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* CrapsackWorld: Even though we don't see it, TheFuture is implied to be this in "Literature/TheTwonky". Machines to eradicate independent thought are standard household items, and a time traveller is amazed to see that workers in the present have a home instead of sleeping in the factory.
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* ForWantOfANail: "Literature/ThePushOfAFinger" revolves around stopping a chance meeting of two persons that will result in the destruction of the Universe one thousand ears later.
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* UpliftedAnimal: In "Literature/TheStarMouse", a mouse sent into space in an experimental rocket is found by aliens that give him human-like intelligence and send him back.
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Greenberg apologizes for inaccurately advising readers of the previous book to read ''Literature/PastThroughTomorrow'', and instead suggests ''Literature/TheUnpleasentProfessionOfJonathanHoag'', ''Literature/OrphansOfTheSky'', and ''Literature/TheMenaceFromEarth''.
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Greenberg apologizes for inaccurately advising readers of the previous book to read ''Literature/PastThroughTomorrow'', ''Literature/ThePastThroughTomorrow'', and instead suggests ''Literature/TheUnpleasentProfessionOfJonathanHoag'', ''Literature/TheUnpleasantProfessionOfJonathanHoag'', ''Literature/OrphansOfTheSky'', and ''Literature/TheMenaceFromEarth''.
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* PrescienceByAnalysis: Creator/AlfredBester's
"Literature/ThePushOfAFinger": The computer in the Prog building (short for prognostication) supposedly creates its predictions based on accurate data fed into the machine. However, the machine is apparently able to [[SelfFulfillingProphesy take its own answers into account when making a prediction]].
"Literature/ThePushOfAFinger": The computer in the Prog building (short for prognostication) supposedly creates its predictions based on accurate data fed into the machine. However, the machine is apparently able to [[SelfFulfillingProphesy take its own answers into account when making a prediction]].
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* PrescienceByAnalysis: Creator/AlfredBester's
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First published in 1980 by editors Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/MartinHGreenberg. This GenreAnthology contains thirteen ScienceFiction stories that were first published in 1942, ranging in length from ShortStory to {{Novelette}}. The introduction describes "the world outside reality" first, marking significant historical events, sports trivia, and literary publications. The "real world" is the science fiction and fantasy pop culture, the birth of what many in the 1970s were calling the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
Greenberg apologizes for inaccurately advising readers of the previous book to read ''Literature/PastThroughTomorrow'', and instead suggests ''Literature/TheUnpleasentProfessionOfJonathanHoag'', ''Literature/OrphansOfTheSky'', and ''Literature/TheMenaceFromEarth''.
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!!Works in this anthology:
[[index]]
* "Literature/TheStarMouse", by Creator/FredricBrown
* "Literature/TheWingsOfNight", by Creator/LesterDelRey
* "Literature/CooperateOrElse", by Creator/AEVanVogt
* "[[Literature/TheEncyclopedists Foundation]]", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "Literature/ThePushOfAFinger", by Creator/AlfredBester
* "Literature/{{Asylum}}", by Creator/AEVanVogt
* "Literature/{{Proof}}", by Creator/HalClement
* "Literature/{{Nerves}}", by Creator/LesterDelRey
* "Literature/{{Barrier}}", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher
* "Literature/TheTwonky", by Creator/LewisPadgett
* "Literature/QRMInterplanetary", by Creator/GeorgeOSmith
* "Literature/TheWeaponShop", by Creator/AEVanVogt
* "Literature/{{Mimic}}", by Creator/DonaldAWollheim
[[/index]]
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!!''Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 4 (1942)'' provides examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Creator/AEVanVogt's "Literature/CooperateOrElse": Professor Jamieson misuses "bisexual" to mean "[[{{Hermaphrodite}} a species that can reproduce with any two members]]".
* BeneathTheEarth: Creator/LesterDelRey's "Literature/TheWingsOfNight": Lhin and the other {{Lunarian|s}} ancestors moved under the lunar surface many eons ago, when the moon's atmosphere evaporated away.
* {{Biography}}: Each story is prefaced by a short description of why this story (from this author) was chosen to represent one of the thirteen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Creator/IsaacAsimov's perspective.
* CentralTheme: Creator/LesterDelRey's "Literature/TheWingsOfNight": The title is a metaphor for bigotry and exploitation, and choosing to prize sapience, not race, is symbolized by the dawn of a new day.
* FunetikAksent: Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/TheStarMouse": Herr Professor Oberburger's dialogue is given with a heavy German accent because he comes from Vienna and Heidelberg. Naturally, Mitkey (the titular mouse) speaks in similarly phonetic speech due to learning English from him.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Creator/AEVanVogt's "Literature/CooperateOrElse": Professor Jamieson explains that one of the reason why he told the [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction Interstellar Military Comission]] that Eristan II was not usable for a military base is that the snakes here reach over a hundred feet long and has hundreds of babies in its lifetime. He also calls them bisexual, meaning that any two snakes can mate and produce offspring (which [[ArtisticLicenseBiology isn't what bisexual means]]).
* MostWritersAreWriters: Creator/AlfredBester's "Literature/ThePushOfAFinger": The CharacterNarrator telling this story is a newspaper reporter.
* OneWordTitle:
** "Literature/{{Asylum}}", by Creator/AEVanVogt
** "Literature/{{Barrier}}", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher
** "Literature/{{Mimic}}", by Creator/DonaldAWollheim
** "Literature/{{Nerves}}", by Creator/LesterDelRey
** "Literature/{{Proof}}", by Creator/HalClement
* PenName: "Literature/TheTwonky" is credited to Creator/LewisPadgett, a name used by the team of Creator/HenryKuttner and Creator/CLMoore when co-authoring a story.
* PrescienceByAnalysis: Creator/AlfredBester's
"Literature/ThePushOfAFinger": The computer in the Prog building (short for prognostication) supposedly creates its predictions based on accurate data fed into the machine. However, the machine is apparently able to [[SelfFulfillingProphesy take its own answers into account when making a prediction]].
* ShoutOut: In the introduction, multiple works are mentioned as being first published or becoming hits in 1942:
** "Literature/BeyondThisHorizon", by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (under the name Creator/AnsonMacDonald).
** Literature/LEtranger'', by Creator/AlbertCamus
** "{{Literature/Heritage}}", by RobertAbernathy
** ''Film/HolidayInnAndMrsMiniver''
** ''Film/HowGreenWasMyValley''
** ''Music/LincolnPortrait'', by Creator/AaronCopland
** ''Literature/LittleGidding'', by Creator/TSEliot
** ''Literature/TheManagerialRevolution'', by Creator/JamesBurnham
** Creator/MelBrooks is singled out as still using the name Melvin Kaminsky.
** ''Literature/TheMoonIsDown'', by Creator/JohnSteinbeck
** "Literature/{{Proof}}", which is also included as one of the best stories in this GenreAnthology.
** "Literature/QRMInterplanetary", which is included as one of the best stories in this GenreAnthology.
** "Art/RedLandscape", painted by Creator/GrahamSutherland
** ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'', by Creator/CSLewis
** ''Music/SeventhSymphony'', by Creator/DmitriShostakovich
** ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' stops publishing new issues
** "Art/WindsorCastle" is painted by Creator/JohnPiper
** Creator/CJCherryh, Creator/SamuelRDelany, Creator/LangdonJones, Creator/DavidKetterer, Creator/FranzRottensteiner, Creator/DouglasTrumball, Creator/WilliamJoeWatkins, and Creator/ChelseaQuinnYarbro are singled out for being born this year.
** Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/TheStarMouse": The two mice captured by Herr Professor are named WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse, after Creator/WaltDisney's famous creations.
* TelepathicSpacemen:
** Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/TheStarMouse": The Prxlians, despite being only half an inch tall, are capable of telepathic communication and are much more intelligent than human beings.
** Creator/LesterDelRey's "Literature/TheWingsOfNight": The {{Lunarians}} once considered speech to be evidence of intelligence, but by the time of Lhin, they were able to communicate mind-to-mind. Lhin is luckily able to read human minds and learn English from them, because they aren't able to reciprocate.
** Creator/AEVanVogt's "Literature/CooperateOrElse": The ezwal from Carson's Planet is known to be capable of reading Jamieson's thoughts, as well as transmitting its own thoughts directly to his mind.
* VitriolicBestBuds: In the introduction to "Literature/TheWingsOfNight", Creator/IsaacAsimov claims that he and Creator/LesterDelRey always greet each other insultingly in public, but when alone they are congenial and verbose.
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Greenberg apologizes for inaccurately advising readers of the previous book to read ''Literature/PastThroughTomorrow'', and instead suggests ''Literature/TheUnpleasentProfessionOfJonathanHoag'', ''Literature/OrphansOfTheSky'', and ''Literature/TheMenaceFromEarth''.
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!!Works in this anthology:
[[index]]
* "Literature/TheStarMouse", by Creator/FredricBrown
* "Literature/TheWingsOfNight", by Creator/LesterDelRey
* "Literature/CooperateOrElse", by Creator/AEVanVogt
* "[[Literature/TheEncyclopedists Foundation]]", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "Literature/ThePushOfAFinger", by Creator/AlfredBester
* "Literature/{{Asylum}}", by Creator/AEVanVogt
* "Literature/{{Proof}}", by Creator/HalClement
* "Literature/{{Nerves}}", by Creator/LesterDelRey
* "Literature/{{Barrier}}", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher
* "Literature/TheTwonky", by Creator/LewisPadgett
* "Literature/QRMInterplanetary", by Creator/GeorgeOSmith
* "Literature/TheWeaponShop", by Creator/AEVanVogt
* "Literature/{{Mimic}}", by Creator/DonaldAWollheim
[[/index]]
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!!''Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 4 (1942)'' provides examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Creator/AEVanVogt's "Literature/CooperateOrElse": Professor Jamieson misuses "bisexual" to mean "[[{{Hermaphrodite}} a species that can reproduce with any two members]]".
* BeneathTheEarth: Creator/LesterDelRey's "Literature/TheWingsOfNight": Lhin and the other {{Lunarian|s}} ancestors moved under the lunar surface many eons ago, when the moon's atmosphere evaporated away.
* {{Biography}}: Each story is prefaced by a short description of why this story (from this author) was chosen to represent one of the thirteen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Creator/IsaacAsimov's perspective.
* CentralTheme: Creator/LesterDelRey's "Literature/TheWingsOfNight": The title is a metaphor for bigotry and exploitation, and choosing to prize sapience, not race, is symbolized by the dawn of a new day.
* FunetikAksent: Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/TheStarMouse": Herr Professor Oberburger's dialogue is given with a heavy German accent because he comes from Vienna and Heidelberg. Naturally, Mitkey (the titular mouse) speaks in similarly phonetic speech due to learning English from him.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Creator/AEVanVogt's "Literature/CooperateOrElse": Professor Jamieson explains that one of the reason why he told the [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction Interstellar Military Comission]] that Eristan II was not usable for a military base is that the snakes here reach over a hundred feet long and has hundreds of babies in its lifetime. He also calls them bisexual, meaning that any two snakes can mate and produce offspring (which [[ArtisticLicenseBiology isn't what bisexual means]]).
* MostWritersAreWriters: Creator/AlfredBester's "Literature/ThePushOfAFinger": The CharacterNarrator telling this story is a newspaper reporter.
* OneWordTitle:
** "Literature/{{Asylum}}", by Creator/AEVanVogt
** "Literature/{{Barrier}}", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher
** "Literature/{{Mimic}}", by Creator/DonaldAWollheim
** "Literature/{{Nerves}}", by Creator/LesterDelRey
** "Literature/{{Proof}}", by Creator/HalClement
* PenName: "Literature/TheTwonky" is credited to Creator/LewisPadgett, a name used by the team of Creator/HenryKuttner and Creator/CLMoore when co-authoring a story.
* PrescienceByAnalysis: Creator/AlfredBester's
"Literature/ThePushOfAFinger": The computer in the Prog building (short for prognostication) supposedly creates its predictions based on accurate data fed into the machine. However, the machine is apparently able to [[SelfFulfillingProphesy take its own answers into account when making a prediction]].
* ShoutOut: In the introduction, multiple works are mentioned as being first published or becoming hits in 1942:
** "Literature/BeyondThisHorizon", by Creator/RobertAHeinlein (under the name Creator/AnsonMacDonald).
** Literature/LEtranger'', by Creator/AlbertCamus
** "{{Literature/Heritage}}", by RobertAbernathy
** ''Film/HolidayInnAndMrsMiniver''
** ''Film/HowGreenWasMyValley''
** ''Music/LincolnPortrait'', by Creator/AaronCopland
** ''Literature/LittleGidding'', by Creator/TSEliot
** ''Literature/TheManagerialRevolution'', by Creator/JamesBurnham
** Creator/MelBrooks is singled out as still using the name Melvin Kaminsky.
** ''Literature/TheMoonIsDown'', by Creator/JohnSteinbeck
** "Literature/{{Proof}}", which is also included as one of the best stories in this GenreAnthology.
** "Literature/QRMInterplanetary", which is included as one of the best stories in this GenreAnthology.
** "Art/RedLandscape", painted by Creator/GrahamSutherland
** ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'', by Creator/CSLewis
** ''Music/SeventhSymphony'', by Creator/DmitriShostakovich
** ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' stops publishing new issues
** "Art/WindsorCastle" is painted by Creator/JohnPiper
** Creator/CJCherryh, Creator/SamuelRDelany, Creator/LangdonJones, Creator/DavidKetterer, Creator/FranzRottensteiner, Creator/DouglasTrumball, Creator/WilliamJoeWatkins, and Creator/ChelseaQuinnYarbro are singled out for being born this year.
** Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/TheStarMouse": The two mice captured by Herr Professor are named WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse, after Creator/WaltDisney's famous creations.
* TelepathicSpacemen:
** Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/TheStarMouse": The Prxlians, despite being only half an inch tall, are capable of telepathic communication and are much more intelligent than human beings.
** Creator/LesterDelRey's "Literature/TheWingsOfNight": The {{Lunarians}} once considered speech to be evidence of intelligence, but by the time of Lhin, they were able to communicate mind-to-mind. Lhin is luckily able to read human minds and learn English from them, because they aren't able to reciprocate.
** Creator/AEVanVogt's "Literature/CooperateOrElse": The ezwal from Carson's Planet is known to be capable of reading Jamieson's thoughts, as well as transmitting its own thoughts directly to his mind.
* VitriolicBestBuds: In the introduction to "Literature/TheWingsOfNight", Creator/IsaacAsimov claims that he and Creator/LesterDelRey always greet each other insultingly in public, but when alone they are congenial and verbose.
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