Asimov's Mysteries

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Asimov's Mysteries
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Isaac Asimov
Cover artist	James McMullan^[1]
Language	English
Genre	Mystery, Science fiction
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	1968
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	xii + 240
ISBN	0-385-09063-3

Asimov's Mysteries, published in 1968, is a collection of 14 short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov, almost all of them science fiction mysteries (although, as Asimov admits in the introduction, some are only borderline). The stories were all originally published in magazines between 1954 and 1967, except for "Marooned off Vesta", Asimov's first published story, which first appeared in 1939.

Four stories in the collection feature the character of Wendell Urth, who is a leading extra-terrologist (an expert on alien worlds and life originating on them). Urth is eccentric in that he has a phobia of all mechanical forms of transport (an exaggeration of Asimov's own aversion to flying). Physically Urth resembles Norbert Wiener.

Urth appears in the stories when he is consulted by an agent of the Terrestrial Bureau of Investigation, H. Seton Davenport, in cases which have him baffled – a parallel with the way in which Inspector Lestrade consults Sherlock Holmes. In a fifth story in the collection, "The Dust of Death", Asimov shows Davenport a generosity that Conan Doyle never extended to Lestrade in demonstrating the former's ability to solve a case for himself without Urth's assistance.

"The Singing Bell" (1955), a Wendell Urth story
"The Talking Stone" (1955), a Wendell Urth story
"What's in a Name?" (1956)
"The Dying Night" (1956), novelette, a Wendell Urth story
"Pâté de Foie Gras" (1956)
"The Dust of Death" (1957)
"A Loint of Paw" (1957)
"I'm in Marsport Without Hilda" (1957), a bowdlerized version of this story appeared in the collection Nine Tomorrows
"Marooned off Vesta" (1939)
"Anniversary" (1959), a Multivac story and a sequel to "Marooned off Vesta"
"Obituary" (1959)
"Star Light" (1962)
"The Key" (1966), novelette, a Wendell Urth story
"The Billiard Ball" (1967), novelette

Reception

Criticizing the Urth stories as "rather contrived and not particularly entertaining", Algis Budrys said that the collection was "a poor book because it is a book about clevernesses, and clevernesses are not Isaac's long suit".^[2]

Edward Wellen wrote a pastiche story featuring Urth, "Murder in the Urth Degree," that was included in the 1989 volume Foundation's Friends.

References

^ "Asimov's Mysteries entry at isfdb.org".
^ Budrys, Algis (July 1968). "Galaxy Bookshelf". Galaxy Science Fiction. p. 163.

Sources

Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 21. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.

External links

Asimov's Mysteries title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Asimov's Mysteries at Open Library

v t e Asimov's Mysteries by Isaac Asimov
"The Singing Bell" "The Talking Stone" "What's in a Name?" "The Dying Night" "Pâté de Foie Gras" "The Dust of Death" "A Loint of Paw" "I'm in Marsport Without Hilda" "Marooned off Vesta" "Anniversary" "Obituary" "Star Light" "The Key" "The Billiard Ball"

v t e Mystery collections by Isaac Asimov
Black Widowers	Tales of the Black Widowers (1974) More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976) Casebook of the Black Widowers (1980) Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984) Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1990) The Return of the Black Widowers (2003)
Larry	The Key Word and Other Mysteries (1977) The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries (1985)
Other mysteries	Asimov's Mysteries (1968) The Union Club Mysteries (1983) The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov (1986)
List of short stories by Isaac Asimov

Short-story collections by Isaac Asimov

I, Robot (1950)
The Martian Way and Other Stories (1955)
Earth Is Room Enough (1957)
Nine Tomorrows (1959)
The Rest of the Robots (1964)
Through a Glass, Clearly (1967)
Asimov's Mysteries (1968)
Nightfall and Other Stories (1969)
The Early Asimov (1972)
The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973)
Tales of the Black Widowers (1974)
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975)
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976)
More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976)
The Key Word and Other Mysteries (1977)
Casebook of the Black Widowers (1980)
The Complete Robot (1982)
The Winds of Change and Other Stories (1983)
The Union Club Mysteries (1983)
Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984)
The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries (1985)
The Edge of Tomorrow (1985)
The Alternate Asimovs (1986)
The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov (1986)
The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986)
Science Fiction by Asimov (1986)
Robot Dreams (1986)
Azazel (1988)
The Asimov Chronicles (1989)
Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1990)
Robot Visions (1990)
The Complete Stories, Volume 1 (1990)
The Complete Stories, Volume 2 (1992)
Gold (1995)
Magic (1996)
The Return of the Black Widowers (2003)

List of short stories by Isaac Asimov

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