 the bicentennial man and other stories is a science fiction anthology written and edited by isaac asimov (isbn 0-385-12198-9). following the usual form for asimov collections, it consists of eleven short stories and a poem surrounded by commentary describing how each came to be written. the stories are as follows (original publication in parentheses): * "the prime of life" - poem (f&sf, october 1966) * "feminine intuition" (f&sf, october 1969) * "waterclap" (galaxy, may 1970) * "that thou art mindful of him" (f&amp;sf, may 1974) * "stranger in paradise" (if, mayâjune 1974) * "the life and times of multivac" (new york times magazine, [sunday] 5 january 1975) * "the winnowing" (analog, february 1976) * "the bicentennial man" (judy-lynn del rey, ed., stellar science fiction #2, february 1976) * "marching in" (high fidelity magazine, april 1976) * "old-fashioned" (bell telephone magazine, february 1976) * "the tercentenary incident" (ellery queen's mystery magazine, august 1976) * "birth of a notion" (amazing stories, april 1976) two of the stories, "feminine intuition" and "the bicentennial man", were inspired by judy-lynn del rey. the latter was expanded into a novel, the positronic man (with robert silverberg), which formed the basis of the 1999 touchstone pictures and columbia pictures film bicentennial man.   ==references==  
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