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A collection of 50 Asimov stories, covering half a century of his work, including tales of distant worlds, parallel universes, unknowable aliens and immeasurable space. Among this collection are "Nightfall", "The Martian Way" and "The Ugly Boy". Contains: Marooned off Vesta Robbie Nightfall Runaround Death sentence Catch that rabbit Blind alley Evidence Little lost robot No connection The Red Queen's race Green patches Breeds there a man ...? The Martian way Sally The Fun they had Franchise The Last question Profession The Ugly little boy Unto the fourth generation Thiotimoline and the space age The Machine that won the war My son, the physicist T-formation Author! Author! Eyes do more than see The Key The Billiard ball Exile to hell Feminine intuition A Problem of numbers Bill and I Mirror image Light verse That thou art mindful of him Earthset and evening star The Bicentennial man True love Found Nothing for nothing For the birds Ignition point Lest we remember Saving humanity Neither brute nor human The Fourth homonym The Eye of the beholder The Quiet place I love little Pussy

The Martians is a companion volume to the three volumes of the Mars trilogy, published in 1999. It is a short story collection, consisting of stories, poems, in-universe article excerpts, essays, and even meta/autobiographical stories ("Purple Mars"). Some of the stories were published before. Some stories do not take place in the same universe as the Mars trilogy; some others, while they share the same characters, are evidently alternate timelines to the trilogy. It consists of the following stories: Michel In Antarctica Exploring Fossil Canyon The Archaea Plot The Way The Land Spoke To Us Maya And Desmond Four Teleological Trails Discovering Life Coyote Makes Trouble Michel In Provence Green Mars Arthur Sternbach Brings The Curveball To Mars Salt and Fresh The Constitution Of Mars Some Worknotes And Commentary On The Constitution, by Charlotte Dorsa Brevia Jackie On Zo Keeping The Flame Saving Noctis Dam Big Man In Love An Argument For The Deployment Of All Safe Terraforming Technologies Selected Abstracts From The Journal Of Areological Studies Odessa Sexual Dimorphism Enough Is As Good As A Feast What Matters Coyote Remembers Sax Moments The Names Of The Canals The Soundtrack A Martian Romance If Wang Wei Lived On Mars And Other Poems Purple Mars

An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix," his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats.Human colonists seeking something other than godhood encounter their long-lost "cousins"...and an ancient scourge.A devastated man in suicide's embrace is caught up in a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with a young woman possessing a world-ending power.The distant descendants of a once-oppressed people learn a chilling lesson about the persistence of the past.A terrifying ascent up the frigid, snow-swept slopes of K2 shatters preconceptions and reveals the true natures of four climbers, one of whom is not human.At the intersection of a grand past and a threadbare present, an aging American in Russia confronts his own mortality as he glimpses a wondrous future.

An anthology of short science fiction stories by Asimov that includes everything *but* robot stories. All the Troubles of the World A Loint of Paw The Dead Past Death of a Foy Dreaming Is a Private Thing Dreamworld Eyes Do More Than See The Feeling of Power Flies Found! The Foundation of Science Fiction Success Franchise The Fun They Had How It Happened I Just Make Them Up, See! I'm in Marsport Without Hilda The Immortal Bard It's Such a Beautiful Day Jokester The Last Answer The Last Question My Son, the Physicist! Obituary Spell My Name with an S Strikebreaker Sure Thing The Ugly Little Boy Unto the Fourth Generation