The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories is a science fiction anthology written and edited by Isaac Asimov (ISBN 0-385-12198-9). Following the usual form for Asimov collections, it consists of eleven short stories and a poem surrounded by commentary describing how each came to be written. The stories are as follows (original publication in parentheses):

  • "The Prime of Life" - poem (F&SF, October 1966)
  • "Feminine Intuition" (F&SF, October 1969)
  • "Waterclap" (Galaxy, May 1970)
  • "That Thou art Mindful of Him" (F&SF, May 1974)
  • "Stranger in Paradise" (If, May–June 1974)
  • "The Life and Times of Multivac" (New York Times Magazine, 5 January 1975)
  • "The Winnowing" (Analog, February 1976)
  • "The Bicentennial Man" (Judy-Lynn del Rey, ed., Stellar Science Fiction #2, February 1976)
  • "Marching In" (High Fidelity magazine, April 1976)
  • "Old-fashioned" (Bell Telephone Magazine, February 1976)
  • "The Tercentenary Incident" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1976)
  • "Birth of a Notion" (Amazing Stories, April 1976)

Two of the stories, "Feminine Intuition" and "The Bicentennial Man", were inspired by Judy-Lynn del Rey. The latter was expanded into a novel, The Positronic Man (with Robert Silverberg), which formed the basis of the 1999 Touchstone Pictures and Columbia Pictures film Bicentennial Man.

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
  • "The Prime of Life"
  • "Feminine Intuition"
  • "Waterclap"
  • ". . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him"
  • "Stranger in Paradise"
  • "The Life and Times of Multivac"
  • "The Winnowing"
  • "The Bicentennial Man"
  • "Marching In"
  • "Old-fashioned"
  • "The Tercentenary Incident"
  • "Birth of a Notion"
Science fiction short-story collections by Isaac Asimov
  • I, Robot (1950)
  • The Martian Way and Other Stories (1955)
  • Earth Is Room Enough (1957)
  • Nine Tomorrows (1959)
  • The Rest of the Robots (1964)
  • Through a Glass, Clearly (1967)
  • Nightfall and Other Stories (1969)
  • The Early Asimov (1972)
  • The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973)
  • Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975)
  • The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976)
  • The Complete Robot (1982)
  • The Winds of Change and Other Stories (1983)
  • The Alternate Asimovs (1986)
  • The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986)
  • Robot Dreams (1986)
  • Azazel (1988)
  • Robot Visions (1990)
  • Gold (1995)
  • Magic (1996)
List of short stories by Isaac Asimov

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