Laughing Space is an anthology edited by Isaac and Janet Asimov (as J. O. Jeppson). It was first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1982.
Contents[]
- Beginnings — Comic?
- Cartoon by Ed Fisher
- A Fuller Explanation of Original Sin (poem by Isaac Asimov and Janet Asimov)
- Cartoon by Nick
- Cartoon by Ed Fisher
- Et Tu (poem by John Stallings)
- Cartoon by Ruge
- Creation (poem by L. Sprague de Camp)
- Cartoon by Ed Arno
- Stag Night, Paleolithic (poem by Ogden Nash)
- Cartoon by Ross
- An Epicurean Fragment (poem by Robert Hillyer)
- B.C. cartoon by Hart
- Onward — and Upward? — with Terran Civilization
- B.C. cartoon by Hart
- Spaced Out (story by Russell Baker)
- The Coffin Cure (story by Alan E. Nourse)
- Silenzia (story by Alan Nelson)
- The Agony of Defeat (story by Jack C. Haldeman II)
- Epitaph on Ceres (poem by Sherwood Springer)
- Epitaph on Rigel XII (poem by Sherwood Springer)
- The Snowball Effect (story by Katherine MacLean)
- Pâté de Foie Gras (story by Isaac Asimov)
- Cartoon by Ed Nofziger
- The Available Data on the Worp Reaction (story by Lion Miller)
- Cartoon by Chas. Addams
- Imaginary Numbers in a Real Garden (poem by Gerald Jonas)
- The Mathenauts (story by Norman Kagan)
- Coffee Break (story by D. F. Jones)
- Cartoon by Lorenz
- Putzi (story by Ludwig Bemelmans)
- All Things Come to Those Who Weight (story by Robert Grossbach)
- Derm Fool (story by Theodore Sturgeon)
- The Heart on the Other Side (story by George Gamow)
- Blackmail (story by Fred Hoyle)
- A Slight Miscalculation (story by Ben Bova)
- Cartoon by S. Harris
- A Subway Named Möbius (story by A. J. Deutsch)
- Cartoon by Virgil Partch
- A Sinister Metamorphosis (story by Russell Baker)
- Something Up There Likes Me (story by Alfred Bester)
- A Prize for Edie (story by J. F. Bone)
- Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" (poem by Randall Garrett)
- Cartoon by Hoest
- Cartoon by Dickinson
- Cartoon by Al Kaufman
- Cartoon by Alan Dunn
- Comedy on — or from — Other Worlds
- Cartoon by Mazonowicz
- Neptune (poem by Sansoucy Kathenor as Sansoucy North)
- Pluto (poem by Sansoucy Kathenor as Sansoucy North)
- Jury-Rig (story by Avram Davidson)
- Cartoon by S. Harris
- Protection (story by Robert Sheckley)
- The Self-Priming Solid-State Electronic Chicken (story by Jon Lucas)
- The Night He Cried (story by Fritz Leiber)
- The Big Pat Boom (story by Damon Knight)
- The Adventure of the Solitary Engineer (story by John M. Ford)
- B.C. cartoon by Hart
- B.C. cartoon by Hart
- Cartoon by Richter
- Cartoon by W. Miller
- Cartoon by Lorenz
- Cartoon by Lorenz
- Cartoon by Lorenz
- Cartoon by Stevenson
- Report on "Grand Central Terminal" (story by Leo Szilard)
- Ad Astra, Al (poem by Mary W. Stanton)
- They'll Do It Every Time (story by Cam Thornley)
- No Homelike Place (story by Dian Girard)
- Cartoon by Robt. Day
- Simworthy's Circus (story by Larry T. Shaw)
- A Growing Concern (story by Arnie Bateman)
- Cartoon by Gahan Wilson
- Cartoon by Gahan Wilson
- Cartoon by Gahan Wilson
- The Vilbar Party (story by Evelyn E. Smith)
- A Pestilence of Psychoanalysts (story by Janet Asimov as J. O. Jeppson)
- Cartoon by Gahan Wilson
- Cartoon by Gahan Wilson
- Death of a Foy (story by Isaac Asimov)
- Wacky Time Travel Problems
- The One Thing Lacking (poem by Isaac Asimov)
- The Merchant of Stratford (story by Frank Ramirez)
- The Wheel of Time (story by Robert Arthur)
- Quit Zoomin' Those Hands Through the Air (story by Jack Finney)
- The Adventure of the Global Traveler (story by Anne Lear)
- Pebble in Time (story by Cynthia Goldstone and Avram Davidson)
- Ahead of the Joneses (story by Al Sarrantonio)
- The Pinch Hitters (story by George Alec Effinger)
- Swift Completion (poem by Brad Cahoon)
- Cartoon by Stevenson
- "Writing (The Crowning Heights of Civilization) and Criticism (The Pits)"
- Cartoon by Herbert Goldberg
- B.C. cartoon by Hart
- Cartoon by Dawes
- Cartoon by Bruce Ackerman
- A Skald's Lament (poem by L. Sprague de Camp)
- The Stunning Science Fiction Caper (story by Thomas N. Scortia as Gerald Macdow)
- I, Claude (story by Charles Beaumont and Chad Oliver)
- Out of Control (story by Raylyn Moore)
- Cartoon by S. Harris
- Slush (story by K. J. Snow)
- An Unsolicited Submission (poem by Deborah Crawford)
- Judo and the Art of Self-Government (story by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.)
- Lulu (story by Clifford D. Simak)
- Cartoon by S. Harris
- The Splendid Source (story by Richard Matheson)
- MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie (story by C. M. Kornbluth)
- The Several Murders of Roger Ackroyd (story by Barry Malzberg)
- The Critique of Impure Reason (story by Poul Anderson)
- Cartoon by Ed Fisher
- One Rejection Too Many (story by Patricia Nurse)
- Peanuts cartoon by Schulz
- Bug Getter (story by R. Bretnor)
- The Last Gothic (story by Jon L. Breen)
- A Benefactor of Humanity (story by James T. Farrell)
- The Silver Eggheads (story by Fritz Leiber)
- Adverbs (poem by E. Y. Harburg)
- Dry Spell (story by Bill Pronzini)
- Cartoon by Frascino
- The End?
- Cartoon by Norment
- The Odds-On Favorite (poem by E. Y. Harburg)
- Cartoon by Dana Fradon
- Cartoon by Lorenz
- Cartoon by Ed Nofziger
- Cartoon by D. Reilly
- B.C. cartoon by Hart
- MS Fnd in a Lbry (story by Hal Draper)
- B.C. cartoon by Hart
- B.C. cartoon by Hart