num_pages: 196
description: From backyard miracles to cosmic conundrums enter the incredible world of Isaac Asimov. Spanning twenty-three years of Asimov's amazing career these stories display to the full the exhilarating power of one of science fiction's most astonishing writers. Each tale is accompanied by Asimov's own intriguing account of how and why it came to be written.Contents: Darwinian Pool Room  (1950) Day of the Hunters  (1950) Shah Guido G.  (1951) Button Button  (1953) The Monkey's Finger  (1953) Everest  (1953) The Pause  (1954) Let's Not  (1954) Each an Explorer  (1956) Blank!  (1957) Does a Bee Care?  (1957) Silly Asses  (1958)  Buy Jupiter  (1976) A Statue for Father  (1959) Rain Rain Go Away  (1959) Founding Father  (1965) Exile to Hell  (1968) Key Item  [Multivac]  (1968) The Proper Study  (1968) 2430 A.D.  (1970) The Greatest Asset  (1972) Take a Match  (1972) Thiotimoline to the Stars  [Thiotimoline 4]  (1973) Light Verse  (1973)
language: English
title: Buy Jupiter and other stories
publisher: Panther