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100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories

Joseph D. Olander & Martin Greenberg & Isaac Asimov

First published 1980
Publisher Avon
Format Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages xx+296
Price $2.50
ISBN 0380507730


• "First Avon Printing, August, 1980"; no number line • The cover artist/designer is not credited, no visible signature • Though Martin Greenberg's middle name is on the copyright page [not the initial] neither is on the title page, cover or spine • 50773 is on the cover, full ISBN on the spine and copyright page

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 A Loint of Paw Isaac Asimov Short Story
2 The Advent on Channel Twelve C. M. Kornbluth Short Story
6 Plaything Larry Niven Short Story
10 The Misfortune Cookie Charles E. Fritch Short Story
14 I Wish I May, I Wish I Might Bill Pronzini Short Story
18 FTA George R. R. Martin Short Story
21 Trace Jerome Bixby Short Story
25 The Ingenious Patriot Ambrose Bierce Short Story
26 Zoo Edward D. Hoch Short Story
28 The Destiny of Milton Gomrath Alexei Panshin Short Story
30 The Devil and the Trombone Martin Gardner Short Story
33 Upstart Steven Utley Short Story
37 How It All Went Gregory Benford Short Story
41 Harry Protagonist, Brain-Drainer Richard Wilson Short Story
43 Peeping Tommy Robert F. Young Short Story
47 Starting from Scratch Robert Sheckley Short Story
51 Corrida Roger Zelazny Short Story
54 Shall the Dust Praise Thee? Damon Knight Short Story
57 Bug-Getter R. Bretnor Short Story
61 The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass Frederik Pohl Essay
65 Fire Sale Laurence M. Janifer Short Story
69 Safe at Any Speed Larry Niven Short Story
72 The Masks James Blish Short Story
76 Innocence Joanna Russ Short Story
78 Kin Richard Wilson Short Story
81 The Long Night Ray Russell Short Story
83 Sanity Clause Edward Wellen Short Story
88 If at First You Don't Succeed, to Hell with It! Charles E. Fritch Short Story
93 The Question Donald E. Westlake & Laurence M. Janifer Short Story
96 The Perfect Woman Robert Sheckley Short Story
100 The System Ben Bova Short Story
101 Exile to Hell Isaac Asimov Short Story
105 Inaugural Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini Short Story
108 Martha Fred Saberhagen Short Story
110 Kindergarten Fritz Leiber Short Story
113 Landscape with Sphinxes Karen Anderson Short Story
116 The Happiest Day of Your Life Bob Shaw Short Story
120 The Worlds of Monty Willson William F. Nolan Short Story
123 Punch Frederik Pohl Short Story
127 Doctor Henry Slesar Short Story
129 The Man from When Dannie Plachta Short Story
131 Crying Willow Edward Rager Short Story
135 January 1975 Barry N. Malzberg Short Story
137 Mail Supremacy Hayford Peirce Short Story
141 Mistake Larry Niven Short Story
143 Half-Baked Publisher's Delight Isaac Asimov & Jeffrey S. Hudson Short Story
148 Far from Home Walter S. Tevis Short Story
152 Swords of Ifthan James E. Sutherland Short Story
154 Argent Blood Joe L. Hensley Short Story
159 Collector's Fever Roger Zelazny Short Story
162 Sign at the End of the Universe Duane Ackerson Short Story
162 Stubborn Stephen Goldin Short Story
164 The Re-Creation Robert E. Toomey, Jr. Short Story
165 Feeding Time Robert Sheckley Short Story
166 The Better Man Ray Russell Short Story
169 Oom Martin Gardner Short Story
171 Merchant Henry Slesar Short Story
172 Don't Fence Me In Richard Wilson Short Story
176 The Die-Hard Alfred Bester Short Story
181 The First Anthony Boucher Short Story
184 Eripmav Damon Knight Short Story
189 The Voice from the Curious Cube Nelson Bond Short Story
192 I'm Going to Get You F. M. Busby Short Story
195 The Room Ray Russell Short Story
198 Dry Spell Bill Pronzini Short Story
200 Bohassian Learns William Rotsler Short Story
204 Star Bride Anthony Boucher Short Story
207 Latest Feature Maggie Nadler Short Story
211 Chief Henry Slesar Short Story
212 After You've Stood on the Log at the Center of the Universe, What Is There Left to Do? Grant Carrington Short Story
216 Maid to Measure Damon Knight Short Story
219 Eyes Do More Than See Isaac Asimov Short Story
222 Thang Martin Gardner Short Story
223 How Now Purple Cow Bill Pronzini Short Story
227 Revival Meeting Dannie Plachta Short Story
229 Prototaph Keith Laumer Short Story
233 The Rocket of 1955 C. M. Kornbluth Short Story
235 Kindergarten James E. Gunn Short Story
235 Science Fiction for Telepaths E. Michael Blake Short Story
238 A Little Knowledge Paul Dellinger Short Story
240 A Cup of Hemlock Lee Killough Short Story
241 Present Perfect Thomas F. Monteleone Short Story
245 A Lot to Learn Robert T. Kurosaka Short Story
246 The Amphibious Cavalry Gap James E. Thompson Short Story
249 Not Counting Bridges Robert L. Fish Short Story
251 The Man Inside Bruce McAllister Short Story
253 The Mars Stone Paul Bond Short Story
255 Source Material Mildred Downey Broxon Short Story
257 The Compleat Consummators Alan E. Nourse Short Story
262 Examination Day Henry Slesar Short Story
266 The Man Who Could Turn Back the Clock Ralph Milne Farley Short Story
268 Patent Rights Daniel A. Darlington Short Story
270 The Sky's an Oyster; the Stars Are Pearls Dave Bischoff Short Story
273 Alien Cornucopia Walt Liebscher Short Story
275 The Last Paradox Edward D. Hoch Short Story
277 Course of Empire Richard Wilson Short Story
281 Synchronicity James E. Thompson Short Story
286 Sweet Dreams, Melissa Stephen Goldin Short Story
291 The Man on Top R. Bretnor Short Story
296 Rejection Slip K. W. MacAnn Short Story
xix The Science Fiction Blowgun Isaac Asimov Essay