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	Past Winners of SFWA(R) Nebula Awards(R)
		Short Story: "The Bone Flute" by Lisa Tuttle (This Nebula Award was declined by the author.)
		Short Story: "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" by Geoffrey A. Landis
		Short Story: "Death and the Librarian" by Esther Friesner
	www.sfwa.org /awards/archive/pastwin.htm (1084 words)

	Mother Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mother Earth is a common metaphorical expression for the Earth and its biosphere as the giver and sustainer of life.
		In many Neo-Pagan and Wiccan traditions, Mother Earth is seen as the Goddess, with the Horned God as her consort (and sometimes son).
		Mother Earth is also the title of a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mother_Earth (180 words)

	Mother Earth (Asimov) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mother Earth (1949) is a short story by Isaac Asimov, part of his Robot Series.
		It is set a thousand years before The Caves of Steel, and shows the beginnings of the Spacer Federation, and the independence of the Spacer worlds from Earth.
		This story can be found in the collection The Early Asimov, volume 3.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mother_Earth_(Asimov) (90 words)

	The History of the Positronic Robot and Empire Novels, 1947-1958
		Asimov was reluctant, since he had only written short stories with robots and wasn't sure if he could come up with a novel-length robot story.
		Gold suggested that Asimov write a murder mystery on an overpopulated world, with a detective who would lose his job to his robot partner if he was unable to solve the murder.
		The overpopulated world Asimov set the story in was Earth, and in the novel he recreated the milieu of his story "Mother Earth".
	www.asimovonline.com /oldsite/Robot_Empire_history.html (1490 words)

	Isaac Asimov
		Asimov's best known works are the short story "Nightfall" (1941, acclaimed as the best science fiction story ever written), and the various installments in his Foundation and Robot series (Foundation’s Edge, I, Robot, etc.).
		It was Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and his concept of the positronic brain that inspired Gene Roddenberry to create Data, the Star Trek: The Next Generation android.
		Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia (near Smolensk) in 1920, on or near January second.
	www.nndb.com /people/702/000023633 (1421 words)

	Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is a collection of thirty-one robot stories published between 1940 and 1976 and includes every short story in the earlier collection I, Robot (1950).
		Actually, it is a collection of four stories, originally published between 1942 and 1944, plus an introductory section written for the book in 1949.
		Donald Kingsbury's short story "Historical Crisis" is a semi-sequel to the Foundation series.
	theages.superman.ws /users/mas/asimov/foundation.html (671 words)

	Laisen: Science Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is the story of the young Hari Seldon.
		This is the story of the third invasion.
		The novel tells the story of Bean from an orphan on and of the streets to Battle School thereby telling another side of the story of Ender and the fight against the Buggers.
	www.laisen.dk /Science_Fiction.3643.0.html (2329 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Arthur C Clark & Isaac Asimov / Asimov's Written Works
		Nine stories, nine visions of the future, from the 21st Century Olympics to a suicidal computer to a boy taken from 40,000 years in the past.
		A massive collection of short stories written by Asimov during the period of 1940 to 1950.
		Plot: This novel expands on Asimov's short story "The Ugly Little Boy" by telling the full heart-wrenching story of a young boy pulled forward 40,000 years in time from his Neanderthal family and the scientist who becomes his surrogate mother.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /scifi/other/sf-book2.htm (1867 words)

	Doug's Library -- Main Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In newer versions of this paperback, Asimov recounts the interesting story of his work on these novels, explaining their sequence, when they were written, etc. This first in the robot series is actually a series of somewhat independent novellas strung together to recount the future history of the early days of robotics.
		In the meantime, Earth is apparently under attack by a new race of ocean-dwelling creatures placed in the oceans from an unknown origin, and part of the novel involves one man's attempt to communicate with the creatures.
		This story is set in the future on a distant human colony that is at the center of political controversy, but to be honest, I was so interested in the basic premise that I felt the vast majority of the political intrigue in the book was a waste of space.
	personal.tcu.edu /~dingram/books (18565 words)

	authors
		Short story, "Born on the Edge of an Adjective," in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, issue 10, Spring '02 (to be reprinted in Fantastic Metropolis).
		Short story, "Principles and Parameters," The Children of Cthulhu, Jan. '02.
		Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy and On Spec, and the first novel in her science fiction trilogy, CITY OF PEARL, is published by HarperCollins in March 2004.
	www.sff.net /campbell-awards/02authors.htm (3306 words)

	Asimov - Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)
		Every parent on Earth would be listening to the quality of reading when his child came home with it; listening for any particularly easy flow of words and building that into certain omens of the future.
		All over Earth, George knew, Olympics would be taking place and young men would be competing, matching their skills against one another in the fight for a place on a new world.
		I was laughing at Earth and its emphasis on physical science, and the practical segments of it at that.
	www.abelard.org /asimov.htm (14388 words)

	Lost Books - Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
		Earth Abides is considered a classic by several sources but to my way of thinking, it deserves that exalted position in speculative fiction for having been a forerunner is demonstrating that fl and white can live together.
		Earth Abides won the International Fantasy Award in 1951, is included in Science Fiction: The 100 Best Books by David Pringle (both editions), was included in Locus Magazine's All Time Best Science Fiction Novels in 1987, and was a Prometheus Hall of Fame Finalist in 1990.
		Like "Bring the Jubilee," the story is written as a flashback, by a time traveler who has created an alternate universe, but in de Camp's story, the narrator is anything but pleased with the world he created.
	www.lostbooks.org /reviews/1998-06-11-1.html (2270 words)

	»»Short Reviews««
		The title story is particularly poignant, and shows the level of anti-semitism in Russia mostly in the 1940's, and how while it was there, it was not the same as that of Poland, which was ingrained in the society for 100's of years, or that of Germany, which was institutionalized by the Nazi party.
		Of particular interest are the illustrated stories, where the text is complimented by collages made from old photographs and illustrations, somewhat in the manner of the Surrealists.
		The story begins with a friendship that develops between a Dominican priest and the captain of a ship on which he is emigrating to America.
	www.financial-book-review.com /Shootout/Short/Short_72.html (4458 words)

	generation5 - Anime and the Acceptance of Robotics in Japan: A Symbiotic Relationship
		The story goes that Astro Boy was created by a top scientist at the National Space Agency to replace a son tragically lost.
		Twenty years on, and Earth is invaded by massive aliens called 'Angels': giant, seemingly indestructible beasts with highly destructive weaponry.
		Stories were simple and repetitive, eventually degenerating to 30-minute advertisements for toy companies.
	www.generation5.org /content/2004/anime-robotics.asp (5876 words)

	Earth Sciences Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This book is a compilation (accounts and stories, some related in great detail) of the ordeals of survivors of shipwrecks, plane crashes, exploring expeditions, etc. The accounts are fascinating (who couldn't find survival stories like these fascinating: just wondering how each of us would fare in similar circumstances is compelling enough).
		The topic of child theft and their use as a labour force on farms, in mines, and as prostitutes is somthing most of use may not think about but occurs all time in all countries, in one form or another.
		Yet the story also shows us that children can have the greatest impact on use personally and on society if they are given a chance to succeed.
	www.booksunderreview.com /Science/Earth_Sciences/Earth_Sciences_218.html (9891 words)

	Chowhound's Recommended Reading List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is a story of a town that once had fifty thousand Jews and by the end of the Nazi Holocaust only five thousand remained.
		Eric Asimov might not read as gung ho as Levine or Carter, nor does he rival Sietsema's insatiable appetite for the unusual and exotic.
		Tisdale's organization is more than a bit confusing, as she switches from her mother's dinners to the history of processed food to her own experiences in a commune, but her writing is evocative and very well-executed.
	www.chowhound.com /reading/reading.html (7716 words)

	TexasBestGrok
		Short story count (as of December 31, 2006): 705 (61 entries were from paper or electronic magazines).
		For Love and Glory is based on a couple of stories that Anderson wrote for the so-called Isaac’s Universe series that Avon and DAW published between 1990 and 1995.
		Isaac Asimov created the overall background and authors such as David Brin, Robert Silverberg, Hal Clement and others contributed stories to the four collections and two novels (The Diplomacy Guild, Phases in Chaos, Unnatural Diplomacy, Fossil by Hal Clement and Murder at the Galactic Writers’ Society by Janet Asimov).
	www.texasbestgrok.mu.nu (7924 words)

	Isacc Asimov - Bibliographie et brève biographie
		He graduated in chemistry and after a short spell in the Army he gained his doctorate in 1949 and qualified as an instructor in biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine where he became Associate Professor in 1955, doing research in nucleic acid.
		Isaac Asimov wrote, about his love-affair with robots, "That issue [December 1938 issue of "Astounding Science Fiction"] contained Helen O'Loy by Lester del Rey, a story in which a robot was portrayed sympathetically.
		This was much the poorer story of the two, but again I vibrated.
	frsr.free.fr /other/ia0000.html (466 words)

	The Official Kim Newman Web Site: Short Stories
		This short story was included on an information package sent to Mars by a US-Russian probe in 1994.
		Psychic investigator Richard Jeperson first appeared in plays and stories Kim Newman wrote as a schoolboy in the 1970s, which are mercifully lost to history.
		The bulk of the stories are set during Jeperson's paisley-drenched heyday, but Swellhead brings the series into the 21st Century and the hero out of enforced retirement.
	www.johnnyalucard.com /shorts.html (2439 words)

	Amazon.com: Tales of Old Earth: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nineteen tales from Michael Swanwick's best short fiction of the past decade are gathered here for the first time, including the 1999 Hugo Award-nominated "Radiant Doors" and "Wild Minds" and this year's winning story, "The Very Pulse of the Machine." The collection also features "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O," written especially for this volume.
		The first story, "The Very Pulse of the Machine," about time travel and dinosaurs, is really pretty good -- but it's also the basis for a chapter in his latest novel, _Bones of the Earth_ (only slightly rewritten) so I already knew where it was going.
		Swanwick is excellent in the short story and novelette regions but I'm as of yet unfamiliar with his novels.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1583940162?v=glance (1696 words)

	The Last Query - Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Earth exploited its coal and uranium with increasing efficiency, but there was only so much of both.
		Seven days had not sufficed to dim the glory of it and Adell and Lupov finally managed to escape from the public function, and to meet in quiet where no one would think of looking for them, in the deserted underground chambers, where portions of the mighty buried body of Google showed.
		You're like the guy in the story who was caught in a sudden shower and who ran to a grove of trees and got under one.
	interconnected.org /notes/2003/05/last-query.html (3478 words)

	"Partners" a Sime~Gen(tm) short story by Andrea Alton
		In commercially published novels and stories, the assumption is that any reader encountering the work is seeing Sime~Gen for the first time or hardly remembers their last encounter and probably doesn't care that they've forgotten.
		Stories in it can be based on any theme, expound any philosophy, explore any kind of event-situation plot, and be presented in any style whatever.
		At the time Andrea wrote this short piece, she didn't really have total command of the craft's tools, so when I sent the submission draft back to her with some suggestions to polish it, she didn't really understand what I was saying to her about it.
	www.simegen.com /sgfandom/rimonslibrary/partners.html (13748 words)

	I Will Write A Short Story About Anything You Post - Planet DarkAges Forums
		How about Jesus and Satan's epic adventures on an earth 5,000 years into the future, where hyper-evolved cows are the dominant species, and where humanburger is the sandwich meat of choice.
		If your story isn't too dry, it's too "over-the-top." And that's if they do you the decency of telling you exactly what was wrong with your story.
		It was a very brief, direct letter saying that they were interested in the story, but wanted me to call to discuss a few changes to the story.
	www.planetda.net /index.php?showtopic=9806 (3052 words)

	Catalog: Jessica's Stuff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Among her stories which are much the sort of thing one would expect from Wilkins-Freeman we may count the ghost story "There & Here" but with lesbian undertones unexpected of a Victorian era tale, & "Old Lemuel's Journey" a regionalist tale but with time travel instead of a ghost.
		Jessopp's "An Antiquary's Ghost Story" is moderately well known, but few people are aware that he composed others in the final decade of the nineteenth century, including the title story which is a telling of a tale first told to Augustus by his neighbor & friend, the father of H. Rider Haggard.
		The early title story in the manner of Poe is one of the finest weird tales of Victorian America.
	www.violetbooks.com /CATALOGS/salmonson.html (3212 words)

	featured story page continuum science fiction features great short stories
		Stephen sets his tale on a planet far from Earth, yet not so far that the colonists there do not reflect, or one might say suffer from, many of the weaknesses and foibles that plague the inhabitants of the mother world.
		Any time you have a story about an alien invasion of Earth, it is by definition science fiction.
		Where before he looked to God for guidance, he now believes “we are on our own.” The balance of the story revolves, on one level, around the attack by aliens on the Hess farmhouse, and on a deeper lever, around Hess’ rediscovery of his belief in God.
	www.continuumsciencefiction.com /story.htm (9998 words)

	Tanith Lee Bibliography - Contributions to Books and Periodicals - Page 1
		A mother sends her two daughters—half-sisters Bergette and Ghilane to the Widow to get some eggs.
		The narrator remembers her grandmother’s delight in telling her and her cousins stories they shouldn’t hear: tale of men who turn into wolves that live in the woods.
		Twelve months later, the story still fresh in his mind, he begins his own investigation of the incredible event.
	www.daughterofthenight.com /tlb001.html (1597 words)

	Crescat Sententia: March 14, 2004 - March 20, 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		So if anyone has a story about going a long way specifically for a meal or an ingredient or a food, I’d love to hear it, whether it’s a pizza, or a truffle, or a basket of particularly tasty French fries.
		(the simplified story) Congressmen can get a certain number of brownie points with their constituents by sponsoring bills and voting for them; if the bill is then struck down, they can complain that they did their best but goshdarnit, those conservatives/liberals on the Supreme Court struck it down.
		Eric Asimov takes a pleasant little trip down memory lane in the Times dining section, lamenting the expense of the delicious wines he once found for $6.
	www.crescatsententia.org /archives/week_2004_03_14.html (8579 words)

	Rudy Rucker's Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		My mother, who was born in Germany, was an enthusiastic gardener, amateur artist and potter.
		A new story written with Bruce Sterling, "Junk DNA," was the cover story for Isaac Asimov's SF magazine in December, 2002.
		This reminds me of why I don't write stories very often: the magazine market is so much more conservative and constrained than is the novel market.
	www.cs.sjsu.edu /faculty/rucker/biography.htm (2820 words)

	SFWA Nebula Awards
		Short Story: "A Crowd of Shadows" by C. Grant
		Short Story: "The Bone Flute" by Lisa Tuttle [declined by author]
		Short Story: "Death and the Librarian" by Esther M. Friesner
	dpsinfo.com /awardweb/nebulas (1396 words)

	Fictional Footnotes and Indexes
		, a collection of short stories, "most of which consist of paragraphs with headings, some of which are pseudo-scientific reports.
		The one footnote reads, "I have used the word radium in describing this powder because in the light of recent discoveries on Earth I believe it to be a mixture of which radium is the base.
		Facing each page is a visual document relating either to the main story or one of the commentaries....
	www.miskatonic.org /footnotes.html (2221 words)

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