Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories is an anthology edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander. It was first published by Taplinger in 1980.
Contents[]
- A Quick Dip
- The Last Answer (by Isaac Asimov)
- Package Deal (by Donald Franson)
- Lycanthrope (by Norman E. Hartman)
- Gemini 74 (by Jack Ritchie)
- Geever's Flight (by Charles E. Fritch)
- Lost and Found (by Phyllis Eisenstein)
- Pattern (by Fredric Brown)
- Discovering a New Earth (by Robert Mattingly)
- Varieties of Technological Experience (by Barry N. Malzberg)
- Listen, Love (by George Zebrowski and Jack Dann)
- That Strain Again (by Charles Sheffield)
- Take Me to Your Leader (by George Henry Smith)
- Put Your Head Upon My Knee (by Jack Ritchie)
- The Big Fix (by Robert F. Decker)
- Speed of the Cheetah, Roar of the Lion (by Harry Harrison)
- Just Call Me Irish (by Richard Wilson)
- Renaissance Man (by T. E. D. Klein)
- Pulpworld (by R. K. Lyon)
- The Other Tiger (by Arthur C. Clarke)
- Little William (by Patricia Matthews)
- Steel (by Alan Brennert)
- Appointment on the Barge (by Jack Ritchie)
- And So On, and So On (by James Tiptree, Jr.)
- Nellthu (by Anthony Boucher)
- Taste of Battle (by Donald Franson)
- Deflation 2001 (by Bob Shaw)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Love? (by Walt Liebscher as Walt Leibscher)
- Dog Star (by Mack Reynolds)
- The Great Judge (by A. E. van Vogt)
- 2001: A Love Story (by Paul Dellinger)
- Answer (by Fredric Brown)
- Hadj (by Harlan Ellison)
- Good Morning! This Is the Future (by Henry Slesar)
- A Shape in Time (by Anthony Boucher)
- Linkage (by Barry N. Malzberg)
- Murder in the Nth Degree (by R. A. Montana)
- Useful Phrases for the Tourist (by Joanna Russ)
- The Burning (by Theodore R. Cogswell)
- One Small Step (by Eric Vinicoff and Marcia Martin)
- Dead End (by Mack Reynolds)
- Paths (by Edward Bryant)
- Woman's Work (by Garen Drussaï)
- Death Double (by William F. Nolan)
- Tag (by Helen Urban)
- Nightmare in Time (by Fredric Brown)
- The Nature of the Place (by Robert Silverberg)
- True Love (by Isaac Asimov)
- The Game of the Name (by Alice Laurance)
- Down the Digestive Tract (by Robert Sheckley)
- Upon My Soul (by Jack Ritchie)
- Drawing Board (by Charles Spano, Jr.)
- Shell Shock (by Donald Franson)
- Speak (by Henry Slesar)
- Your Cruel Face (by Craig Strete)
- The Best-Laid Plans... (by Rick Conley)
- Devil to Pay (by Mack Reynolds)
- Who Else Could I Count On? (by Manly Wade Wellman)
- The Rat and the Snake (by A. E. van Vogt)
- The Finest Hunter in the World (by Harry Harrison)
- Life (by Dennis R. Caro)
- Love Story (by Eric Frank Russell)
- Exile in Lakehurst (by Robert Payes)
- The Bait (by Fritz Leiber)
- The Humanic Complex (by Ray Russell)
- Friends? (by Roberta Ghidalia)
- Take a Deep Breath (by Arthur C. Clarke)
- The Quest of the Infidel (by Sherwood Springer)
- Legal Rights for Germs? (by Joe Patrouch)
- Blood (by Fredric Brown)
- The Diana Syndrome (by R. A. Montana)
- Emergency Rations (by Theodore R. Cogswell)
- Buy Jupiter! (by Isaac Asimov)
- The Old Man (by Henry Slesar)
- Exile's Greeting (by Roland Green)
- The Biography Project (by H. L. Gold)
- The Grapes of the Rath (by Jan Howard Finder)
- Mr. Lupescu (by Anthony Boucher)
- What I Did During My Park Vacation (by Ruth Berman)
- A Fragment of Manuscript (by Harry Harrison)
- The Boy with Five Fingers (by James Gunn)
- The King of Beasts (by Philip José Farmer)
- Displaced Person (by Eric Frank Russell)
- A Clone at Last (by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg)
- X Marks the Pedwalk (by Fritz Leiber)
- The Mission (by Arthur Tofte)
- Proof (by F. M. Busby)
- Dreamworld (by Isaac Asimov)
- The Reunion (by Paul J. Nahin)
- The Futile Flight of John Arthur Benn (by Richard Wilson)
- Servants of the Lord (by James Stevens)
- Mattie Harris, Galactic Spy (by Rachel Cosgrove Payes)
- Changeover (by Juleen Brantingham)
- Hometown (by Richard Wilson)
- The Penalty (by Henry Slesar)
- The Pill (by Maggie Nadler)
- The Final Battle (by Harry Harrison)
- Earthbound (by Lester del Rey)
- Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation (by Larry Niven)
- The Voice in the Garden (by Harlan Ellison)
- If Eve Had Failed to Conceive (by Edward Wellen)