I read this book (and all of Asimov's autobiographies) when they were first printed and have read each one at least twice. If you like Asimov's "gentle reader" writing style, reading his autobiographies will be fun for you, more so if you want a view into a busy, obsessed writer's life and the forces that shaped him.

These books are frank (especially "I, Asimov"), interesting, and very often amusing.

"In Memory Yet Green" and "In Joy Still Felt" are large tomes, totalling about 1550pp together.

For a biography of Asimov, you can't do better than these. As he mentioned in his biographies, there's not much in the way of action or big events in these books. It's a long trip through all the words, but the trip is enjoyable.

Asimov states well the historical probabilities of Genesis, but simplifies it beyond the area of possability.

The J and P documents are well stated there, but if that were the whole story between Genesis 1 and 2 creation stories, then why did one of the accounts become apocraphal (much like the Keys of Enoch.)?

Other than that, Asimov did a superb job in laying out Genesis as it was, a beautiful myth.

the book of the invocation of the holy spirit was an terrific book for an advanced wicca.. people should buy this if they are inerested in this stuff

My first Issac Asimov book i read was puzzles of the black widows and after that I read the rest of the series and was hooked on Asimov's works. I like his style of writing and his different times his storys are set. The title Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Crime Stories of the 19th Century is a bit misleading as many of the stories are written by different authors. I still loved the book and recommend it to everyone.

If you are looking for a collection of tales about Christmas, even in the far future where its meaning is lost in the past, well, this is the book. But, if you are looking for stories of hard science fiction about very imaginative futures, you should look for another book. Paulo Sunao, from BRAZIL

Something to please everyone here. I enjoyed some stories more than others as you will. Some really enjoyable and thoughtful writing here.

This another in the "Isaac Asimov's" series that collects stories from his magazines and publishes them on a comment theme. This theme is sexuality in science fiction -- no, not about sex and robots as the cover suggests; yes, I was disappointed by that. Of the ten stories, five are great -- they flow well, the characters make you care, the dialog is realistic, and the plot ties together well throughout. These five are: Brian Stableford's "Bedside Conversations" about sex change and childbirth in unlikely bodies; Peni R. Griffin's "The Goat Man" about how the beastly man is not always the beast your mother told you to avoid; Connie Willis' "Even the Queen" about alternatives to "naturalness" and the willingness to forgo it for less pain; Tanith Lee's "Zelle's Thursday" which is thankfully about robots and domestic problems of human beings; and finally Deborah Wessell's "The Last One to Know" that has shows gender extending into marital roles in surprising ways. The other five are either a bit too confusing, a bit too long, or a bit too, well, much for my personal tastes -- that's coming from a BDSM erotica folks!

Isaac Asimov's Valentines is yet another high quality collection of short science fiction
stories that were first published in Asimov's wonderful magazine. The editor of
this collection, Gardner Dozois, is one of the most highly
skilled working today (he also edits the annual collection
entitled The Years Best Science Fiction). Dozois has a keen
instinct when it comes to putting together thoughtful and
varied anthologies. You can't please all of the people all of the time, but I always find at
least a few true gems in each of Dozois's endeavors. Valentines is composed of ten stories
that all gain their impetus from the emotion of love. Each plot weaves imagination and
emotion into a coherent whole, although some succeed better than others.
I particularly enjoyed No Love in all of Dwingeloo, by Tony Daniel and Chemistry by James
Patrick Kelly. Other authors include Connie Willis, Robert Silverberg and Terry Bisson.

Not a collection of stories by Isaac Asimov himself, but eight stories by various authors, all previously published in the periodical ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION. Like all good speculative fiction, these stories ask the question "what if?"

What if a vampire went to London to join the 1940s war effort? "Jack" by Connie Willis portrays a vampire using his unusual abilities for the good of humankind. The horrors of bureaucracy make the horrors of war look almost inviting by comparison.

What if vampires are a separate species that keeps tabs on the human race? Other writers have done it, but seldom with the grace of David Redd in "The Old Man of Munington." Two young girls and the Old Man himself follow a younger vampire's plans to eliminate a possible risk to the human race the vampires watch and guard.

Perhaps the most chilling question and answer comes in "My Brother's Keeper" by Pat Cadigan: What if vampires support inner-city drug abuse because they have something to gain? These are vampires at their most terrifying -- not tuxedo-clad fiends in some isolated Carpathian castle, but men and women who look like the rest of us, nesting right in our midst and drawing their power from the things we fear most.

Other stories include Tanith Lee's haunting "Winter Flowers," a story of vampire mercenaries who encounter a castle of creatures even stranger than they; "A Surfeit of Melancholic Humors" by Sharon N. Farber, a charming and somewhat medical tale of vampires in seventeenth-century plague time; and Susan Palwick's "Ever After," which picks out the darkness of fairy tale conventions and blends it into the darkness of the vampire mythos. All the stories are good; some are excellent. All balance vampire fiction conventions with enough of the unexpected to keep us guessing -- pleasantly so.

I reckon the book gives a very good measure of Sir Isaac Newton's interests in philosophy. One shoulk ask why philosophy? Well we have to say that this writings contain some of the best arguments ever used in defense of God's existence. Moreover, the "Four letters to Mr. Richard Bentley" contain what should be considered the argument of "imperfection" for the existence of a Voluntary Agent in the Universe. Nobody before Newton dared to say that from the imperfection of this world it follows that God neccessarily exists. This argument will be, of course, a great subject for the criticism of Leibniz and Descartes' disciples. Then again, the book contains a very good paper on the natural and un-natural motion of celestial bodies, a very good treatise in itself on inertia and gravity, which makes us wonder whether our modern view on the universe is a Newtonian or a Cartesian one. After all the theme is very actual and it has not lost it's strenght.