Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 1 (1939)

First edition, cover art by Jack Gaughan

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) is an American collection of short stories. It the first volume of Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories, a series of short story collections, edited by Isaac Asimov 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 first half of Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction: 36 Stories and Novellas with the second half being Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 2 (1940).

This volume was originally published by DAW books in March 1979.

Stories

1. "I, Robot" by Eando Binder
2. "The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton" by Robert Bloch
3. "Trouble With Water" by Horace L. Gold
4. "Cloak of Aesir" by Don A. Stuart
5. "The Day is Done" by Lester del Rey
6. "The Ultimate Catalyst" by John Taine
7. "The Gnarly Man" by L. Sprague de Camp
8. "Black Destroyer" by Alfred E. van Vogt
9. "Greater Than Gods" by Catherine L. Moore
10. "Trends" by Isaac Asimov
11. "The Blue Giraffe" by L. Sprague De Camp
12. "The Misguided Halo" by Henry Kuttner
13. "Heavy Planet" by Milton A. Rothman
14. "Life-Line" by Robert A. Heinlein
15. "Ether Breather" by Theodore Sturgeon
16. "Pilgrimage" by Nelson Bond
17. "Rust" by Joseph E. Kelleam
18. "The Four-Sided Triangle" by William F. Temple
19. "Star Bright" by Jack Williamson
20. "Misfit" by Robert A. Heinlein