The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox book The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories is a science fiction anthology written and edited by Isaac Asimov. Following the usual form for Asimov collections, it consists of eleven short stories and a poem surrounded by commentary describing how each came to be written. The collection was voted 5th in the 1977 Locus Award competition for the Best Author Collection,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> while the titular novelette won Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for the Best Novelette.
Five of the stories are Robot stories, while one is a Multivac story.
Contents
The stories are as follows (original publication in parentheses):
- "The Prime of Life" (F&SF, October 1966), poem
- "Feminine Intuition" (F&SF, October 1969), novelette, Robot series
- "Waterclap" (Galaxy, May 1970), novelette
- "That Thou Art Mindful of Him" (F&SF, May 1974), novelette, Robot series
- "Stranger in Paradise" (If, May–June 1974), novelette, Robot series
- "The Life and Times of Multivac" (New York Times Magazine, [Sunday] 5 January 1975), Multivac series
- "The Winnowing" (Analog, February 1976)
- "The Bicentennial Man" (Judy-Lynn del Rey, ed., Stellar Science Fiction #2, February 1976), novelette, Robot series
- "Marching In" (High Fidelity magazine, April 1976)
- "Old-fashioned" (Bell Telephone Magazine, February 1976)
- "The Tercentenary Incident" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1976), Robot series
- "Birth of a Notion" (Amazing Stories, April 1976)
Two of the stories, "Feminine Intuition" and "The Bicentennial Man", were inspired by Judy-Lynn del Rey. The latter was expanded into a novel, The Positronic Man (with Robert Silverberg), which formed the basis of the 1999 Touchstone Pictures and Columbia Pictures film Bicentennial Man. Template:Bicentennial Man Template:Asimov story collections