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{{Short description|Short story collection by Isaac Asimov}}
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{{Infobox book 
|name = Earth Is Room Enough
|image         = Earth is room enough.jpg
| image_size = 200px
|caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
|cover_artist = Tony Palladino<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?11772|title = Publication: Earth is Room Enough}}</ref>
|author = [[Isaac Asimov]]
|country = United States 
|language = English
|series = 
|genre = [[Science fiction]] 
|publisher = [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]
|release_date = October 3, 1957<ref>{{cite journal |date=October 3, 1957 |title=Books Published Today |journal=[[The New York Times]] |page=26 }}</ref>
|media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)
|pages = 192
|isbn = 0-586-01042-4
|isbn_note = (later edition)<ref>The first edition has no ISBN</ref>
|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 by American writer [[Isaac Asimov]], published 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 (Asimov)|''Robot'' series]] and four stories that feature or mention the fictional [[computer]] [[Multivac]].

In 2024, it was republished by [[HarperVoyager]] as the first half of "Living Space and Other Stories". It also formed the first half of "The Complete Stories, Volume 1" published in 2001.

==Contents==

*"[[The Dead Past]]" (1956), novelette, a ''Multivac'' story
*"[[The Foundation of S.F. Success]]" (1954), poem
*"[[Franchise (short story)|Franchise]]" (1955), a ''Multivac'' story
*"[[Gimmicks Three]]" (1956)
*"[[Kid Stuff]]" (1953)
*"[[The Watery Place]]" (1956)
*"[[Living Space]]" (1956)
*"[[The Message (short story)|The Message]]" (1955)
*"[[Satisfaction Guaranteed (short story)|Satisfaction Guaranteed]]" (1951), a ''[[Susan Calvin]]'' robot story
*"[[Hell-Fire]]" (1956)
*"[[The Last Trump]]" (1955)
*"[[The Fun They Had]]" (1951)
*"[[Jokester]]" (1956), a ''Multivac'' story
*"[[The Immortal Bard]]" (1953)
*"[[Someday (short story)|Someday]]" (1956), a ''Robots'' and ''Multivac'' story
*"[[The Author's Ordeal]]" (1957), poem
*"[[Dreaming Is a Private Thing]]" (1955)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
*{{cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=21 | year=1974|isbn=0-911682-20-1}}

==External links==
*[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?11772 ''Earth is Room Enough''] at the [[Internet Speculative Fiction Database]]

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