The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

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|release_date = September 1976

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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,{{cite web|url=https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1977|title=Locus Awards 1977|work=Science Fiction Awards Database |access-date=November 9, 2024}} 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.

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.

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Category:1976 short story collections

Category:Science fiction short story collections by Isaac Asimov

Category:Doubleday (publisher) books

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

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