''Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 (1950)'' is the twelfth volume of Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories, which is a series of short story collections, edited by

Isaac Asimov yi, יצחק אזימאװ , birth_date = , birth_place = Petrovichi, Russian SFSR , spouse = , relatives = , children = 2 , death_date = , death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S. , nationality = Russian (1920–1922)Soviet (192 ...

and Martin H. Greenberg, which attempts to list the great science fiction stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. They date the Golden Age as beginning in 1939 and lasting until 1963. The book was later reprinted as the second half of Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Sixth Series with the first half being

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 (1949) ''Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 (1949)'' is the eleventh volume of Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories, which is a series of short story collections, edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, which attempts to list the ...

. It was the last book in the series to be reprinted as part of the ''Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction'' series. This volume was originally published by DAW books in September 1984.

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Not with a Bang ''Not with a Bang'' was a short-lived British television sitcom produced by LWT for ITV in 1990. It ran for seven episodes, each 30 minutes long. The show was a dark science fiction comedy, focusing on the end of the human race on Earth. The ...

" by Damon Knight * "Spectator Sport" by

John D. MacDonald John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories. He is known for his thrillers. MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many set in his adopted home of Florida. On ...

* " There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury * "Dear Devil" by Eric Frank Russell * "

Scanners Live in Vain "Scanners Live in Vain" is a science fiction short story by American writer Cordwainer Smith ( pen name of American writer Paul Linebarger). It was the first story in Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind future history to be published and the first ...

" by Cordwainer Smith * "

Born of Man and Woman "Born of Man and Woman" is a science fiction short story by American writer Richard Matheson, originally published in the July 1950 issue of ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction''. It was his first professional sale, written when he was ...

" by Richard Matheson * " The Little Black Bag" by

C. M. Kornbluth Cyril M. Kornbluth (July 2, 1923 – March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a member of the Futurians. He used a variety of pen-names, including Cecil Corwin, S. D. Gottesman, Edward J. Bellin, Kenneth Falconer, W ...

* "Enchanted Village" by A. E. van Vogt * "Oddy and Id" by Alfred Bester * "The Sack" by William Morrison * "The Silly Season" by C. M. Kornbluth * "

Misbegotten Missionary "Green Patches" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the November 1950 issue of ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' under the title "Misbegotten Missionary", and reprinted under that title in the 195 ...

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To Serve Man "To Serve Man" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It first appeared in the November 1950 issue of ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' and has been reprinted a number of times, including in ''Frontiers in Space'' (1955), '' ...

" by Damon Knight * " Coming Attraction" by Fritz Leiber * "A Subway Named Mobius" by A. J. Deutsch * "Process" by A. E. van Vogt * "The Mindworm" by C. M. Kornbluth * "The New Reality" by

Charles L. Harness Charles Leonard Harness (December 29, 1915 – September 20, 2005)Clute, John ''The Independent'', October 11, 2005. was an American science fiction writer. Biography He was born in Colorado City, Texas, and grew up just outside it, then lat ...

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