Here is what the good Doctor has to say about the selection "I must admit the title of this book gives me pause. Who says the enclosed stories are my `best'? Do I? Does the editor? Or some critic? Some reader? A general vote among the entire population of the world? And whoever says it can it be so? Can the word 'best' mean anything at all, except to some particular person in some particular mood? ... So I'll be honest with all of you. What is included here in this book are a dozen stories chosen in such a way as to span a third of a century of writing ...
From backyard miracles to cosmic conundrums, enter the incredible world of Isaac Asimov. Spanning twenty-three years of Asimov's amazing career, these stories display to the full the exhilarating power of one of science fiction's most astonishing writers. Each tale is accompanied by Asimov's own intriguing account of how and why it came to be written.
Asimov's Mysteries, published in 1968, is a collection of 14 short stories by Isaac Asimov, all of them science fiction mysteries (although, as Asimov admits in the introduction, some are only borderline). The stories were all originally published in magazines between 1954 and 1967.
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The Roving Mind - Isaac Asimov
Want to encourage your offspring to pursue a career in science? Buy them this book. Isaac Asimov's death on 6 April 1992, was a great loss to the world of literary science and free thought. The prolific author's vision is unmatched today, and his pointed honesty shines through in "The Roving Mind", now reissued in this special tribute edition. This collection of essays is wide-ranging, reflecting Asimov's extraordinary skill in disseminating knowledge from across the spectrum of human thought. Some of the areas explored in this volume of 62 essays include creationism, pseudoscience, censorship, population, philosophy of science, transportation ...
If you're interested in some of Science's most fascinating secrets, or if you're just interested to learn more about modern science, or even if you are just looking for an interesting book to read - you find the right answer, told in a way that is complete, understandable, and funny. Some of the problems presented in the book are: The problem of Left and Right, The problem of Oceans, The problem of numbers and lines...
