Earth Is Room Enough

Earth Is Room Enough

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Isaac Asimov
Cover artist	Tony Palladino[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	science fiction short stories
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	August 1957
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	192
ISBN	0-586-01042-4 (later edition)[2]
Preceded by	The Martian Way and Other Stories
Followed by	Nine Tomorrows

Earth Is Room Enough is a collection of seventeen 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".

Contents

1. The Dead Past 1956
2. The Foundation of S.F. Success 1954 (poem)
3. Franchise 1955 (a Multivac story)
4. Gimmicks Three 1956
5. Kid Stuff 1953
6. The Watery Place 1956
7. Living Space 1956
8. The Message 1955
9. Satisfaction Guaranteed 1951 (a Susan Calvin robot story)
10. Hell-Fire 1956
11. The Last Trump 1955
12. The Fun They Had 1951
13. Jokester 1956 (a Multivac story)
14. The Immortal Bard 1953
15. Someday 1956 (a Multivac story)
16. The Author's Ordeal 1957 (poem)
17. Dreaming Is a Private Thing 1955

References

1. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?11772
2. The first edition has no ISBN

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

External links

• Earth is Room Enough at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database