Laughing Space
A Fuller Explanation of Original Sin - poem by Isaac Asimov and Janet Asimov [as by Isaac Asimov and Janet O. Jeppson]
Et Tu - poem by John Stallings
Creation - poem by L. Sprague de Camp
Stag Night, Paleolithic - poem by Ogden Nash
An Epicurean Fragment - poem by Robert Hillyer
Spaced Out - short story by Russell Baker
The Coffin Cure - short story by Alan E. Nourse
Silenzia - short story by Alan Nelson
The Agony of Defeat - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
Epitaph on Rigel XII - poem by Sherwood Springer
Epitaph on Ceres - poem by Sherwood Springer
The Snowball Effect - short story by Katherine MacLean
Pâté de Foie Gras - short story by Isaac Asimov
The Available Data on the Worp Reaction - short story by Lion Miller
Imaginary Numbers in a Real Garden - poem by Gerald Jonas
The Mathenauts - short story by Norman Kagan
Coffee Break - short story by D. F. Jones
Putzi - short story by Ludwig Bemelmans
All Things Come to Those Who Weight - short story by Robert Grossbach
Derm Fool - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
The Heart on the Other Side - short story by George Gamow
Blackmail - short story by Fred Hoyle
A Slight Miscalculation - short story by Ben Bova
A Subway Named Mobius - short story by A. J. Deutsch
A Sinister Metamorphosis - short story by Russell Baker
Something Up There Likes Me - short story by Alfred Bester
A Prize for Edie - short story by J. F. Bone
Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" - poem by Randall Garrett (variant of Parodies Tossed: Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" 1956)
Neptune - poem by Sansoucy Kathenor [as by Sansoucy North]
Pluto - poem by Sansoucy Kathenor [as by Sansoucy North]
Jury-Rig - short story by Avram Davidson
Protection - short story by Robert Sheckley
The Self-Priming Solid-State Electronic Chicken - short story by Jon Lucas (variant of The Self-Priming, Solid-State Electronic Chicken)
The Night He Cried - short story by Fritz Leiber
The Big Pat Boom - short story by Damon Knight
The Adventure of the Solitary Engineer - short story by John M. Ford
Report on "Grand Central Terminal" - short story by Leo Szilard
Ad Astra, Al - poem by Mary W. Stanton
They'll Do It Every Time - short story by Cam Thornley
No Homelike Place - short story by Dian Girard (variant of No Home-Like Place)
Simworthy's Circus - short story by Larry T. Shaw
A Growing Concern - short story by Arnie Bateman
The Vilbar Party - short story by Evelyn E. Smith
A Pestilence of Psychoanalysts - short story by Janet Asimov [as by J. O. Jeppson]
Death of a Foy - short story by Isaac Asimov
The One Thing Lacking - poem by Isaac Asimov
The Merchant of Stratford - short story by Frank Ramirez
The Wheel of Time - short story by Robert Arthur
Quit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the Air - short story by Jack Finney
The Adventure of the Global Traveler or: The Global Consequences of How the Reichenbach Falls into the Wells of Iniquitie - short story by Anne Lear
Pebble in Time - short story by Avram Davidson and Cynthia Goldstone
Ahead of the Joneses - short story by Al Sarrantonio
The Pinch Hitters - short story by George Alec Effinger (variant of The Pinch-Hitters)
Swift Completion - poem by Brad Cahoon
A Skald's Lament - poem by L. Sprague de Camp
The Stunning Science Fiction Caper - short story by Thomas N. Scortia [as by Gerald Macdow]
I, Claude - short story by Charles Beaumont and Chad Oliver
Out of Control - short story by Raylyn Moore
Slush - short story by K. J. Snow
An Unsolicited Submission - poem by Deborah Crawford
Judo and the Art of Self-Government - short story by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
Lulu - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
The Splendid Source - short story by Richard Matheson
MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie - short story by C. M. Kornbluth
The Several Murders of Roger Ackroyd - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
The Critique of Impure Reason - novelette by Poul Anderson
One Rejection Too Many - short story by Patricia Nurse
Bug-Getter - short story by Reginald Bretnor [as by R. Bretnor]
The Last Gothic - short story by Jon L. Breen
A Benefactor of Humanity - short story by James T. Farrell
The Silver Eggheads (Excerpt) - short fiction by Fritz Leiber
Adverbs - poem by E. Y. Harburg
Dry Spell - short story by Bill Pronzini
The Odds-On Favorite - poem by E. Y. Harburg
MS Fnd in a Lbry - short story by Hal Draper
American Science fiction, Pictorial American wit and humor, American wit and humor, Literature, American wit and humor, pictorial
Isaac Asimov, Janet Asimov, John Stallings, L. Sprague De Camp, Ogden Nash, Robert Hillyer, Russell Baker, Alan Edward Nourse, Alan Nelson, Jack C. Haldeman, Sherwood Springer, Katherine MacLean, Lion Miller, Gerald Jonas, Norman Kagan, D. F. Jones, Ludwig Bemelmans, Robert Grossbach, Theodore Sturgeon, George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, Ben Bova, A. J. Deutsch , Alfred Bester, Jesse F. Bone, Randall Garrett, Sansoucy Kathenor, Avram Davidson, Robert Sheckley, Jon Lucas, Fritz Leiber, Damon Knight, John M. Ford, Leo Szilard, Mary W. Stanton, Cam Thornley, Dian Girard, Larry T. Shaw, Arnie Bateman, Evelyn E. Smith, Frank Ramirez, Robert Arthur, Jack Finney, Anne Lear, Cynthia Goldstone, Al Sarrantonio, George Alec Effinger, Brad Cahoon, Thomas N. Scortia, Charles Beaumont, Chad Oliver, Raylyn Moore, K. J. Snow, Deborah Crawford, Kevin O'Donnell, Jr, Clifford D. Simak, Richard Matheson, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Patricia Nurse, Reginald Bretnor, Jon L. Breen, James T. Farrell, E. Y. Harburg, Bill Pronzini, Hal Draper
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. || Lyon Sprague de Camp — known as L. Sprague de Camp — was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction and biography. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, including biographies of other fantasy authors. - Wikipedia || Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times "the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry." *Wikipedia* || American writer and physician || science fiction writer || Jack Carroll "Jay" Haldeman II (December 18, 1941 – January 1, 2002) was an American biologist and science-fiction writer. He was the older brother of SF writer and MIT writing professor Joe Haldeman. || Ludwig Bemelmans was a German American author, an internationally known gourmet and also a writer and illustrator of children's books. He is most famous today for the series of Madeline books.
-- Wikipedia || Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York.  He changed his name in 1929, choosing Sturgeon to match his mother's surname after her second marriage, and "Theodore" to match his nickname, "Teddy."  His mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry and fiction under the pseudonym Felix Sturgeon.

As an adolescent, Sturgeon wanted to be a circus acrobat, but then had an episode of rheumatic fever.  From 1935 to 1938, he was a sailor in the merchant marine. He sold his first story in 1938, and his first science fiction story, "Ether Breather" was published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939.  A few of his early pulp stories were published under the pseudonym "E. Waldo Hunter."  

He married his first wife, Dorothe Fillingame, in 1940.  That year, they moved to the West Indies, where Sturgeon managed a hotel for about a year.  He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and in 1944 he returned to the U.S. and worked as an advertising copywriter.  He divorced in 1945, and married singer Mary Mair in 1949 until an annulment in 1951.  In 1950, he published his first novel, The Dreaming Jewels.  In 1951, he married Marion McGahan and they had a son in 1952, a daughters in 1954, a daughter in 1956, and a son in 1960.  In 1963, he ghost-wrote the Ellery Queen mystery novel The Player on the Other Side, which received critical praise.  He wrote two screenplays for the television show Star Trek in 1966 and 1967, and one screenplay for the show Land of the Lost in 1975, and two of his stories were adapted for The New Twilight Zone.  At the height of his popularity in the 1950s he was the most anthologized author alive.

His last long-term committed relationship was with writer and educator Jayne Engelhart Tannehill, with whom he remained until the time of his death.  He died in May of 1985 of lung fibrosis, in Eugene, Oregon. || Sir Fred Hoyle was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and was one of the authors of the influential B2FH paper. He also held controversial stances on other scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory (a term coined by him on BBC Radio) in favor of the "steady-state model", and his promotion of panspermia as the origin of life on Earth. He spent most of his working life at St John's College, Cambridge and served as the founding director of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at Cambridge.

Hoyle also wrote science fiction novels, short stories and radio plays, co-created television serials, and co-authored twelve books with his son, Geoffrey Hoyle. || Benjamin William Bova is an American science-fiction author and editor.

Bova has drawn on his experiences to create fact and fiction writings rich with references to spaceflight, lasers, artificial hearts, nanotechnology, environmentalism, fencing and martial arts, photography and artists.

As of 2010 Bova has written over 115 books - non-fiction as well as science fiction. In 2000, he attended the 58th World Science Fiction Convention (Chicon 2000) as the Author Guest of Honor.

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  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bova || Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. Though successful in all these fields, he is best remembered for his science fiction, including The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953. - Wikipedia || Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. Garrett is best known for the Lord Darcy books, the novel Too Many Magicians and two short story collections.

He was also an inveterate punster (defining a pun as "the odor given off by a decaying mind"), he was a favorite guest at science fiction convention.

Source: wikipedia || Avram Davidson was born in Yonkers, New York.  He was educated in public schools, then studied anthropology at New York University before joining the U.S. Navy in 1942.   He served as a hospital corpsman (medic), first with the Naval Air Corps, and then with the Fifth Marines.  After the war, he travelled in England, Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean before returning the the U.S. to resume his education.  He continued his education at several schools, but never earned a degree.  In 1950 he returned to the U.S. to study at an agricultural school, then went to Israel to become a shepherd.  He returned to New York City shortly after and began his writing career as a Talmudic scholar, publishing short stories and several essays in Orthodox Jewish Life beginning in 1949 and in Commentary beginning in 1952, under the name A. A. Davidson.  He was very active in the Orthodox Jewish community in New York City during this period.  His first published science fiction story, "My Boy Friend's Name is Jello," appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1954.  In 1961 he met Grania Kaiman, and they were married in early 1962, and had a son in November 1962.  He became editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction from 1962-1965.  In 1963 he and his family moved to Milford, Pennsylvania, but had several disagreements with their landlord which resulted in them being evicted, so they moved to Amecameca, Mexico.  In June 1964, Grania moved back to California, while Avram stayed in Mexico with their son.  In 1965, he relocated to British Honduras (now Belize), then to California in 1970, where he began to study and then converted to Tenrikyo, a panentheist Japanese New Religion.  In 1971 he moved to Sausalito, California, close to San Francisco.  In his later years, he lived in Bremerton, Washington, where he died in 1993, aged 70.

Over the course of his writing career, he wrote 20 novels and collaborated on several more, but he was best known for his short science fiction stories.  He was recognized with a Hugo Award, a World Fantasy Award (including the prestigious Life Achievement Award), and an Edgar Award.  He was survived by his his ex-wife Grania Davis, who continues to edit and release his unpublished works. || Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.

Nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards, Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. || Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having coined the term. 

**Source**: [Fritz Leiber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Leiber) on Wikipedia. || Damon Knight was born in Baker City, Oregon.  He graduated from the WPA Art Center in Salem, Oregon, then moved to New York City.  His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941.  In 1943 he went into publishing, first with Popular Publications, then editing Beyond in 1950-51 and If in 1959-60.  He became a science fiction critic in 1945, but gave that up in 1954.  In 1956 he co-founded the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference.  Also in 1956, he received the Hugo Award for science fiction criticism.  In 1965, he founded and became the first president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.  He published his last book, Will the Real Hieronymus Bosch Please Stand Up? on the internet in 2000.  He lived in Eugene, Oregon, United States, with his wife Kate Wilhelm, also a science fiction writer. || John Milo "Mike" Ford (April 10, 1957 – September 25, 2006) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet.

A contributor to several online discussions, Ford composed poems, often improvised, in both complicated forms and blank verse; he also wrote pastiches and parodies of many other authors and styles. At Minicon and other science fiction conventions he would perform "Ask Dr. Mike", giving humorous answers to scientific and other questions in a lab coat before a whiteboard. || American editor and author || Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney, October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including *The Body Snatchers* and *Time and Again*. The former was the basis for the 1956 film *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* and its remakes.

**Source**: [Jack Finney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Finney) on Wikipedia. || George Alec Effinger was an American science fiction author. || Thomas Nicholas Scortia was born in Alton, Illinois. In 1949, he received a degree in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis. He went on to work for a number of aerospace companies, while writing in his spare time. In the early 1970s, he left his job to write full-time. He died of leukemia in California in 1986. || Symmes Chadwick Oliver || Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award.The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master,[4] and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.[5] He is associated with the pastoral science fiction subgenre. || Richard Matheson was born in Allendale, New Jersey, the son of Norwegian immigrant parents.  He was raised in Brooklyn and started writing at age eight.  He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1943.  He served as an infantry soldier in World War II.   He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1949.  His first short story, "Born of Man and Woman," appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1950.  Between 1950 and 1971, he wrote dozens of stories, frequently blending elements of science fiction, horror and fantasy.  In 1951 he moved to California and became a screenwriter, writing episodes for The Twilight Zone, Lawman, and Star Trek, and screenplays for horror movies such as The Devil Rides Out and Steven Spielberg's Duel.  During the 1950s he published a handful of Western stories.  His autobiographical war novel The Beardless Warriors was published in 1960. || Reginald Bretnor is a pseudonym of Alfred Reginald Kahn.

"Reginald Bretnor was a science fiction author who flourished between the 1950s and 1980s. Most of his fiction was in short story form, and usually featured a whimsical story line or ironic plot twist." Wikipedia || An American novelist, most famous for the *Studs Lonigan* trilogy.