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Laughing Space

Isaac Asimov & J. O. Jeppson

First published 1982
Publisher Robson Books
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Deborah Taylor
Pages xvi+521
ISBN 0860511812

First printing. No stated price. Also includes many cartoons by Chas. Addams, Johnny Hart, Charles Schulz, Virgil Partch, Ed Fisher, Lorenz and others (not indexed below.) Gahan Wilson cartoons now indexed.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 A Fuller Explanation of Original Sin Isaac Asimov & Janet O. Jeppson Poem
5 Et Tu John Stallings Poem
6 Creation L. Sprague de Camp Poem
8 Stag Night, Paleolithic Ogden Nash Poem
9 An Epicurean Fragment Robert Hillyer Poem
15 Spaced Out Russell Baker Short Story
17 The Coffin Cure Alan E. Nourse Short Story
30 Silenzia Alan Nelson Short Story
41 The Agony of Defeat Jack C. Haldeman, II Short Story
47 Epitaph on Ceres Sherwood Springer Poem
47 Epitaph on Rigel XII Sherwood Springer Poem
48 The Snowball Effect Katherine MacLean Short Story
59 Pâté de Foie Gras Isaac Asimov Short Story
73 The Available Data on the Worp Reaction Lion Miller Short Story
77 Imaginary Numbers in a Real Garden Gerald Jonas Poem
78 The Mathenauts Norman Kagan Short Story
90 Coffee Break D. F. Jones Short Story
100 Putzi Ludwig Bemelmans Short Story
105 All Things Come to Those Who Weight Robert Grossbach Short Story
111 Derm Fool Theodore Sturgeon Short Story
123 The Heart on the Other Side George Gamow Short Story
130 Blackmail Fred Hoyle Short Story
134 A Slight Miscalculation Ben Bova Short Story
142 A Subway Named Mobius A. J. Deutsch Short Story
156 A Sinister Metamorphosis Russell Baker Short Story
158 Something Up There Likes Me Alfred Bester Short Story
177 A Prize for Edie J. F. Bone Short Story
181 Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" Randall Garrett Poem
189 Neptune Sansoucy North Poem
190 Pluto Sansoucy North Poem
191 Jury-Rig Avram Davidson Short Story
200 Protection Robert Sheckley Short Story
209 The Self-Priming Solid-State Electronic Chicken Jon Lucas Short Story
222 The Night He Cried Fritz Leiber Short Story
228 The Big Pat Boom Damon Knight Short Story
234 The Adventure of the Solitary Engineer John M. Ford Short Story
244 Report on "Grand Central Terminal" Leo Szilard Short Story
249 Ad Astra, Al Mary W. Stanton Poem
250 They'll Do It Every Time Cam Thornley Short Story
252 No Homelike Place Dian Girard Short Story
257 Simworthy's Circus Larry T. Shaw Short Story
268 A Growing Concern Arnie Bateman Short Story
272 The Vilbar Party Evelyn E. Smith Short Story
280 A Pestilence of Psychoanalysts J. O. Jeppson Short Story
288 Death of a Foy Isaac Asimov Short Story
291 The One Thing Lacking Isaac Asimov Poem
293 The Merchant of Stratford Frank Ramirez Short Story
301 The Wheel of Time Robert Arthur Short Story
315 Quit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the Air Jack Finney Short Story
327 The Adventure of the Global Traveler or: The Global Consequences of How the Reichenbach Falls into the Wells of Iniquitie Anne Lear Short Story
334 Pebble in Time Avram Davidson & Cynthia Goldstone Short Story
338 Ahead of the Joneses Al Sarrantonio Short Story
341 The Pinch Hitters George Alec Effinger Short Story
350 Swift Completion Brad Cahoon Poem
357 A Skald's Lament L. Sprague de Camp Poem
358 The Stunning Science Fiction Caper Gerald Macdow Short Story
361 I, Claude Charles Beaumont & Chad Oliver Short Story
374 Out of Control Raylyn Moore Short Story
384 Slush K. J. Snow Short Story
390 An Unsolicited Submission Deborah Crawford Poem
391 Judo and the Art of Self-Government Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Short Story
398 Lulu Clifford D. Simak Novelette
432 The Splendid Source Richard Matheson Short Story
446 MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie C. M. Kornbluth Short Story
456 The Several Murders of Roger Ackroyd Barry Malzberg Short Story
461 The Critique of Impure Reason Poul Anderson Novelette
480 One Rejection Too Many Patricia Nurse Short Story
484 Bug-Getter R. Bretnor Short Story
487 The Last Gothic Jon L. Breen Short Story
494 A Benefactor of Humanity James T. Farrell Short Story
498 The Silver Eggheads (excerpt) Fritz Leiber Short Fiction
503 Adverbs E. Y. Harburg Poem
504 Dry Spell Bill Pronzini Short Story
509 The Odds-On Favorite E. Y. Harburg Poem
515 MS Fnd in a Lbry Hal Draper Short Story
xv Introduction (Laughing Space) Isaac Asimov Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Laughing Space Cover 1982 Robson Books Hardcover Anthology Deborah Taylor xvi+521
Laughing Space Cover 1982 Houghton Mifflin Hardcover Anthology xvi+521
Laughing Space Cover 1985 Robson Books Trade Paperback Anthology Deborah Taylor xvi+521