Opus 200

Excerpt from The Gods Themselves Excerpt from ABCs of Space Excerpt from How Did We Find Out About Comets? Excerpt from Comets and Meteors Excerpt from Alpha Centauri, the Nearest Star Excerpt from The Collapsing Universe "The Bicentennial Man" Excerpt from How Did We Find Out About Numbers? Excerpt from "Skewered!" Excerpt from Light Excerpt from Please Explain Excerpt from Worlds Within Worlds "Good Taste" Excerpt from How Did We Find Out About Germs? Excerpt from The Ends of the Earth Excerpt from More Words of Science Excerpt from The Land of Canaan Excerpt from The Shaping of France Excerpt from The Golden Door Excerpt from Eyes on the Universe "The Dream" "Lost in Non-Translation" "Light Verse" "The Monsters We Have Lived With" Excerpt from Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor Excerpt from The Sensuous Dirty Old Man Excerpt from Lecherous Limericks Excerpt from More Lecherous Limericks Excerpt from Still More Lecherous Limericks Excerpt from Earth: Our Crowded Spaceship Excerpt from Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare Excerpt from Asimov's Annotated Don Juan Excerpt from Asimov's Annotated Paradise Lost Excerpt from Familiar Poems Annotated Excerpt from Asimov's Sherlockian Limericks Excerpt from Tales of the Black Widowers "Earthset and Evening Star" "The Thirteenth Day of Christmas" Excerpt from Murder at the ABA Excerpt from Before the Golden Age "Little Brothers" "My Second Hundred Books" What does a writer who produced two hundred books do with his spare time? If his name is Isaac Asimov, he writes - on any and every subject of interest to his fertile mind. Informative, amusing, timely, and provocative - OPUS 200 is Asimov at his sparkling best in selections carefully culled from his second hundred books. Drawing on novels (which have won both the Hugo and Nebula awards), on short stories, serious essays, and on children's books, Asimov addresses himself to everything from Black Holes to biblical Canaan. Here is a taste of the intelligence, the craftsmanship, and the ingenuity that have made Issac Asimov the most prolific writer of science fiction in the world.