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From: wildnorth  13-Oct 06:57 
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sometime in the late seventies or early 80s I read a book that I thought was called something like..."1001 short short sci fi stories".  It was edited (I think) by Isaac Asimov and the stories were sometimes no more than a page long.  some of them were fantastic and have stayed with me all this time although the names of the authors haven't.  There was one called Sanity Claus about a child having a 'development' test as it responded to things in Santa's sack.  There was one about a machine that could make anything you asked for.  In another - called Trace - a lost motorist is taken in by a kindly old man who turns out the be the devil, performing his sole kind act for the century.  I remember one had an world ending scenario brought on by a writing competition between bob silverberg and asimov. I have been looking without success for it for a long time now and assume I have misremembered the anthology's name.  can ANYONE help me??

 

 
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From: Rocket_Scientist  13-Oct 15:59 
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WildNorth:

Go to "Advanced Search" in the red bar at the top of the page and enter "Asimov" as author and "100 short" in the title. You will see all the ABE available copies of 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories and 100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories. Hopefully one of the vendors will have listed a few titles as included and you will be able to determine which book you want (unless you are like me and want to have them both). I have the SF title, but I'm not sure about the Fantasy.

edited for typo in titles.
   

RocSci


Edited 13/10/2009 16:01 ET by Rocket_Scientist
 
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From: Rocambole  14-Oct 01:39 
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It's the SF one - I have it.

Rocambole
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