![]() …the reason I choose “Robot AL 76 Goes Astray” from among the rest of the robot yarns for inclusion here is that it’s the light-hearted one. “Robot AL 76 Goes Astray” by Isaac Asimov ( Amazing Stories, February 1942) The authors are arranged alphabetically, not chronologically. Furthermore, although this selection was made a few years ago, and though the various authors have spent their time since in successful production of more science fiction, almost all of them still believe the tale they picked for this anthology remains their best. He has offered it along with a brief explanation of why. ![]() Thus, each author has chosen from his own files the story he believes to be the best he has written. ![]() For the authors themselves are the selectors of the material and the only restriction we, the editors, imposed was that the stories should be outstanding science fiction. ![]() Here is a volume with exactly twelve’ editorial slants-one for each of the stories. Still, they felt that an anthology not based on a thematic idea would be intriguing: Healy & McComus’s Adventures in Time & Space, the first big collection, appeared only three years earlier. The way the editors open the book it sounds like there are hundreds of anthologies of SF but this isn’t really true. My Best Science Fiction Story (1949) was an SF anthology by Leo Marguiles and Oscar J. ![]()
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