Introduction - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
The Waveries - short story by Fredric Brown
The Piper's Son - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
Wanted - An Enemy - short story by Fritz Leiber
Blind Alley - short story by Isaac Asimov
Correspondence Course - short story by Raymond F. Jones
First Contact - novelette by Murray Leinster
The Vanishing Venusians - novelette by Leigh Brackett
Into Thy Hands - short story by Lester del Rey
Camouflage - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
The Power - short story by Murray Leinster
Giant Killer - novella by A. Bertram Chandler
What You Need - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
A Logic Named Joe - short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
Memorial - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
Loophole - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
The Nightmare - novelette by Chan Davis
Rescue Party - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
Placet Is a Crazy Place - short story by Fredric Brown
Conquerors' Isle - short story by Nelson S. Bond
Lorelei of the Red Mist - novella by Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury
October 2026—The Million-Year Picnic - short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Million Year Picnic 1946)
The Last Objective - novelette by Paul A. Carter
Meihem in ce Klasrum - essay by Dolton Edwards
Vintage Season - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lawrence O'Donnell]
Evidence - novelette by Isaac Asimov
Technical Error - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942. During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948. He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46402W), was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards.
