''Buy Jupiter and Other Stories'' is a 1975 collection of
short stories
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by American writer
Isaac Asimov. Each story is introduced by a short account of how it came to be written and what was happening in Asimov's life at the time, and follows on from where ''
The Early Asimov
''The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying'' is a 1972 collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov. Each story is accompanied by commentary by the author, who gives details about his life and his literary achievements in the period in which he w ...
'' (1972) left off. In the introduction, Asimov explains that his objective is to tell enough of his autobiography in his short story collections so that his editors will stop asking him to write an actual autobiography. (However he eventually wrote
three volumes of autobiography anyway.)
Contents
The book includes the following stories:
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Darwinian Pool Room" (1950)
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Day of the Hunters
"Day of the Hunters" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was published in the November 1950 issue of '' Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories'', edited by Robert W. Lowndes, and reprinted in the 1975 colle ...
" (1950)
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Shah Guido G. "Shah Guido G." is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the November 1951 issue of '' Marvel Science Fiction'' and reprinted in the 1975 collection '' Buy Jupiter and Other Stories'', where Asimo ...
" (1951)
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Button, Button" (1953)
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The Monkey's Finger" (1953)
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Everest
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" (1953)
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The Pause" (1954)
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Let's Not" (1954)
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Each an Explorer" (1956)
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Blank!" (1957)
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Does a Bee Care?" (1957)
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Silly Asses" (1958)
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Buy Jupiter" (1958)
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A Statue for Father" (1959)
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Rain, Rain, Go Away" (1959)
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Founding Father
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" (1965)
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Exile to Hell" (1968)
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Key Item" (1968), ''Multivac'' series
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The Proper Study" (1968)
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2430 A.D." (1970)
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The Greatest Asset" (1972)
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Take a Match" (1972)
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Thiotimoline to the Stars" (1973), ''Thiotimoline'' series #4
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Light Verse
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" (1973), ''Robot'' series
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References
Asimov, Isaac ''Buy Jupiter and Other Stories'' (1975)
Science fiction short story collections by Isaac Asimov
1975 short story collections
Doubleday (publisher) books
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