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* DoingInTheWizard: In the [[TheAnnotatedEdition postscript]] to "Literature/SpellMyNameWithAnS", Dr Asimov {{Discusse|dTrope}}s the reason why he created the EnergyBeings at the end of the story. He decided that he hadn't explained where the numerologist and TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday came from, and since he wanted a ScienceFiction story rather than {{Fantasy}}, he made the numerologist into an alien that [[HumanDisguise pretended to be human]].
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* DoingInTheWizard: [[invoked]] In the [[TheAnnotatedEdition postscript]] to "Literature/SpellMyNameWithAnS", Dr Asimov {{Discusse|dTrope}}s the reason why he created the EnergyBeings at the end of the story. He decided that he hadn't explained where the numerologist and TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday came from, and since he wanted a ScienceFiction story rather than {{Fantasy}}, he made the numerologist into an alien that [[HumanDisguise pretended to be human]].
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* RealitySubtext: (DiscussedTrope) In both [[TheAnnotatedEdition preface and postscript]] of "Literature/LivingSpace", Dr Asimov explains the InspirationForTheWork was from his house-hunting. He finds it remarkable that while he had literally invented an infinite number of homes, he found a way to give his characters their own problems in house-hunting.
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* RealitySubtext: [[invoked]] (DiscussedTrope) In both [[TheAnnotatedEdition preface and postscript]] of "Literature/LivingSpace", Dr Asimov explains the InspirationForTheWork was from his house-hunting. He finds it remarkable that while he had literally invented an infinite number of homes, he found a way to give his characters their own problems in house-hunting.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: (DiscussedTrope) Dr Asimov points out in the [[TheAnnotatedEdition postscript]] of "Literature/TheLastQuestion" that he neglected to include UsefulNotes/BlackHoles in the story, and explains the absence was due to not hearing astronomers talking about them in 1956. He concludes that problems like that are why ScienceFiction stories will always lag behind science.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: (DiscussedTrope) [[invoked]](DiscussedTrope) Dr Asimov points out in the [[TheAnnotatedEdition postscript]] of "Literature/TheLastQuestion" that he neglected to include UsefulNotes/BlackHoles in the story, and explains the absence was due to not hearing astronomers talking about them in 1956. He concludes that problems like that are why ScienceFiction stories will always lag behind science.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: (DiscussedTrope) Dr Asimov points out in the [[TheAnnotatedEdition postscript]] of "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower" that when he wrote the story, in 1957, pocket computers didn't exist. The differences between the pocket computers he describes and the pocket computers we have is dismissed as "a detail".
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: (DiscussedTrope) [[invoked]](DiscussedTrope) Dr Asimov points out in the [[TheAnnotatedEdition postscript]] of "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower" that when he wrote the story, in 1957, pocket computers didn't exist. The differences between the pocket computers he describes and the pocket computers we have is dismissed as "a detail".
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* BestOfAnthology: Creator/IsaacAsimov selected his ten favourite stories for this collection in 1975.
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* InspirationForTheWork: Dr Asimov reveals the inspiration behind several of these stories:
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* InspirationForTheWork: [Invoked] Dr Asimov reveals the inspiration behind several of these stories:stories in the [[TheAnnotatedEdition annotations]]:
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In 1975, Creator/ListeningLibrary created an [[AudioAdaptation audiobook]] by recording Creator/IsaacAsimov reading [[{{Anthology}} ten of his stories]], along with a bit of [[TheAnnotatedEdition trivia for each]]. Every work here is, in some way, Dr Asimov's favourite. This collection can also be found by the name ''The Last Question and Other Stories''.
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In 1975, Creator/ListeningLibrary created an [[AudioAdaptation audiobook]] by recording Creator/IsaacAsimov reading [[{{Anthology}} ten of his stories]], along with a bit of [[TheAnnotatedEdition trivia for each]]. Every work here is, in some way, Dr Asimov's favourite. This collection can also be found by the name ''The Last Question and Other Stories''.Stories'' (and read by Creator/JimGallant instead).
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In 1975, Creator/ListeningLibrary created an [[AudioAdaptation audiobook]] by recording Creator/IsaacAsimov reading [[{{Anthology}} ten of his stories]], along with a bit of [[TheAnnotatedEdition trivia for each]]. Every work here is, in some way, Dr Asimov's favourite. This collection can also be found by the name ''The Last Question and Other Stories''.
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!!Works collected in ''Science Fiction Favorites'':
[[index]]
* "Literature/IJustMakeThemUpSee"
* "{{Literature/Someday}}"
* "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower"
* "Literature/LivingSpace"
* "Literature/SatisfactionGuaranteed"
* "Literature/TheLastQuestion"
* "{{Literature/Jokester}}"
* "Literature/TheImmortalBard"
* "Literature/SpellMyNameWithAnS"
* "Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy"
[[/index]]
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!!''Science Fiction Favorites'' provides examples of:
* TheAnnotatedEdition: Each story has a preface and a postscript where [[WordOfGod Dr Asimov comments with trivia]] about the related story. Most of the entries describe why Dr Asimov liked it so much, which usually involved a story about [Invoked] [[InspirationForTheWork what inspired the story]].
* AudioAdaptation: In addition to selecting which stories/poems would be included, Creator/IsaacAsimov also provided the narration for the entire book. The following stories were adapted into the audio format:
** "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower"
** "Literature/IJustMakeThemUpSee"
** "Literature/TheImmortalBard"
** "{{Literature/Jokester}}"
** "Literature/TheLastQuestion"
** "Literature/LivingSpace"
** "Literature/SatisfactionGuaranteed"
** "Literature/SpellMyNameWithAnS"
** "{{Literature/Someday}}"
** "Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy"
* BilledAboveTheTitle: The Creator/{{Audible}} cover places Dr Asimov's name at the top of the cover, with "ASIMOV" in font larger than the two lines of title combined.
* ColorContrast: The Creator/PenguinRandomHouse cover has a white top half with the title in large blocky black outlines and a black bottom half with the (faint) title in large blocky (dark) grey outlines. At the bottom of the cover, Creator/IsaacAsimov's name appears in small flowing white script.
* DeathOfTheAuthor: [Invoked] Dr Asimov [[WordOfGod explains]] in the postscript of "Literature/TheImmortalBard" that it was [[InspirationForTheWork inspired by]] the way people found [[{{Applicability}} various meanings and hidden elements]] in the stories that he didn't even realize was in there. Shakespeare failed the course on Shakespearean writing because Dr Asimov was certain that he'd do just as badly if he took a test based on his own stories.
* DoingInTheWizard: In the [[TheAnnotatedEdition postscript]] to "Literature/SpellMyNameWithAnS", Dr Asimov {{Discusse|dTrope}}s the reason why he created the EnergyBeings at the end of the story. He decided that he hadn't explained where the numerologist and TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday came from, and since he wanted a ScienceFiction story rather than {{Fantasy}}, he made the numerologist into an alien that [[HumanDisguise pretended to be human]].
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: In the introduction, Dr Asimov implies that literature's strength is their lack of physical description. Readers can [[MrImagination create their own version of how a character or a room looks]], something that would be dictated to them in a visual medium.
* GenreAnthology: Dr Asimov, in conjunction with Creator/ListeningLibrary, [[AudioAdaptation provides his voice]] for this ScienceFiction collection. The opening [[{{Poetry}} poem]] is the only non-genre entry.
* InspirationForTheWork: Dr Asimov reveals the inspiration behind several of these stories:
** In the [[TheAnnotatedEdition preface]] to "Literature/IJustMakeThemUpSee", Dr Asimov shares how he had a terrible day, so his solution was to write a funny [[{{Poetry}} poem]].
** In the [[TheAnnotatedEdition preface]] of "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower", Dr Asimov shares the faculty dinner where he suggested the CentralTheme to a colleague; "A time when people have forgotten arithmetic, and then someone discovers it again." Dr Asimov admits that after he got home, he called the colleague to say that he was going to write the story.
** In both [[TheAnnotatedEdition preface and postscript]] of "Literature/LivingSpace", Dr Asimov thinks the way an author's life influences their work is interesting. This story was written when he was trying to find a new home, and despite literally inventing an infinite number of homes, [[RealitySubtext he found a way]] to make people run out of living space.
** In the [[TheAnnotatedEdition preface]] of "{{Literature/Jokester}}", Dr Asimov says the inspiration came during lunch, when an editor gave him the DrivingQuestion; "I wonder where these jokes all come from? Who makes them up?"
* MinimalisticCoverArt:
** The Creator/{{Audible}} cover has a plain blue background, with a "book" inside where the title and author's name are in the same blue as the larger background. The background of the "book" is a red and yellow gradient.
** The Creator/PenguinRandomHouse cover is designed with [[ColorContrast black and white divisions]], where the top half is white with the title in large blocky black outlines and the bottom half is black with Creator/IsaacAsimov in small flowing white script.
* MrImagination: In the introduction, Dr Asimov explains the reason why books are better than movies and television is that they encourage the reader to create their own world of imagination, and each person's version of the story becomes very different.
--> "A story is what the writer says and what you imagine, together. So that you contribute to a book, more than you can possibly contribute to a television program." -- '''Creator/IsaacAsimov'''
* RealitySubtext: (DiscussedTrope) In both [[TheAnnotatedEdition preface and postscript]] of "Literature/LivingSpace", Dr Asimov explains the InspirationForTheWork was from his house-hunting. He finds it remarkable that while he had literally invented an infinite number of homes, he found a way to give his characters their own problems in house-hunting.
* RoboSpeak: When adapting "{{Literature/Someday}}", Dr Asimov chooses to include a haunting voice and reedy tone when voicing the Bard (a mechanical storytelling machine). This intonation is not clearly described in the text.
* ScienceMarchesOn: (DiscussedTrope) Dr Asimov points out in the [[TheAnnotatedEdition postscript]] of "Literature/TheLastQuestion" that he neglected to include UsefulNotes/BlackHoles in the story, and explains the absence was due to not hearing astronomers talking about them in 1956. He concludes that problems like that are why ScienceFiction stories will always lag behind science.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The Creator/PenguinRandomHouse cover spells Creator/IsaacAsimov's name as "Issac Asimov".
* TechnologyMarchesOn: (DiscussedTrope) Dr Asimov points out in the [[TheAnnotatedEdition postscript]] of "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower" that when he wrote the story, in 1957, pocket computers didn't exist. The differences between the pocket computers he describes and the pocket computers we have is dismissed as "a detail".
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!!Works collected in ''Science Fiction Favorites'':
[[index]]
* "Literature/IJustMakeThemUpSee"
* "{{Literature/Someday}}"
* "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower"
* "Literature/LivingSpace"
* "Literature/SatisfactionGuaranteed"
* "Literature/TheLastQuestion"
* "{{Literature/Jokester}}"
* "Literature/TheImmortalBard"
* "Literature/SpellMyNameWithAnS"
* "Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy"
[[/index]]
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!!''Science Fiction Favorites'' provides examples of:
* TheAnnotatedEdition: Each story has a preface and a postscript where [[WordOfGod Dr Asimov comments with trivia]] about the related story. Most of the entries describe why Dr Asimov liked it so much, which usually involved a story about [Invoked] [[InspirationForTheWork what inspired the story]].
* AudioAdaptation: In addition to selecting which stories/poems would be included, Creator/IsaacAsimov also provided the narration for the entire book. The following stories were adapted into the audio format:
** "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower"
** "Literature/IJustMakeThemUpSee"
** "Literature/TheImmortalBard"
** "{{Literature/Jokester}}"
** "Literature/TheLastQuestion"
** "Literature/LivingSpace"
** "Literature/SatisfactionGuaranteed"
** "Literature/SpellMyNameWithAnS"
** "{{Literature/Someday}}"
** "Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy"
* BilledAboveTheTitle: The Creator/{{Audible}} cover places Dr Asimov's name at the top of the cover, with "ASIMOV" in font larger than the two lines of title combined.
* ColorContrast: The Creator/PenguinRandomHouse cover has a white top half with the title in large blocky black outlines and a black bottom half with the (faint) title in large blocky (dark) grey outlines. At the bottom of the cover, Creator/IsaacAsimov's name appears in small flowing white script.
* DeathOfTheAuthor: [Invoked] Dr Asimov [[WordOfGod explains]] in the postscript of "Literature/TheImmortalBard" that it was [[InspirationForTheWork inspired by]] the way people found [[{{Applicability}} various meanings and hidden elements]] in the stories that he didn't even realize was in there. Shakespeare failed the course on Shakespearean writing because Dr Asimov was certain that he'd do just as badly if he took a test based on his own stories.
* DoingInTheWizard: In the [[TheAnnotatedEdition postscript]] to "Literature/SpellMyNameWithAnS", Dr Asimov {{Discusse|dTrope}}s the reason why he created the EnergyBeings at the end of the story. He decided that he hadn't explained where the numerologist and TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday came from, and since he wanted a ScienceFiction story rather than {{Fantasy}}, he made the numerologist into an alien that [[HumanDisguise pretended to be human]].
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: In the introduction, Dr Asimov implies that literature's strength is their lack of physical description. Readers can [[MrImagination create their own version of how a character or a room looks]], something that would be dictated to them in a visual medium.
* GenreAnthology: Dr Asimov, in conjunction with Creator/ListeningLibrary, [[AudioAdaptation provides his voice]] for this ScienceFiction collection. The opening [[{{Poetry}} poem]] is the only non-genre entry.
* InspirationForTheWork: Dr Asimov reveals the inspiration behind several of these stories:
** In the [[TheAnnotatedEdition preface]] to "Literature/IJustMakeThemUpSee", Dr Asimov shares how he had a terrible day, so his solution was to write a funny [[{{Poetry}} poem]].
** In the [[TheAnnotatedEdition preface]] of "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower", Dr Asimov shares the faculty dinner where he suggested the CentralTheme to a colleague; "A time when people have forgotten arithmetic, and then someone discovers it again." Dr Asimov admits that after he got home, he called the colleague to say that he was going to write the story.
** In both [[TheAnnotatedEdition preface and postscript]] of "Literature/LivingSpace", Dr Asimov thinks the way an author's life influences their work is interesting. This story was written when he was trying to find a new home, and despite literally inventing an infinite number of homes, [[RealitySubtext he found a way]] to make people run out of living space.
** In the [[TheAnnotatedEdition preface]] of "{{Literature/Jokester}}", Dr Asimov says the inspiration came during lunch, when an editor gave him the DrivingQuestion; "I wonder where these jokes all come from? Who makes them up?"
* MinimalisticCoverArt:
** The Creator/{{Audible}} cover has a plain blue background, with a "book" inside where the title and author's name are in the same blue as the larger background. The background of the "book" is a red and yellow gradient.
** The Creator/PenguinRandomHouse cover is designed with [[ColorContrast black and white divisions]], where the top half is white with the title in large blocky black outlines and the bottom half is black with Creator/IsaacAsimov in small flowing white script.
* MrImagination: In the introduction, Dr Asimov explains the reason why books are better than movies and television is that they encourage the reader to create their own world of imagination, and each person's version of the story becomes very different.
--> "A story is what the writer says and what you imagine, together. So that you contribute to a book, more than you can possibly contribute to a television program." -- '''Creator/IsaacAsimov'''
* RealitySubtext: (DiscussedTrope) In both [[TheAnnotatedEdition preface and postscript]] of "Literature/LivingSpace", Dr Asimov explains the InspirationForTheWork was from his house-hunting. He finds it remarkable that while he had literally invented an infinite number of homes, he found a way to give his characters their own problems in house-hunting.
* RoboSpeak: When adapting "{{Literature/Someday}}", Dr Asimov chooses to include a haunting voice and reedy tone when voicing the Bard (a mechanical storytelling machine). This intonation is not clearly described in the text.
* ScienceMarchesOn: (DiscussedTrope) Dr Asimov points out in the [[TheAnnotatedEdition postscript]] of "Literature/TheLastQuestion" that he neglected to include UsefulNotes/BlackHoles in the story, and explains the absence was due to not hearing astronomers talking about them in 1956. He concludes that problems like that are why ScienceFiction stories will always lag behind science.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The Creator/PenguinRandomHouse cover spells Creator/IsaacAsimov's name as "Issac Asimov".
* TechnologyMarchesOn: (DiscussedTrope) Dr Asimov points out in the [[TheAnnotatedEdition postscript]] of "Literature/TheFeelingOfPower" that when he wrote the story, in 1957, pocket computers didn't exist. The differences between the pocket computers he describes and the pocket computers we have is dismissed as "a detail".
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