[Robots and Foundation 01] • Foundation’s Friends

In this anthology honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Isaac Asimov's remarkable science fiction novel, today's leading authors—including Pul Anderson, Orson Scott Card, and Connie Willis—present stories set in the future that Asimov created in his own stories and novels.

Contents

Preface · Ray Bradbury

Second Preface: The Nonmetallic Isaac or It’s a Wonderful Life · Ben Bova

Strip-Runner · Pamela Sargent

The Asenion Solution · Robert Silverberg

Murder in the Urth Degree · Edward Wellen

Trantor Falls · Harry Turtledove

Dilemma · Connie Willis

Maureen Birnbaum After Dark [Maureen Birnbaum] · George Alec Effinger

Balance · Mike Resnick

The Present Eternal · Barry N. Malzberg

PAPPI · Sheila Finch

The Reunion at the Mile-High · Frederik Pohl

Plato’s Cave · Poul Anderson

Foundation’s Conscience · George Zebrowski

Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie · Robert Sheckley

The Overheard Conversation · Edward D. Hoch

Blot · Hal Clement

The Fourth Law of Robotics · Harry Harrison

The Originist · Orson Scott Card

Afterword: A Word or Two from Janet · Janet Jeppson Asimov

Afterword: Fifty Years · Isaac Asimov