The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

First edition
Author	Isaac Asimov
Cover artist	Peter Rauch[1]
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	September 1976
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	211
ISBN	0-385-12198-9
OCLC	2202354
Dewey Decimal	813/.5/4
LC Class	PZ3.A8316 Bi PS3551.S5
Preceded by	Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
Followed by	The Winds of Change and Other Stories

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,^[2] 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.