Earth Is Room Enough

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Earth Is Room Enough
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Isaac Asimov
Country	USA
Language	English
Genre(s)	science fiction short stories
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	August 1957
Media type	print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	192 pp
ISBN	NA (first edition), ISBN 0-586-01042-4 (later edition)
Preceded by	The Martian Way and Other Stories
Followed by	Nine Tomorrows

Earth Is Room Enough is a collection of fifteen short science fiction and fantasy stories and two pieces of comic verse published by Isaac Asimov in 1957. In his autobiography In Joy Still Felt, Asimov wrote, "I was still thinking of the remarks of reviewers such as George O. Smith . . . concerning my penchant for wandering over the Galaxy. I therefore picked stories that took place on Earth and called the book Earth Is Room Enough." The collection includes one story from the Robot Series and four stories that feature or mention the fictional computer Multivac.

The most substantial work in the collection is the opening novelette: "The Dead Past".

[edit] Contents

• The Dead Past 1956 (A Multivac story)
• The Foundation of S.F. Success 1954
• Franchise 1957 (A Multivac story)
• Gimmicks Three 1956
• Kid Stuff 1953
• The Watery Place 1957
• Living Space 1957
• The Message 1955
• Satisfaction Guaranteed 1951 (A Robot story)
• Hell-Fire 1957
• The Last Trump 1955
• The Fun They Had 1957
• Jokester 1956 (A Multivac story)
• The Immortal Bard 1953
• Someday 1956 (A Multivac story)
• The Author's Ordeal 1957
• Dreaming Is a Private Thing 1955

[edit] References

• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent, 21. ISBN 0-911682-20-1. 

v • d • e Earth Is Room Enough by Isaac Asimov The Dead Past • The Foundation of S.F. Success • Franchise • Gimmicks Three • Kid Stuff • The Watery Place • Living Space • The Message • Satisfaction Guaranteed • Hell-Fire • The Last Trump • The Fun They Had • Jokester • The Immortal Bard • Someday • The Author's Ordeal • Dreaming Is a Private Thing

v • d • e Science fiction short story collections by Isaac Asimov I, Robot (1950) • The Martian Way and Other Stories (1955) • Earth Is Room Enough (1957) • Nine Tomorrows (1959) • The Rest of the Robots (1964) • Through a Glass, Clearly (1967) • Nightfall and Other Stories (1969) • The Early Asimov (1972) • The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973) • Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975) • The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976) • The Complete Robot (1982) • The Winds of Change and Other Stories (1983) • The Alternate Asimovs (1986) • The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986) • Robot Dreams (1986) • Azazel (1988) • Gold (1990) • Robot Visions (1990) • Magic (1995) List of short stories by Isaac Asimov