture Store" is more allusive, and considerably more stylized; it flirts with at least the metaphors of horror and supernatural fiction while being at heart a contemporary-mimetic story, from the point of view of extremely alienated woman, who has never found a comfortable role in the world, and this is demonstrated by her accounts of how she loses her long-term adult job (deftly drawn) and her marriage ends (less detailed, but convincing). Much of this is reflected in how Russ has her narrate the story, with suggestions that her protagonist will tell a fairly straightforward account of her continuing estrangement from society and happiness, but she doesn't, quite...the closest she comes is in recounting an evening while she's not quite sure she wishes to accept the small but earnest romantic advances of one of her friends, clearly a lesbian who desires her but also doesn't want to further alienate her. Or, at least, our protagonist seems to see her this way, while eventually describing herself as a sort of ghost in her world...somewhat akin to something like the film Compulsion, with far less melodrama. The "Contributors" editorial in the Epoch issue notes that Russ's "kind of experimental fiction deserves close scrutiny." As with most of Russ's work, it's graceful and witty...though perhaps even some of her adult-life coping with physical pain is reflected in a few passages, something which would literally and figurative cramp her ability to do her best work, particularly in her last years.

"Wilderness Year" is a nice, straightforward anecdote, in comparison, with an amusing if not fully convincing twist ending that works in its joking context, as well as provides a kind of mild conceptual expansion. 

(indices and photos below include my original work--the Epoch issue--and tweaking/poaching of pre-existing indices and images from the FictionMags Index and ISFDB--both of which I've contributed indices and image to).



Epoch:  A Magazine of Contemporary Literature Fall 1965, Vol. XV, No. 1; 96 pp plus covers, tall digest (approx. 1/2 inch taller than the "Dell Magazines" today)

edited by Baxter Hathaway, Walter Slatoff, James McConkey, Don W. Kleine, Steven Katz, A. R. Ammons, Edgar Rosenberg and Geoffrey Hartman; Managing Editor: Barbara Hutchison; Assistant Editors: Walter F. Alexander, Geof Hewitt, Edwin Howard, Mary N. Gonzales, M. Jay Pearce and Stuart Peterfreund. Published in October, January and April by Cornell University. One Dollar a Copy, Three Dollars a Volume. 

2 * Contributors * uncredited * ed/notes
3 * Lunch in the Cafeteria Room * David Ray* pm
8 * Euthanasia * Edward Hower * nv
36 * The Room * Wendell Berry * pm
37 * Stanzas to My Father * Harold Schimmel * pm
37 * New York City, 1939 * Harold Schimmel * pm
38 * Havdala * Harold Schimmel * pm
39 * Still Life I; Still Life II * Harold Schimmel * pm/gp
40 * Looking at the Morning Light * Harold Schimmel * pm
40 * Landscape * Gloria MacArthur * pm
41 * Friday Afternoon * Frazer MacLean * ss
59 * The Scaffoldings I Wear * George Hitchcock * pm
60 * Portrait While Sinking * George Hitchcock * pm
61 * Theft * Jack Anthem * ss
71 * Life in a Furniture Store * Joanna Russ * ss
83 * The Marvelous Dog * Peter Wild * pm
84 * Waiting for You in San Francisco * Peter Wild * pm
84 * The Tawny Fox * Peter Wild * pm
86 * A Question of Clouds * Theodore Holmes * pm
87 * Chichén Itzá * Robert Abell * pm
88 * Evening * Alfred Starr Hamilton * pm
89 * Notes, Reviews, Speculations: "To Hold Both History and Wilderness in Mind": The Poetry of Gary Snyder * Richard Howard * es

Joanna Russ on Sweet Freedom

Bibliography of Russ's work by Ethan Robinson

Demand My Writing, a study by Jeanne Cortiel

Gary Farber, a friend of Russ's in her later years, was moved to comment on Facebook about this post:

I was Joanna's houseboy for a week, after one of her many back surgeries left her unable to get out of bed for that week.
She also usually came to our monthly Vanguard parties, as well as some other gatherings in the Seattle sf community, back in the late Seventies/early Eighties.
I have fond memories of her conversations with various of us about slash fiction, which formed the basis of several of her later essays.
Among other fond memories.
I also got to read the manuscript of WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO... when my friend was copyediting it.
She also had the most severe palate of anyone I've ever met, in refusing absolutely anything with salt or spice or many other ingredients to the faintest degree, even unto cake ingredients. 🙂
Brilliant writer and essayist and thinker.

for more of today's SSW reviews & more, please see Patti Abbott's blog

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Friday, January 7, 2022

FFMagazines: SPECIAL REPORT: FICTION May-July 1990: "Humor" issue; edited by Keith Bellows: contributions by Harvey Jacobs, Elizabeth Berg, Roy Blount, Jr., et al. (in progress)

Special Report: Fiction, May-July 1990, no volume nor issue numbers, Humor issue. William S. Rukeyser, editor-in-chief; Keith Bellows, editor; Elise Nakhnikian, managing editor (Whittle Communications, $3.50--though not known ever to be distributed to newsstands, individual issues were offered for sale, including postage, for that amount, with a four-issue yearly subscription for $14), 70pp plus covers, 10.5x14" full-color slick with heavier-grade slick paper covers. Cover photograph by Philip Saltonstall; another on the TOC on page 1.

2 * Letters: Ramsey Campbell, complimenting the fantastica issue, August-October 1989/"Another Dimension", which reprinted his story "Little Man" (originally in Night Cry, Winter 1986); also letters from Donna D. Vitucci, Pamela Kennedy, Lillian J. Taylor, Andrea Cirillo, Ann Shields, Lottie T. Caldwell, and Sarah Aronson
5 * In This Issue: What's So Funny? *  The Editors* ed/cs (illus. as a comic strip by Joey Waldon) 
7 * Salvation Sunday * Liz Newall * ss (illus. Laura Levine)
12 * Liz Newall * anon * bi (photo by Brian Dressler)
14 * About Men * Jay Neugeboren * vi (illus. Dudley Reed)
16 * Jay Neugeboren * anon * bi (photo by Chris Wade)
19 * The Poet Lariat * Roy Blount, Jr. * poems about Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Donne, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Jonathan Swift, Stephen King, William Faulkner * gp/hu (illus. Edward Sorel)
23 * Second Thoughts * Elizabeth Berg * ss  (illus. Cary Bartholomew)
31 * Elizabeth Berg * anon * bi  (photo by John Goodman)
33 * 3 Faces of Fiction  (Humor, Mysteries, Romance) * Walter Gurbo * cartoons
34 * Because It Was There * Harvey Jacobs * ss (illus. John Craig)
40 * Harvey Jacobs * anon * bi (photo by Patrick Harbron)
43 * Pequod II * Frank Gannon * hu (illus. Robert de Michiell)
46 * Hotline! * William Price Fox * ss (illus. Karen Kuehn)
55 * William Price Fox * anon * bi (photo by Brian Dressler)
57 * Punch Lines * gp/hu (excerpts) 
57 * Bred Men Don't Wear Checks * P. G. Wodehouse * ex (from The World of Jeeves, Harper & Row 1967) (illus. Tom Bachtell)
57 * Easy Come, Easy Go * Elmore Leonard * ex (from Labrava, Arbor House 1983) 
57 * Dinner's in the Freezer * Calvin Trillin * ex (from "Barnett Frummer Learns to Distinguish Packaged Paprika From the Real Article" The New Yorker 31 March 1967/Barnett Frummer is an Unbloomed Flower E. P. Dutton 1971) (illus. Tim Lewis)
57 * Remedies that Stink * Mark Twain * ex (from "Curing a Cold" The Golden Era 20 September 1863) (illus. Robert Andrew Parker) 
58 * Till Flirting Do Us Part * "Groucho" Marx * ex (from "Private Life" in The Groucho Letters Simon & Schuster 1967) (illus. Robert Andrew Parker)
58 * Shall We Dance? * Dorothy Parker * ex (from "The Waltz" The New Yorker 2 September 1933) 
58 * Lonely at the Top * Gracie Allen * ex ("If you don't have time to cultivate all your friendships, plow under every fifth one.") from How to Become President Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1940
58 * Children We're Stuck With * Fran Liebowitz * ex (from Metropolitan Life E. P. Dutton 1978) (illus. Tim Lewis)
58 * The Trick to Toy Assembly * S. J. Perelman * ex (from "Insert Flap A and Throw Away" The New Yorker 5 February 1944) (illus. Tom Bachtell)
60 * The Long Fly Ball * Bill Bickel * ss (illus. Steve Carver)
65 * Bill Bickel * anon * bi (photo by Joyce Ravid) ("Bickel, now 35, lives in Hillside, NJ"--thus born 1955, NYC, raised in Yonkers and spent most of his adult life in Northern NJ...thanks to Dennis Lien, I've learned he died on 16 September 2020. Obituary/remembrance on his Comics I Don't Understand site)
68 * Elsewhere in Special Reports * house ad for the other Special Report: magazines, about health, sports, etc., part of a line of quarterly magazines sold primarily to and for doctors' offices.
70 * Passages * ex from a story/article in each Special Reports: current issue * house ad

A review of the contents will be posted tomorrow (or, really, later today)...even given the relative difficulty in trying to strike a balance between the types of humorous writing, this issue is reasonably successful, even if the cover was the worst I saw on an issue of Special Report: Fiction during its brief run, if more in concept than execution. The image below is more "bleached" than my copy's front cover. 

Bickel's story is a baseball fantasy; the Jacobs story is a well-turned satire on corporate dissembling; the Newall story a gently funny account of church-based romance. More post-sleep.















images courtesy layout designer William Grimes






























Previous index and review here:

Incomplete contents of two previous issues:
Special Report: Fiction November 1989-January 1990: Growing Up Female
A Single Ounce of Good * Kaye Gibbons * ex A Virtuous Woman Algonquin Books 1989
In the Courtyard of the Five Julias * Anna Monardo * ss 
--from references in the letter column detailed above

Special Report: Fiction August-October 1989: Another Dimension
Little Man * Ramsey Campbell * ss  from Night Cry Winter 1986 (as noted above)
I Just Kept Staring at the Rock * Bill Bickel * vi --cited in his bio blurb indexed above; Bickel in ISFDB and in the Fictionmags Index

Publisher Chris Whittle standing in front of first-issue cover images from other Special Report: magazine titles: Health. Living. Family. Whittle had been publisher of Esquire.
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Friday, July 27, 2018

FFB: SWORDS AND DEVILTRY by Fritz Leiber (Ace 1970); NIGHTFALL AND OTHER STORIES by Isaac Asimov (Doubleday 1969)

Two books which haven't been Forgotten so much as absorbed into larger editions, which are in print at very least after a fashion, or in the case of the Leiber, are also reprinted in very expensive. lavish collectors' editions over the last couple of years (three Centipede Press editions, ranging in original price from $75-$300). 

 Swords and Deviltry collects, in terms of narrative or internal chronology, the first three stories of the swordsmen, thieves and mercenaries Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, the former a tall hulking figure from the barbarian North of the planet Nehwon (which notably is a reversal of "No when", a bit of tribute to Samuel Butler's Erewhon), the latter a short, slight man of great agility and speed, from points southerly; they eventually meet in their world's largest city, Lankhmar. The first novella, "The Snow Women", gives Fafhrd's origin story, as the magical apron-string-bound prince of the Snow Clan finds love with visiting young woman, in with the annual visitation of outlander traders and show people; Fafhrd being a sort of analog of Leiber himself, raised largely by aunts while his parents were touring the country with their Shakespearean troupe. "The Unholy Grail", a novelet written a decade earlier, gives the early years of Mouse, who would become the Mouser, their innings; Harry Fischer, a great friend of Leiber, and direct collaborator on several of the early stories in the F&GM series, was the model for Mouse/the Gray Mouser. And "Ill Met in Lankhmar", a 1970 novella which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for Leiber (in those years where there was, for a while, no regular award for fantasy fiction), brings the two men and their womenfriends together for the first time...and binds them with even greater tragedy than they faced earlier. The first and third stories had been written in the wake of the rather early death of Leiber's wife, Jonquil, which had sent him into probably his most profound alcoholic tailspin, a recurring problem for Leiber, which he would often use the writing of Fafhrd and Mouser stories to help overcome. Of all the Ace paperback volumes which initially gathered the sword and sorcery fiction of Leiber, this one has always been the dearest to me, even given the relative lack of heft of "The Unholy Grail"--more than made up for by both the novellas...which notably appeared in the same cover-dates for the two most notable English-language fantasy-fiction magazines in 1970, Fantastic and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Most of the other Ace volumes would mix stories of varying quality, from readable at worst to utterly brilliant, but "Ill Met" is one of the best, if not the best, of the stories in the series, and "The Snow Women" is funny and sharply observed, almost as deft in its satire of sexual politics (from an essentially pro-feminist, but not at all obsequiously so, point of view, not unlike his brilliant first novel, Conjure Wife...and incorporating some of the resentment of Leiber would express for the restrictiveness of his upbringing, and its consequences, in other stories, such as "Gonna Roll the Bones"). 
First edition, art by Jeff Jones.


























    • Author’s Introduction · in
    • Induction · vi
    • The Snow Women · na Fantastic Apr 1970
    • The Unholy Grail · nv Fantastic Oct 1962
    • Ill Met in Lankhmar · na F&SF Apr 1970
































April 1970



























April 1970
































October 1962
The first trade omnibus to incorporate Swords & Deviltry
(there was a SF Book Club omnibus in 1989) White Wolf 1995



































Ill Met in Lankhmar Fritz Leiber (White Wolf/Borealis 1-56504-926-8, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], $19.99, 337pp, hc, cover by Mike Mignola & Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh) [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser] Omnibus of the first two collections featuring Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, Swords and Deviltry (Ace 1970) and Swords Against Death (Ace 1970). There is a new introduction by Michael Moorcock. The introductory material by Leiber himself is taken from the 1977 Gregg Press editions, and includes pieces dated 1962, 1973, 1974, and 1977.
  • vii · Introduction · Michael Moorcock · in
  • 1 · Original Author’s Introduction · in
  • 21 · The Gray Mouser: 1 · pm
  • 22 · The Gray Mouser: 2 · pm
  • 23 · Induction · vi
  • 25 · The Snow Women · na Fantastic Apr ’70
  • 85 · The Unholy Grail · nv Fantastic Oct ’62
  • 107 · Ill Met in Lankhmar · na F&SF Apr ’70
  • 160 · Author’s Foreword · fw
  • 161 · The Circle Curse · ss Swords Against Death, Ace, 1970
  • 171 · The Jewels in the Forest [“Two Sought Adventure”] · nv Unknown Aug ’39
  • 199 · Thieves’ House · nv Unknown Feb ’43
  • 225 · The Bleak Shore · ss Unknown Nov ’40
  • 235 · The Howling Tower · ss Unknown Jun ’41
  • 249 · The Sunken Land · ss Unknown Feb ’42
  • 263 · The Seven Black Priests · nv Other Worlds Science Stories May ’53
  • 285 · Claws from the Night [“Dark Vengeance”] · nv Suspense Magazine Fall ’51
  • 307 · The Price of Pain-Ease · ss Swords Against Death, Ace, 1970; F&SF Oct '71
  • 317 · Bazaar of the Bizarre · nv Fantastic Aug ’63






























The First Book of Lankhmar Fritz Leiber (Orion/Gollancz 1-85798-327-0, Jun 2001, £6.99, 762pp, tp, cover by Chris Moore) [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser] Fantasy omnibus of the first four “Swords” books: Swords and Deviltry (Ace, 1970); Swords against Death (Ace, 1970); Swords in the Mist (Ace, 1968) and Swords against Wizardry (Ace, 1968). Volume 18 in the “Fantasy Masterworks” series.
  • 1 · Swords and Deviltry · co New York: Ace, 1970
  • 5 · Induction · vi
  • 7 · The Snow Women · na Fantastic Apr ’70
  • 81 · The Unholy Grail · nv Fantastic Oct ’62
  • 108 · Ill Met in Lankhmar · na F&SF Apr ’70
  • 171 · Swords Against Death · co New York: Ace, 1970
  • 177 · The Circle Curse · ss Swords Against Death, Ace, 1970
  • 188 · The Jewels in the Forest [“Two Sought Adventure”] · nv Unknown Aug ’39
  • 225 · Thieves’ House · nv Unknown Feb ’43
  • 258 · The Bleak Shore · ss Unknown Nov ’40
  • 269 · The Howling Tower · ss Unknown Jun ’41
  • 284 · The Sunken Land · ss Unknown Feb ’42
  • 302 · The Seven Black Priests · nv Other Worlds Science Stories May ’53
  • 328 · Claws from the Night [“Dark Vengeance”] · nv Suspense Magazine Fall ’51; Also published as ‘Claws in the Night’.
  • 354 · The Price of Pain-Ease · ss Swords Against Death, Ace, 1970
  • 367 · Bazaar of the Bizarre · nv Fantastic Aug ’63
  • 393 · Swords in the Mist · co New York: Ace, 1968
  • 399 · The Cloud of Hate · ss Fantastic May ’63
  • 413 · Lean Times in Lankhmar · nv Fantastic Nov ’59
  • 454 · Their Mistress, the Sea · ss Swords in the Mist, Ace, 1968
  • 458 · When the Sea-King’s Away · nv Fantastic May ’60
  • 484 · The Wrong Branch · ss Swords in the Mist, Ace, 1968
  • 491 · Adept’s Gambit · na Night’s Black Agents, Arkham, 1947
  • 577 · Swords Against Wizardry · co New York: Ace, 1968
  • 581 · In the Witch’s Tent · ss Swords Against Wizardry, Ace, 1968
  • 587 · Stardock · nv Fantastic Sep ’65
  • 652 · The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar · ss Fantastic Aug ’68
  • 669 · The Lords of Quarmall · Fritz Leiber & Harry Fischer · na Fantastic in two parts: Jan and Feb ’64 

The Centipede trade edition, 2017

While Isaac Asimov's collection Nightfall and Other Stories has been out of print under its original title since sometime after the 1991 UK edition from Grafton, though it has been incorporated into The Complete Stories, Volume 1. This was the first of Asimov's collections to be a survey of his work, including stories from nearly every phase of his career up to 1969, as opposed to his earlier collections being essentially My Recent Stories (themed collections devoted to robot stories had also appeared, which were limited surveys, and Asimov's Mysteries was published the year before, likewise intentionally if loosely delimited). For no obvious reason, such key and/or engaging stories from his career as "Green Patches", "Hostess", "What If..." and "Unto the Fourth Generation" had not been included in previous volumes; one suspects "Nightfall" previously had been overlooked in part because while it was his first story to gain widespread attention, it was the work of a 19yo, and reads like such, and apparently no few people would approach Asimov in later years and inform him that it was Still the best thing he ever wrote, not the kindest thing to say to a writer...and a plaudit that several of the stories here deserve rather more, even if there's no lack of relatively minor, if amiable, joke stories here, as well (such as "Insert Knob A in Hole B" or "What Is This Thing Called Love?"). But what made the collection particularly dear to me, aside from the better stories and general sense of fun among most of the minor ones, were the chatty story introductions that were first offered in Asimov's Mysteries and here among Asimov's collections, after the first, 1962, volume of The Hugo Winners that Asimov presented rather than actually edited. That previous collections had left out the fantasy stories, for the most part, didn't hurt my feelings as I read this one before the earlier volumes (and just before Asimov's Mysteries). 
    Nightfall and Other Stories Isaac Asimov (Doubleday, 1969, hc)
    • Nightfall · nv Astounding Sep 1941
    • Green Patches · ss Galaxy Nov 1950, as “Misbegotten Missionary”
    • Hostess · nv Galaxy May 1951
    • Breeds There a Man...? · nv Astounding Jun 1951
    • The C-Chute · nv Galaxy Oct 1951
    • "In a Good Cause—" · nv New Tales of Space and Time, ed. Raymond J. Healy, Holt 1951
    • What If... · ss Fantastic Sum 1952
    • Sally · ss Fantastic May/Jun 1953
    • Flies · ss F&SF Jun 1953
    • Nobody Here But— · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine 1953
    • It’s Such a Beautiful Day · nv Star Science Fiction Stories #3, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine 1954
    • Strikebreaker · ss Science Fiction Stories Jan 1957, as “Male Strikebreaker”
    • Insert Knob A in Hole B · vi F&SF Dec 1957
    • The Up-to-Date Sorcerer · ss F&SF Jul 1958
    • Unto the Fourth Generation · ss F&SF Apr 1959
    • What Is This Thing Called Love? · ss Amazing Mar 1961, as “Playboy and the Slime God”
    • The Machine That Won the War · ss F&SF Oct 1961
    • My Son, the Physicist! · vi Scientific American Feb 1962
    • Eyes Do More Than See · vi F&SF Apr 1965
    • Segregationist · ss Abbottempo Apr 1967



































































  • The Complete Stories, Volume One Isaac Asimov (Doubleday Foundation 0-385-41606-7, Nov ’90 [Oct ’90], $22.95, 614pp, hc, cover by Barclay Shaw) Omnibus collection of 46 stories, comprising the complete contents of Earth Is Room Enough (Doubleday 1957), Nine Tomorrows (Doubleday 1957), and Nightfall and Other Stories (Doubleday 1969). Also available in trade paperback (-41627-X).
    • vii · Introduction · in
    • · Earth Is Room Enough · co Garden City, NY: Doubleday Oct ’57
    • 3 · The Dead Past · nv Astounding Apr ’56
    • 41 · The Foundation of Science Fiction Success · pm F&SF Oct ’54
    • 43 · Franchise · ss If Aug ’55
    • 57 · Gimmicks Three [“The Brazen Locked Room”] · ss F&SF Nov ’56
    • 62 · Kid Stuff · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep ’53
    • 73 · The Watery Place · ss Satellite Oct ’56
    • 77 · Living Space · ss Science Fiction Stories May ’56
    • 89 · The Message · vi F&SF Feb ’56
    • 91 · Satisfaction Guaranteed [Susan Calvin (Robot)] · ss Amazing Apr ’51
    • 104 · Hell-Fire · vi Fantastic Universe May ’56
    • 106 · The Last Trump · ss Fantastic Universe Jun ’55
    • 120 · The Fun They Had · ss The Boys and Girls Page Dec 1 ’51; F&SF Feb ’54
    • 123 · Jokester · ss Infinity Science Fiction Dec ’56
    • 135 · The Immortal Bard · vi Universe May ’54
    • 138 · Someday · ss Infinity Science Fiction Aug ’56
    • 146 · The Author’s Ordeal · pm Science Fiction Quarterly May ’57
    • 149 · Dreaming Is a Private Thing · ss F&SF Dec ’55
    • · Nine Tomorrows · co Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959
    • 162 · Profession · na Astounding Jul ’57
    • 208 · The Feeling of Power · ss If Feb ’58
    • 217 · The Dying Night [Wendell Urth] · nv F&SF Jul ’56
    • 239 · I’m in Marsport Without Hilda · ss Venture Nov ’57
    • 250 · The Gentle Vultures · ss Super Science Fiction Dec ’57
    • 263 · All the Troubles of the World · ss Super Science Fiction Apr ’58
    • 277 · Spell My Name with an S [“S as in Zebatinsky”] · ss Star Science Fiction Magazine Jan ’58
    • 290 · The Last Question · ss Science Fiction Quarterly Nov ’56
    • 301 · The Ugly Little Boy [“Lastborn”] · nv Galaxy Sep ’58
    • · Nightfall and Other Stories · co Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969
    • 334 · Nightfall · nv Astounding Sep ’41
    • 363 · Green Patches [“Misbegotten Missionary”] · ss Galaxy Nov ’50
    • 376 · Hostess · nv Galaxy May ’51
    • 408 · Breeds There a Man...? · nv Astounding Jun ’51
    • 438 · The C-Chute · nv Galaxy Oct ’51
    • 468 · “In a Good Cause—” · nv New Tales of Space and Time, ed. Raymond J. Healy, Holt, 1951
    • 489 · What If... · ss Fantastic Sum ’52
    • 500 · Sally · ss Fantastic May/Jun ’53
    • 515 · Flies · ss F&SF Jun ’53
    • 521 · Nobody Here But— · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953
    • 531 · It’s Such a Beautiful Day · nv Star Science Fiction Stories #3, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1954
    • 550 · Strikebreaker [“Male Strikebreaker”] · ss Science Fiction Stories Jan ’57
    • 561 · Insert Knob A in Hole B · vi F&SF Dec ’57
    • 563 · The Up-to-Date Sorcerer · ss F&SF Jul ’58
    • 575 · Unto the Fourth Generation · ss F&SF Apr ’59
    • 582 · What Is This Thing Called Love? [“Playboy and the Slime God”] · ss Amazing Mar ’61
    • 593 · The Machine That Won the War · ss F&SF Oct ’61
    • 598 · My Son, the Physicist! · vi Scientific American Feb ’62
    • 602 · Eyes Do More Than See · vi F&SF Apr ’65
    • 605 · Segregationist · ss Abbottempo Apr ’67
    • 610 · I Just Make Them Up, See! · pm F&SF Feb ’58
    • 613 · Rejection Slips · pm Nine Tomorrows, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959

    the above collection also includes some selections also in:
    Asimov’s Mysteries Isaac Asimov (Doubleday, 1968, hc)
    • Introduction · in
    • The Singing Bell [Wendell Urth] · ss F&SF Jan 1955
    • The Talking Stone [Wendell Urth] · ss F&SF Oct 1955
    • What’s in a Name · ss The Saint Detective Magazine Jun 1956, as “Death of a Honey-Blonde”
    • The Dying Night [Wendell Urth] · nv F&SF Jul 1956
    • Pâté de Foie Gras · ss Astounding Sep 1956
    • The Dust of Death · ss Venture Jan 1957
    • A Loint of Paw · vi F&SF Aug 1957
    • I’m in Marsport Without Hilda · ss Venture Nov 1957
    • Marooned Off Vesta [Brandon, Shea & Moore] · ss Amazing Mar 1939
    • Anniversary [Brandon, Shea & Moore] · ss Amazing Mar 1959
    • Obituary · ss F&SF Aug 1959
    • Star Light · ss Scientific American Oct 1962, as “Starlight!”
    • The Key [Wendell Urth] · nv F&SF Oct 1966
    • The Billiard Ball · nv If Mar 1967
For more of today's books, please see Patti Abbott's blog.
Indices courtesy William Contento/Locus/ISFDB/Galactic Central.
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