Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction
| First published | 1980 |
|---|---|
| Series | Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (anthologies) #4 |
| Publisher | The Dial Press |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Anthology |
| Pages | 284 |
| Price | $9.95 |
| ISBN | 0803741928 |
- Also credited as a Davis Publication. Hardcover reprint of the digest-sized Asimov Anthology #4, Fall-Winter 1980 edition.
- Stated FIRST PRINTING. [no date is printed]
- No printing number line in book.
- Copyright © 1980 by Davis Publications, Inc.
- From archive.org copy "Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-60795" on copyright page, but as of 2023-08-07 this points to a record for a pair of other Isaac Asimov's XXX anthologies edited by Scithers. A search of catalog.loc.gov finds this book associated with LCCN 81101251.
- "The Scientist As Villain" essay, pages 9 - 12, is actually titled "Editorial: The Scientist As Villain"
- The copyright notice and ToC entry for "On Man's Rôle in the Galaxy" does not have the carat over the 'o' in "Rôle" although it is there on the title page for the story.
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | The Scientist As Villain | Isaac Asimov | Essay |
| 13 | Gift of a Useless Man | Alan Dean Foster | Short Story |
| 26 | Mandalay | John M. Ford | Novelette |
| 55 | The Toroids of Dr. Klonefake | Martin Gardner | Short Story |
| 56 | The Tryouts | Barry B. Longyear | Short Story |
| 72 | A Growing Concern | Arnie Bateman | Short Story |
| 74 | Written in Sand | Robert Chilson | Short Story |
| 90 | The Man with the Eye | Phyllis Eisenstein | Short Story |
| 108 | As Chemist to Chemist | Isaac Asimov | Short Story |
| 113 | Bat Durston, Space Marshal | G. Richard Bozarth | Short Story |
| 120 | The Bitter End | Randall Garrett | Novelette |
| 156 | The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus | Gene Wolfe | Short Story |
| 167 | On Man's Rôle in the Galaxy | R. N. Bracewell | Essay |
| 174 | The Thaw | Tanith Lee | Novelette |
| 196 | Inevitability Sphere | Jeff Duntemann | Short Story |
| 205 | Scrap from the Notebooks of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | K. W. MacAnn | Short Story |
| 206 | Wolkenheim Fairday | Richard S. McEnroe | Novelette |
| 228 | Ker-Plop | Ted Reynolds | Novella |