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First published in 1982 by editors Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/MartinHGreenberg. This GenreAnthology contains sixteen ScienceFiction stories that were first published in 1946, 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.
Because UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ended in September of 1945, this book covers the first year of peace. The introductions have been growing larger and larger, because individuals that had been drafted for the war effort are being released back to civilian lives. Many of these creators are taking inspiration from their time in service for innovations and inventions. "Automation" is [[{{Neologism}} coined]] by Delmar S. Herder, a portmanteau of "automatic operation". Depending on your view, this year begins or ends the GoldenAge, and ending means preparing the transition to NewWaveScienceFiction.
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!!Works in this anthology:
[[index]]
* "Literature/ALogicNamedJoe", by Creator/WillFJenkins
* "Literature/{{Memorial}}", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon
* "Literature/{{Loophole}}", by Creator/ArthurCClarke
* "Literature/TheNightmare", by Creator/ChanDavis
* "Literature/RescueParty", by Creator/ArthurCClarke
* "Literature/PlacetIsACrazyPlace", by Creator/FredricBrown
* "Literature/ConquerorsIsle", by Creator/NelsonSBond
* "Literature/LoreleiOfTheRedMist", by Creator/LeighBrackett and Creator/RayBradbury
* "Literature/TheMillionYearPicnic", by Creator/RayBradbury
* "Literature/TheLastObjective", by Creator/PaulACarter
* "Literature/MeihemInCeKlasrum", by Creator/DoltonEdwards
* "Literature/VintageSeason", by Creator/LawrenceODonnell
* "Literature/{{Evidence}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "Literature/{{Absalom}}", by Creator/HenryKuttner
* "Literature/MewhusJet", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon
* "Literature/TechnicalError", by Creator/ArthurCClarke
[[/index]]
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!!''Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 8 (1946)'' provides examples of:
* TheAlternet: "Literature/ALogicNamedJoe": Published by Creator/WillFJenkins, who usually used the PenName Creator/MurrayLeinster. Home computers called "logics" that were networked with each other and with "tanks" that contained the sum total of human knowledge. Logics also functioned as a television and VideoPhone, connecting people around the world.
* BabyPlanet: Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/PlacetIsACrazyPlace": The planet Placet is tiny, but with a breathable atmosphere because the core is made of extra-dense 'heavy' matter to give it its shape and gravity. It even has life forms made of heavy matter that "fly" through the crust (which is like air to them since they are so dense), causing earthquakes. It obviously suffers from the "what keeps the heavy matter from expanding" problem common to tiny dense planets, having been written in TheFourties. The buildings on Placet are small and light, and never last more than three weeks, because the birds fly right through the foundations.
* BinarySuns: Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/PlacetIsACrazyPlace": The planet Placet orbits two suns in a figure-eight. When it is between the suns, the human colonists experience visual hallucinations. This is only ''one'' of the reasons why it is considered crazy.
* {{Biography}}: Each story is prefaced by a short description of why this story (from this author) was chosen to represent one of the sixteen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Creator/IsaacAsimov's perspective.
* DrillTank: Creator/PaulACarter's "Literature/TheLastObjective": This ShortStory features very large subterrene drill tanks the size of oceangoing warships--"underground cruisers"--in a post-apocalyptic world in which the surface has been rendered uninhabitable by atomic bombs but the survivors continue to futilely battle it out underground.
* HomeworldEvacuation: Creator/ArthurCClarke's "Literature/RescueParty" has aliens coming to Earth in order to try saving at least a few humans before the Sun goes nova. In [[TwistEnding the end]], it turns out [[spoiler:the humans built a fleet and left already]].
* LanguageDrift: Creator/DoltonEdwards's "Literature/MeihemInCeKlasrum": Out of context, the last paragraphs are unintelligible gibberish. That's because the story [[InvokedTrope invokes]] spelling drift while you're reading. "[[ItMakesSenseInContext By 1975, wi ventyur tu sei, cer wud bi no mor uv ces teribli trublsum difikultis]]", because the context makes the structure of the words clear.
* OneWordTitle:
** "Literature/{{Absalom}}", by Creator/HenryKuttner
** "Literature/{{Evidence}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
** "Literature/{{Loophole}}", by Creator/ArthurCClarke
** "Literature/{{Memorial}}", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon
* PenName:
** The introduction to "Literature/ALogicNamedJoe" points out that readers of Creator/WillFJenkins might be more familiar with his pseudonym, Creator/MurrayLeinster.
** "Literature/VintageSeason" is credited to Creator/LawrenceODonnell, which is a pseudonym used by the writing team of Creator/HenryKuttner and Creator/CLMoore.
* ShoutOut: In the introduction, multiple works are mentioned as being first published or becoming hits in 1946:
** ''Literature/AdventuresInTimeAndSpace'', edited by Creator/JFrancisMcComas
** ''Literature/AllTheKingsMen'', by Creator/RobertPennWarren
** ''Theatre/AnnieGetYourGun'', by Creator/IrvingBerlin
** ''Theatre/AnotherPartOfTheForest'', by Creator/LillianHellman
** ''Literature/TheBestOfScienceFiction'', edited by Creator/GroffConklin
** ''Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives'', directed by Creator/WilliamWyler
** ''Literature/TheBigClock'', by Creator/KennethFearing
** ''Film/TheBigSleep''
** ''Theatre/BornYesterday'', by Creator/GarsonKanin
** Creator/MelBrooks is singled out as still using the name Melvin Kaminsky.
** ''Theatre/CallMeMister'', by Creator/HaroldRome
** "Music/TheChristmasSong"
** Creator/ArthurCClarke's first story, "Literature/{{Loophole}}"
** "Art/CowWithUmbrella", by Creator/MarcChagall
** ''Film/DuelInTheSun''
** Creator/EastmanKodak created Ektachrome color film for commercial purchase.
** ''Magazine/{{Fantasy}}'' is launched for the first time.
** "Art/FaunPlayingThePipe", by Creator/PabloPicasso
** ''Film/TheHarveyGirls''
** ''Theatre/TheIcemanCometh'', by Creator/EugeneONeill
** ''Film/TheKillers'', starring Creator/BurtLancaster
** "Music/LaVieEnRose"
** ''Literature/MemberOfTheWedding'', by Creator/CarsonMcCullers
** ''Magazine/NewWorlds'' is launched for the first time.
** ''Film/OpenCity'', directed by Creator/RobertoRossellini
** ''Film/ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice''
** ''Literature/TheSkylarkOfSpace'', by Creator/EEDocSmith
** ''Literature/{{Slan}}'', by Creator/AEVanVogt
** Creator/MargaretStClair's first story, "Literature/RockedToLimbo"
** Creator/WilliamTenn's first story, "Literature/AlexanderTheBait"
** ''Literature/TheTimeStream'', by Creator/JohnTaine
** "Music/ToEachHisOwn"
** ''Literature/ZorbaTheGreek'', by Creator/NikosKazantzakis
** Will-be famous ScienceFiction writers born this year were Creator/AlanDeanFoster, Creator/FPaulWilson, Creator/ChristopherFoss, Creator/RobertWeinberg, Creator/MarkGeston, Creator/EricSRabkin, Creator/RichardGlynJones, Creator/StevenGSpruill, and Creator/BruceMcAllister.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Literature/TheMillionYearPicnic" isn't given a hyphen on the title page, but it does appear with a hyphen (“The Million-Year Picnic") above the story pages.
* TwistEnding: Creator/ArthurCClarke's "Literature/RescueParty": The ending subverts a BigDamnHeroes moment, implying both that HumansAreSpecial and that HumansAreTheRealMonsters. While nothing exceptional for MilitaryScienceFiction, it's particularly jarring to see it in Clarke's context.
* WeirdSun: Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/PlacetIsACrazyPlace": Placet, the titular planet, has a lemniscate (figure-8) orbit around [[BinarySuns two suns]] -- one matter, one antimatter. This causes a shedload of weird effects
* {{Zeerust}}: "Literature/ALogicNamedJoe": Published by Creator/WillFJenkins, who usually used the PenName Creator/MurrayLeinster. This story was published in 1946, yet it revolves around a computer network [[TheAlternet strangely prophetic of the real-world Internet]], complete with online pornography and content filters. ''At that time, there were 6 working computers in the world.'' Although they have a very modern monitor-and-keyboard interface, the eponymous "logics" run on a combination of relay switches and "cold" vacuum tubes, and can literally [[OmniscientDatabase figure out anything]].
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Because UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ended in September of 1945, this book covers the first year of peace. The introductions have been growing larger and larger, because individuals that had been drafted for the war effort are being released back to civilian lives. Many of these creators are taking inspiration from their time in service for innovations and inventions. "Automation" is [[{{Neologism}} coined]] by Delmar S. Herder, a portmanteau of "automatic operation". Depending on your view, this year begins or ends the GoldenAge, and ending means preparing the transition to NewWaveScienceFiction.
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!!Works in this anthology:
[[index]]
* "Literature/ALogicNamedJoe", by Creator/WillFJenkins
* "Literature/{{Memorial}}", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon
* "Literature/{{Loophole}}", by Creator/ArthurCClarke
* "Literature/TheNightmare", by Creator/ChanDavis
* "Literature/RescueParty", by Creator/ArthurCClarke
* "Literature/PlacetIsACrazyPlace", by Creator/FredricBrown
* "Literature/ConquerorsIsle", by Creator/NelsonSBond
* "Literature/LoreleiOfTheRedMist", by Creator/LeighBrackett and Creator/RayBradbury
* "Literature/TheMillionYearPicnic", by Creator/RayBradbury
* "Literature/TheLastObjective", by Creator/PaulACarter
* "Literature/MeihemInCeKlasrum", by Creator/DoltonEdwards
* "Literature/VintageSeason", by Creator/LawrenceODonnell
* "Literature/{{Evidence}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* "Literature/{{Absalom}}", by Creator/HenryKuttner
* "Literature/MewhusJet", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon
* "Literature/TechnicalError", by Creator/ArthurCClarke
[[/index]]
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!!''Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 8 (1946)'' provides examples of:
* TheAlternet: "Literature/ALogicNamedJoe": Published by Creator/WillFJenkins, who usually used the PenName Creator/MurrayLeinster. Home computers called "logics" that were networked with each other and with "tanks" that contained the sum total of human knowledge. Logics also functioned as a television and VideoPhone, connecting people around the world.
* BabyPlanet: Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/PlacetIsACrazyPlace": The planet Placet is tiny, but with a breathable atmosphere because the core is made of extra-dense 'heavy' matter to give it its shape and gravity. It even has life forms made of heavy matter that "fly" through the crust (which is like air to them since they are so dense), causing earthquakes. It obviously suffers from the "what keeps the heavy matter from expanding" problem common to tiny dense planets, having been written in TheFourties. The buildings on Placet are small and light, and never last more than three weeks, because the birds fly right through the foundations.
* BinarySuns: Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/PlacetIsACrazyPlace": The planet Placet orbits two suns in a figure-eight. When it is between the suns, the human colonists experience visual hallucinations. This is only ''one'' of the reasons why it is considered crazy.
* {{Biography}}: Each story is prefaced by a short description of why this story (from this author) was chosen to represent one of the sixteen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Creator/IsaacAsimov's perspective.
* DrillTank: Creator/PaulACarter's "Literature/TheLastObjective": This ShortStory features very large subterrene drill tanks the size of oceangoing warships--"underground cruisers"--in a post-apocalyptic world in which the surface has been rendered uninhabitable by atomic bombs but the survivors continue to futilely battle it out underground.
* HomeworldEvacuation: Creator/ArthurCClarke's "Literature/RescueParty" has aliens coming to Earth in order to try saving at least a few humans before the Sun goes nova. In [[TwistEnding the end]], it turns out [[spoiler:the humans built a fleet and left already]].
* LanguageDrift: Creator/DoltonEdwards's "Literature/MeihemInCeKlasrum": Out of context, the last paragraphs are unintelligible gibberish. That's because the story [[InvokedTrope invokes]] spelling drift while you're reading. "[[ItMakesSenseInContext By 1975, wi ventyur tu sei, cer wud bi no mor uv ces teribli trublsum difikultis]]", because the context makes the structure of the words clear.
* OneWordTitle:
** "Literature/{{Absalom}}", by Creator/HenryKuttner
** "Literature/{{Evidence}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov
** "Literature/{{Loophole}}", by Creator/ArthurCClarke
** "Literature/{{Memorial}}", by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon
* PenName:
** The introduction to "Literature/ALogicNamedJoe" points out that readers of Creator/WillFJenkins might be more familiar with his pseudonym, Creator/MurrayLeinster.
** "Literature/VintageSeason" is credited to Creator/LawrenceODonnell, which is a pseudonym used by the writing team of Creator/HenryKuttner and Creator/CLMoore.
* ShoutOut: In the introduction, multiple works are mentioned as being first published or becoming hits in 1946:
** ''Literature/AdventuresInTimeAndSpace'', edited by Creator/JFrancisMcComas
** ''Literature/AllTheKingsMen'', by Creator/RobertPennWarren
** ''Theatre/AnnieGetYourGun'', by Creator/IrvingBerlin
** ''Theatre/AnotherPartOfTheForest'', by Creator/LillianHellman
** ''Literature/TheBestOfScienceFiction'', edited by Creator/GroffConklin
** ''Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives'', directed by Creator/WilliamWyler
** ''Literature/TheBigClock'', by Creator/KennethFearing
** ''Film/TheBigSleep''
** ''Theatre/BornYesterday'', by Creator/GarsonKanin
** Creator/MelBrooks is singled out as still using the name Melvin Kaminsky.
** ''Theatre/CallMeMister'', by Creator/HaroldRome
** "Music/TheChristmasSong"
** Creator/ArthurCClarke's first story, "Literature/{{Loophole}}"
** "Art/CowWithUmbrella", by Creator/MarcChagall
** ''Film/DuelInTheSun''
** Creator/EastmanKodak created Ektachrome color film for commercial purchase.
** ''Magazine/{{Fantasy}}'' is launched for the first time.
** "Art/FaunPlayingThePipe", by Creator/PabloPicasso
** ''Film/TheHarveyGirls''
** ''Theatre/TheIcemanCometh'', by Creator/EugeneONeill
** ''Film/TheKillers'', starring Creator/BurtLancaster
** "Music/LaVieEnRose"
** ''Literature/MemberOfTheWedding'', by Creator/CarsonMcCullers
** ''Magazine/NewWorlds'' is launched for the first time.
** ''Film/OpenCity'', directed by Creator/RobertoRossellini
** ''Film/ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice''
** ''Literature/TheSkylarkOfSpace'', by Creator/EEDocSmith
** ''Literature/{{Slan}}'', by Creator/AEVanVogt
** Creator/MargaretStClair's first story, "Literature/RockedToLimbo"
** Creator/WilliamTenn's first story, "Literature/AlexanderTheBait"
** ''Literature/TheTimeStream'', by Creator/JohnTaine
** "Music/ToEachHisOwn"
** ''Literature/ZorbaTheGreek'', by Creator/NikosKazantzakis
** Will-be famous ScienceFiction writers born this year were Creator/AlanDeanFoster, Creator/FPaulWilson, Creator/ChristopherFoss, Creator/RobertWeinberg, Creator/MarkGeston, Creator/EricSRabkin, Creator/RichardGlynJones, Creator/StevenGSpruill, and Creator/BruceMcAllister.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Literature/TheMillionYearPicnic" isn't given a hyphen on the title page, but it does appear with a hyphen (“The Million-Year Picnic") above the story pages.
* TwistEnding: Creator/ArthurCClarke's "Literature/RescueParty": The ending subverts a BigDamnHeroes moment, implying both that HumansAreSpecial and that HumansAreTheRealMonsters. While nothing exceptional for MilitaryScienceFiction, it's particularly jarring to see it in Clarke's context.
* WeirdSun: Creator/FredricBrown's "Literature/PlacetIsACrazyPlace": Placet, the titular planet, has a lemniscate (figure-8) orbit around [[BinarySuns two suns]] -- one matter, one antimatter. This causes a shedload of weird effects
* {{Zeerust}}: "Literature/ALogicNamedJoe": Published by Creator/WillFJenkins, who usually used the PenName Creator/MurrayLeinster. This story was published in 1946, yet it revolves around a computer network [[TheAlternet strangely prophetic of the real-world Internet]], complete with online pornography and content filters. ''At that time, there were 6 working computers in the world.'' Although they have a very modern monitor-and-keyboard interface, the eponymous "logics" run on a combination of relay switches and "cold" vacuum tubes, and can literally [[OmniscientDatabase figure out anything]].
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