Line #64 Literature/IsaacAsimovPresentsTheGreatScienceFictionStoriesVolume161954


1	First published in 1987 by editors Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/MartinHGreenberg. This GenreAnthology contains seventeen ScienceFiction stories that were first published in 1954, 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.
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4	!!Works in this anthology:
5	[[index]]
6	* "Literature/TheTest", by Creator/RichardMatheson
7	* "{{Literature/Anachron}}", by Creator/DamonKnight
8	* "Literature/BlackCharlie", by Creator/GordonRDickson
9	* "Literature/DownAmongTheDeadMen", by Creator/WilliamTenn
10	* "Literature/TheHuntingLodge", by Creator/RandallGarrett
11	* "Literature/TheLysenkoMaze", by Creator/DonaldAWollheim
12	* "Literature/FondlyFahrenheit", by Creator/AlfredBester
13	* "Literature/TheColdEquations", by Creator/TomGodwin
14	* "Literature/LettersFromLaura", by Creator/MildredClingerman
15	* "{{Literature/Transformer}}", by Creator/ChadOliver
16	* "Literature/TheMusicMasterOfBabylon", by Creator/EdgarPangborn
17	* "Literature/TheEndOfSummer", by Creator/AlgisBudrys
18	* "Literature/TheFatherThing", by Creator/PhilipKDick
19	* "Literature/TheDeepRange", by Creator/ArthurCClarke
20	* "{{Literature/Balaam}}", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher
21	* "Literature/ManOfParts", by Creator/HLGold
22	* "{{Literature/Answer}}", by Creator/FredricBrown
23	[[/index]]
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25	!!''Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 16 (1954)'' provides examples of:
26	* AIIsACrapshoot: Creator/AlfredBester's "Literature/FondlyFahrenheit": The android is usually obedient to the human owner, but it will occasionally turn murderous and thus force the two to flee again. [[spoiler:The attacks turn out to occur only on days above 90 degrees Fahrenheit because of a disorder in the android's glands. As for the murderous streak, it may just be killing those who Vandeleur ''wants'' it to kill.]]
27	* {{Biography}}: Each story is prefaced by a short description of why this story (from this author) was chosen to represent one of the seventeen best stories of the year along with a paragraph from Creator/IsaacAsimov's perspective.
28	* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Creator/FredricBrown's "{{Literature/Answer}}": All of humanity's computing power is connected up to make a single supercomputer capable of answering the question "Is there a God?" [[spoiler:Its answer is, "Yes, ''now'' there is."]]
29	* DeusEstMachina: Creator/FredricBrown's "{{Literature/Answer}}": All of humanity's computing power is connected up to make a single supercomputer capable of answering the question "Is there a God?" [[spoiler:Its answer is, "Yes, ''now'' there is."]]
30	* {{Epigraph}}: "Literature/TheLysenkoMaze", by Creator/DavidGrinnell, begins with a quote from Trofim Denisovich Lysenko.
31	-->''"By mastering these means,man can create forms that\
32	Did not and could not appear\
33	In nature even in millions of years.''
34	* AGodAmI: Creator/FredricBrown's "{{Literature/Answer}}": After every single computer in the galaxy linked together, the characters ask it to calculate the answer a single question: "Is there a God?" [[spoiler:The computer responds: "''Now'' there is."]]
35	* GoneHorriblyRight: Creator/FredricBrown's "{{Literature/Answer}}": The most powerful computer in history is built to answer the question, "Is there a God?" [[spoiler:The computer answers "Yes, now there is a God," and with a single lightning bolt kills the man who tries to turn it off and fuses its switch on.]]
36	* KarmaHoudini: Creator/AlfredBester's "Literature/FondlyFahrenheit": [[spoiler:Vandeleur gets away and gets a cheaper labor robot next, which may continue his murders.]]
37	* OneWordTitle:
38	** "{{Literature/Anachron}}", by Creator/DamonKnight
39	** "{{Literature/Answer}}", by Creator/FredricBrown
40	** "{{Literature/Balaam}}", by Creator/AnthonyBoucher
41	** "{{Literature/Transformer}}", by Creator/ChadOliver
42	* PenName: "Literature/TheLysenkoMaze" was first published under the name Creator/DavidGrinnell, a pseudonym used by Creator/DonaldAWollheim (mostly during the 1950s).
43	* ReplicantSnatching: Creator/PhilipKDick's "[[Literature/TheFatherThing The Father-Thing]]": When an alien takes the place of the protagonist's father, it eats his insides, leaving only a dry, dead skin behind.
44	* RoboticPsychopath: "Literature/FondlyFahrenheit" by Alfred Bester has a lot of confusion about whether the robot is a murderous maniac, or its owner, or both.
45	* ShoutOut: In the introduction, multiple works are mentioned as being first published or becoming hits in 1954:
46	** ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea''
47	** ''Film/TheAtomicKid''
48	** ''Literature/TheBigBallOfWax'', by Creator/ShepherdMead
49	** ''[[Literature/HelloSadness Bonjour Tristesse]]'', by Creator/FrancoiseSagan
50	** ''Film/TheBoweryBoysMeetTheMonsters''
51	** Creator/MelBrooks as no longer using the name Melvin Kaminsky.
52	** ''Theatre/CatOnAHotTinRoof'', by Creator/TennesseeWilliams (winning the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize for Drama)
53	** ''Magazine/CosmosScienceFictionAndFantasyMagazine'' collapsed this year.
54	** ''Film/TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''
55	** ''Film/{{Diabolique}}''
56	** ''Magazine/DynamicScienceFiction'' collapsed this year.
57	** ''Film/GogKillersFromSpace''
58	** "Music/HernandosHideaway"
59	** "Music/HeyThere"
60	** ''Literature/IAmLegend'', by Creator/RichardMatheson
61	** ''Magazine/ImaginativeTales'' began publishing this year.
62	** ''Literature/TheLongWayBack'', by Creator/MargoBennett
63	** ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'', by Creator/WilliamGoldberg
64	** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is mentioned for having published the first two volumes.
65	** ''Literature/LuckyJim'', by Creator/KingsleyAmis
66	** ''Literature/{{Messiah}}'', by Creator/GoreVidal
67	** ''Literature/AMirrorForObservers'', by Creator/EdgarPangborn
68	** ''Literature/MissionOfGravity'', by Creator/HalClement (the PenName of Harry Stubbs).
69	** "Music/MisterSandman"
70	** ''Film/MonstersFromTheOceanFloor''
71	** ''Theatre/NoTimeForSergeantsSeparateTables'', by Creator/MacHyman
72	** ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'', directed by Creator/EliaKazan (adapting the book by Creator/BuddSchulberg)
73	** ''Magazine/OrbitScienceFiction'' collapsed this year.
74	** ''Theatre/ThePajamaGame'', by Creator/RichardAdler and Creator/JerryRoss
75	** ''Film/RearWindow'', directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock
76	** "Art/TheRedRoofs", painted by Creator/MarcChargall
77	** ''Film/RidersToTheStars''
78	** ''Film/TheRocketMan''
79	** ''Literature/ShadowInTheSun'', by Creator/ChadOliver
80	** ''Film/TheSnowCreature''
81	** ''Literature/AStillnessAtAppomattox'', by Creator/BruceCatton
82	** ''Film/LaStrada'', directed by Creator/FredricoFellini
83	** "Art/{{Sylvette}}", painted by Creator/PabloPicasso
84	** ''Film/TargetEarth''
85	** ''Theatre/TheTeahouseOfTheAugustMoon'', by Creator/JohnPatrick
86	** ''Film/{{Them}}!''
87	** "Music/ThreeCoinsInTheFountain"
88	** ''Film/ToborTheGreat''
89	** ''Magazine/TwoCompleteScienceAdventureBooks'' collapsed this year.
90	** "Literature/TheWaking", by Creator/TheodoreRoethke, earned the the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize for {{Poetry}}
91	** ''Magazine/WeirdTales'' collapsed this year, having been publishing since 1923.
92	** "Music/YoungAtHeart"
93	* WhichMe: Creator/AlfredBester's "Literature/FondlyFahrenheit": A man and his [[RobotMe android duplicate]] are unable to tell each other apart, nor can they determine which of them is a murderer.

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