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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7813793 Title: Laughing space : funny science fiction Author: Isaac Asimov; J O Jeppson Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 1982. ISBN/ISSN: 0395305195 9780395305195 OCLC:7813793

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Laughing space : funny science fiction

Author:	Isaac Asimov; J O Jeppson
Publisher:	Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	An anthology of humorous science fiction in the form of stories, poems, and cartoons.
Rating:	based on 1 rating(s) 1 with a review
Subjects	American wit and humor. American wit and humor, Pictorial. Science fiction, American.
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Genre/Form:	Science fiction
Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Laughing space. Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 1982 (OCoLC)681741137
Material Type:	Fiction
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Isaac Asimov; J O Jeppson Find more information about:
ISBN:	0395305195 9780395305195
OCLC Number:	7813793
Notes:	Short stories.
Description:	xvi, 520 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:	Spaced out / Russell Baker -- The coffin cure / Alan E. Nourse -- Silenzia / Alan Nelson -- The agony of defeat / Jack C. Haldeman II -- The snowball effect / Katherine MacLean -- Pate de Foie Gras / Isaac Asimov -- The available data on the worp reaction / Lion Miller -- The mathenauts / Norman Kagan -- Coffee Break / D. F. Jones -- Putzi / Ludwig Bemelmans -- All things come to those who weight / Robert Grossbach -- Derm Fool / Theodore Sturgeon -- The heart on the other side / George Gamow -- Blackmail / Fred Hoyle -- A slight miscalculation / Ben Bova -- A subway named Mobius / A. J. Deutsch -- A sinister metamorphosis / Russell Baker -- Something up there likes me / Alfred Bester -- A prize for Edie / J. F. Bone -- Jury-rig / Avram Davidson -- Protection / Robert Sheckley -- The self-priming solid-state electronic chicken / Jon Lucas -- The night he cried / Fritz Leiber -- The big pat boom / Damon Knight -- The adventure of the solitary engineer / John M. Ford -- Report on "Grand Central Terminal" / Leo Szilard -- They'll do it every time / Cam Thornley -- No homelike place / Dian Girard -- Simworthy's circus / Larry T. Shaw -- A growing concern / Arnie Bateman -- The Vilbar party / Evelyn E. Smith -- A pestilence of psychoanalysts / J. O. Jeppson -- Death of a Foy / Isaac Asimov -- The merchant of Stratford / Frank Ramirez -- The wheel of time / Robert Arthur -- Quit zoomin' those hands through the air / Jack Finney -- The adventure of the global traveler / Anne Lear -- Pebble in time / Cynthia Goldstone and Avram Davidson -- Ahead of the Joneses / Al Sarrantonio -- The pinch hitters / George Alec Effinger -- The stunning science fiction caper / Gerald Macdow -- I, Claude / Charles Beaumont and Chad Oliver -- Out of control / Raylyn Moore -- Slush / K. J. Snow -- Judo and the art of self-government / Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. -- Lulu / Clifford D. Simak -- The splendid source / Richard Matheson -- MS. found in a Chinese fortune cookie / C. M. Kornbluth -- The several murders of Roger Ackroyd / Barry Malzberg -- The critique of impure reason / Poul Anderson -- One rejection too many / Patricia Nurse -- Bug getter / R. Bretnor -- The last Gothic / Jon L. Breen -- A benefactor of humanity / James T. Farrell -- The silver eggheads / Fritz Leiber -- Dry spell / Bill Pronzini -- MS fnd in a lbry / Hal Draper.
Responsibility:	chuckled over by Isaac Asimov and J.O. Jeppson ; introduction and headnotes by Isaac Asimov.

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An anthology of humorous science fiction in the form of stories, poems, and cartoons.

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