Friday, January 17, 2003
Microcosmic Tales
selected by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander
This is the ultimate waiting room material--a book that carried me through the tedious moments of jury duty. It's a collection of short-short science fiction stories. 100 tales, each of which fills but a handful of pages. Many of them are humorous, some horrific. Plenty of them have been written by the great authors of science fiction. I'm tempted to say that all of the stories are good, because I can't remember a single klunker in the lot. Anyway, I'm keeping this gem on my shelf.
Labels: IsaacAsimov, OnMyShelf
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
Nightfall and Other Stories
by Isaac Asimov
Here's some irony for you: I just finish talking about exposing myself to the scientific mindset (The Soul of Science, above), and now I review a collection of stories by my favorite secular humanist, Isaac Asimov. Our theologies disagree, but I enjoy his writing, both the stories and his introductions to the same.(I don't think I've read any of his non-fiction... I may have to change that one of these years.) Anyway, this is a nice collection of tales ranging from 1941's "Nightfall" to 1967's "Segregationist". The rationale behind the collection is to see how "Nightfall", which many consider Asimov's best story, compares with his later work. He was a bit miffed that a story written so early in his career was considered his best work. Well, with all due respect to the late Dr. Asimov, I thought that "Nightfall" was the best tale in the book. Not that the rest of the book isn't great. Anyway, I enjoyed the collection immensely and recommend it to all. This one's on my shelf.
LibraryThing link
Here's some irony for you: I just finish talking about exposing myself to the scientific mindset (The Soul of Science, above), and now I review a collection of stories by my favorite secular humanist, Isaac Asimov. Our theologies disagree, but I enjoy his writing, both the stories and his introductions to the same.(I don't think I've read any of his non-fiction... I may have to change that one of these years.) Anyway, this is a nice collection of tales ranging from 1941's "Nightfall" to 1967's "Segregationist". The rationale behind the collection is to see how "Nightfall", which many consider Asimov's best story, compares with his later work. He was a bit miffed that a story written so early in his career was considered his best work. Well, with all due respect to the late Dr. Asimov, I thought that "Nightfall" was the best tale in the book. Not that the rest of the book isn't great. Anyway, I enjoyed the collection immensely and recommend it to all. This one's on my shelf.
LibraryThing link
Labels: IsaacAsimov, OnMyShelf
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