Fiction

Excerpts from Asimov's science fiction mysteries detail investigations into scientific puzzles, strange phenomena, and crimes, featuring unique characters and logical deduction.

This book explores the necessary conditions for planets to be habitable for humans, considering factors like temperature, atmosphere, and gravity, and estimates the probability of finding such worlds around other stars.

Isaac Asimov introduces this anthology of Hugo Award-winning novelettes and short stories from science fiction conventions.

Professor Brade investigates his student's cyanide death, uncovering faked research and his mentor Cap Anson as the killer, while also facing job insecurity.

The excerpts from "Nine Tomorrows" present diverse futuristic scenarios exploring themes of learning, technology's impact, human interactions, and existential questions, often with surprising twists.

A team of five are miniaturized and journey inside a man's body in a mini-submarine. Their objective is to reach and destroy a blood clot with a laser to save him and the world. They face numerous dangers during their mission.

Lucky Starr and Bigman pursue a Sirian spy to Saturn's rings, get captured on Titan, and Lucky orchestrates a surrender and a conference to expose Sirian aggression.

Earth is Room Enough is a collection of science fiction stories by Isaac Asimov, focusing on tales set on Earth, exploring various themes and concepts within a familiar setting.

Lucky Starr investigates sabotage on Mercury, revealing a Sirian robot and uncovering a conspiracy involving Dr. Peverale, who feared Sirian dominance.

Eternal Technician Andrew Harlan becomes entangled with Timer Noys Lambent while manipulating Reality Changes, leading to unforeseen complications and a potential catastrophic end of Eternity.

The sources contain three short stories: "The Martian Way" about Martian independence through a water crisis, "Youth" involving boys finding alien creatures, and "The Deep" concerning an alien survival mission.

On oceanic Venus, Lucky Starr battles a hidden human enemy who uses mental control via V-frogs to threaten Aphrodite and its inhabitants.