Stories
- "I, Robot" by Eando Binder
- "The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton" by Robert Bloch
- "Trouble With Water" by Horace L. Gold
- "Cloak of Aesir" by Don A. Stuart
- "The Day is Done" by Lester del Rey
- "The Ultimate Catalyst" by John Taine
- "The Gnarly Man" by L. Sprague de Camp
- "Black Destroyer" by Alfred E. van Vogt
- "Greater Than Gods" by Catherine L. Moore
- "Trends" by Isaac Asimov
- "The Blue Giraffe" by L. Sprague De Camp
- "The Misguided Halo" by Henry Kuttner
- "Heavy Planet" by Milton A. Rothman
- "Life-Line" by Robert A. Heinlein
- "Ether Breather" by Theodore Sturgeon
- "Pilgrimage" by Nelson Bond
- "Rust" by Joseph E. Kelleam
- "The Four-Sided Triangle" by William F. Temple
- "Star Bright" by Jack Williamson
- "Misfit" by Robert A. Heinlein
Read more about this topic: Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 1 (1939)
Famous quotes containing the word stories:
“There have been many stories told about the bottom, or rather no bottom, of this pond, which certainly had no foundation for themselves. It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden into history, it is the stories we didn’t write, the questions we didn’t ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)