Korte verhalen waarin op realistische wijze de tegenstelling tussen het leven van alledag en de heimelijke dromen en aspiraties van de mens worden beschreven.

From backyard miracles to cosmic conundrums, enter the incredible world of Isaac Asimov. Spanning twenty-three years of Asimov's amazing career, these stories display to the full the exhilarating power of one of science fiction's most astonishing writers. Each tale is accompanied by Asimov's own intriguing account of how and why it came to be Darwinian Pool Room (1950) Day of the Hunters (1950) Shah Guido G. (1951) Button, Button (1953) The Monkey's Finger (1953) Everest (1953) The Pause (1954) Let's Not (1954) Each an Explorer (1956) Blank! (1957) Does a Bee Care? (1957) Silly Asses (1958) Buy Jupiter (1976) A Statue for Father (1959) Rain, Rain, Go Away (1959) Founding Father (1965) Exile to Hell (1968) Key Item [Multivac] (1968) The Proper Study (1968) 2430 A.D. (1970) The Greatest Asset (1972) Take a Match (1972) Thiotimoline to the Stars [Thiotimoline 4] (1973) Light Verse (1973)

Collects twelve short stories of the talented South African writer, many originally published in such magazines as The New Yorker and Harper's and including the celebrated "Town and Country Lovers"

How I Became a Holy Mother

Coronet, 1978. British mass market paperback. Collection of stories; the author's first book.

Records one woman's response to the love-hate relationships, inhibitions and selfconcerns of men and women.

Seven stories from South Africa's finest living writer that distil the essence of what has been happening in that country in recent years, through people and landscapes so intensely and evocatively drawn that they seem to burn a hole in the page. --

This collection of short stories covers 25 years of the author's career. By the author of "Crimes of Conscience".

Seven stories tell of a tragic love affair, a teenager's involvement with an older man, a struggle to quit smoking, and a woman who discovers she is in love with an old friend