Opus 300 by Isaac Asimov (Houghton Mifflin, December 10, 1984, 0-395-36108-7, $18.95, xv+377pp, hc, co)
Non-fiction, associational, with material from Asimov’s third set of 100 books, plus the new essay “The Forever Foundation”.
- xi · Introduction · Isaac Asimov · in
- 1 · Part 1. Astronomy
- 4 · Extraterrestrial Civilizations · Isaac Asimov · ex Crown, June 1979
- 23 · Visions of the Universe · Isaac Asimov · ex Cosmos Store, May 1981
- 25 · Venus, Near Neighbor of the Sun · Isaac Asimov · ex Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, March 1981
- 31 · Pluto · Isaac Asimov · si The Science Fictional Solar System ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Harper & Row, 1979
- 35 · Foundation’s Edge [Foundation] · Isaac Asimov · ex Doubleday, October 1982
- 45 · Part 2. Earth Sciences
- 48 · Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos · Isaac Asimov · ex Crown, April 1982
- 54 · How Did We Find Out About Volcanoes? · Isaac Asimov · ex Ward, Lock & Co., May 1981
- 58 · The Floating Crystal Palace · Isaac Asimov · ar The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1978
- 71 · Part 3. Mathematics
- 73 · To Ungild Refined Gold · Isaac Asimov · ar The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1983
- 85 · The Measure of the Universe · Isaac Asimov · ex Harper & Row, June 1983
- 103 · 1 to 999 [Union Club] · Isaac Asimov · ss Gallery September 1981, as “One in a Thousand”
- 111 · Part 4. Physics
- 113 · Let Einstein Be! · Isaac Asimov · ar The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1981
- 125 · Converting It All · Isaac Asimov · ar American Way June 1980
- 129 · Part 5. Chemistry
- 131 · Big Brother · Isaac Asimov · ar The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1982
- 142 · Bread and Stone · Isaac Asimov · ar The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1982
- 153 · Part 6. Biology
- 155 · How Did We Find Out About Genes? · Isaac Asimov · ex Ward, Lock & Co., August 1983
- 157 · How Did We Find Out About the Beginning of Life? · Isaac Asimov · ex Ward, Lock & Co., June 1982
- 159 · How Did We Find Out About Our Human Roots? · Isaac Asimov · ex Ward, Lock & Co., June 1979
- 161 · Introduction to “Invariant” · Isaac Asimov · is Caught in the Organ Draft ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983
- 163 · Clone, Clone of My Own · Isaac Asimov · ar The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1979
- 175 · Part 7. Robots and Computers
- 178 · The Robots of Dawn [Elijah (Lije) Baley; Robots] · Isaac Asimov · ex Doubleday, 1983
- 191 · Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot · Isaac & Janet Asimov · ex Walker, 1983
- 197 · A Perfect Fit · Isaac Asimov · ss Cahners Publishing Co., October 14 1981
- 205 · The Word Processor and I · Isaac Asimov · ar Popular Computing February 1982
- 209 · Part 8. History
- 211 · A Choice of Catastrophes · Isaac Asimov · ex Simon & Schuster, September 1979
- 231 · Part 9. The Bible
- 234 · In the Beginning · Isaac Asimov · ex Crown, February 1981
- 245 · Part 10. Short-Shorts
- 247 · About Nothing · Isaac Asimov · vi Post Card Partnership, 1975, as “untitled (“All of Earth waited…”)”
- 248 · Sure Thing · Isaac Asimov · vi Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Summer 1977
- 249 · Death of a Foy · Isaac Asimov · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1980
- 251 · How It Happened · Isaac Asimov · vi Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine Spring 1979
- 253 · Part 11. Humor
- 255 · A Grossery of Limericks · Isaac Asimov · gp (r)
- _255 · Symmetry · Isaac Asimov · pm A Grossery of Limericks by Isaac Asimov & John Ciardi, W.W. Norton, 1981
- _255 · Standing Ovation · Isaac Asimov · pm A Grossery of Limericks by Isaac Asimov & John Ciardi, W.W. Norton, 1981
- _256 · Mind Your Own Business · Isaac Asimov · pm A Grossery of Limericks by Isaac Asimov & John Ciardi, W.W. Norton, 1981
- _256 · The Table Round · Isaac Asimov · pm A Grossery of Limericks by Isaac Asimov & John Ciardi, W.W. Norton, 1981
- _256 · Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel · Isaac Asimov · pm A Grossery of Limericks by Isaac Asimov & John Ciardi, W.W. Norton, 1981
- 257 · A Fuller Explanation of Original Sin · Isaac Asimov · pm from Laughing Space, Houghton Mifflin, February 1982
- 258 · The Smile That Loses [Azazel] · Isaac Asimov · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1982
- 267 · Part 12. Social Sciences
- 269 · Alas, All Human · Isaac Asimov · ar The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1979
- 280 · The Blind Who Would Lead · Isaac Asimov · ar Maclean’s February 2 1981
- 283 · That Old-Time Violence · Isaac Asimov · ar TV Guide June 14 1975, as “Violence—as Human as Thumbs”
- 287 · Part 13. Literature
- 289 · The Annotated Gulliver’s Travels · Isaac Asimov · ex Potter, November 1980
- 293 · On Style · Isaac Asimov · fw Who Done It? ed. Alice Laurance & Isaac Asimov, Houghton Mifflin, 1980
- 300 · First Person · Isaac Asimov · in The Future I ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander, Fawcett, 1981
- 305 · Part 14. Mysteries
- 307 · What Time Is It? [Black Widowers] · Isaac Asimov · ss The Casebook of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov, Doubleday, 1980
- 324 · The Library Book [Union Club] · Isaac Asimov · ss Gallery July 1982, as “Mystery Book”
- 331 · Part 15. Autobiography
- 333 · My Father · Isaac Asimov · bg The Roving Mind by Isaac Asimov, Prometheus Books, 1983
- 341 · Part 16. Science Fiction
- 343 · The Boom in Science Fiction · Isaac Asimov · ed Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine Fall 1979
- 346 · The Ring of Evil · Isaac Asimov · ar Panorama May 1980, as “The One Ring Is What We Make It” [Ref. J. R. R. Tolkien]
- 351 · Part 17. Miscellaneous
- 354 · Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts · Isaac Asimov · ex Grosset & Dunlap, October 1979
- 357 · The Delight of Uncertainty · Isaac Asimov · in Isaac Asimov Presents Super Quiz II by Ken Fisher, Dembner Books, 1983
- 361 · Part 18. Bonus
- 363 · The Forever Generation · Isaac Asimov · ar
- 373 · Appendix: My Third Hundred Books · Isaac Asimov · bi
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