Tales from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
A collection of seventeen science fiction stories by authors including Frederik Pohl, Isaac Asimov, Pamela Sargent, and Octavia E. Butler.

The Amber Frog - novelette by Stephanie A. Smith
The Anatomy Lesson - short story by Scott Russell Sanders [as by Scott Sanders]
The First Day - short story by Art Vesity
The Forever Summer - novelette by Ronald Anthony Cross
The High Test - short story by Frederik Pohl
A Letter from the Clearys - short story by Connie Willis
Playing for Keeps - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
Potential - short story by Isaac Asimov
Power Times One - short story by J. Michael Matuszewicz
The Random Man - short story by Marc Laidlaw
Realtime - novelette by Daniel Keys Moran and Gladys Prebehalla
Shrinker - novelette by Pamela Sargent
Someone Else's House - short story by Lee Chisholm
Speech Sounds - short story by Octavia E. Butler
Tank - short story by Francis E. Izzo
Things That Go Quack in the Night - short story by Edith Shiner and Lewis Shiner
Wet Behind the Ears - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
American Science fiction, Science fiction, Short stories
Sheila Williams, Stephanie A. Smith, Scott R. Sanders, Art Vesity, Ronald Anthony Cross, Connie Willis, Jack C. Haldeman, Isaac Asimov, Marc Laidlaw, Daniel Keys Moran, Pamela Sargent, Octavia E. Butler, Edith Shiner, Lewis Shiner, Cynthia Manson
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. || 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. || Pamela Sargent (born March 20, 1948) is an American feminist, science fiction author, and editor. She has an MA in classical philosophy and has won a Nebula Award.

Sargent wrote a trilogy concerning the terraforming of Venus that is sometimes compared to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, but predates it. She also edited various anthologies to celebrate the contributions of women in the history of science fiction. She is noted for writing alternate history stories. She also collaborated with George Zebrowski on four Star Trek novels. || An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field.

[Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]:
Octavia E Butler (1947–2006)

> I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. For many years, Butler was the sole African-American woman novelist in science fiction. Kindred tells the wrenching and unforgettable story of a young black woman who time-travels and saves the life of her slaveholder ancestor, but it is, in Butler's words, "a grim fantasy", not science fiction.

> Beginning in the 1970s, Butler wrote three sequences of novels: the Patternist books, the Lilith's Brood series and the Parable novels (incomplete at her tragic death in 2006). Critically respected, she won the Hugo and Nebula awards, received a Clarke nomination, the PEN lifetime achievement award and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. A serious writer working in a field that is seldom taken seriously, Butler addressed biological control, gender, humanity's relationship with aliens, genetics and even the development of a fictional religion. Her narratives leave space for the reader's involvement while exploring the nature of change. They gaze unflinchingly on power dynamics. "Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles," Butler stated, "and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together." Butler's writing is courageous, stimulating and infused with a rare purity of intention. Crushingly, she died at the height of her powers. [Bloodchild and Other Stories][2] is a good place to begin discovering her work.


  [1]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice
  [2]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL35621W/Bloodchild_and_other_stories || American writer