The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories is a science fiction anthology written and edited by Isaac Asimov. Following the usual form for Asimov collections, it consists of eleven short stories and a poem surrounded by commentary describing how each came to be written. The stories are as follows (original publication in parentheses):

• "The Prime of Life" – poem (F&SF, October 1966)
• "Feminine Intuition" (F&SF, October 1969)
• "Waterclap" (Galaxy, May 1970)
• "That Thou Art Mindful of Him" (F&SF, May 1974)
• "Stranger in Paradise" (If, May–June 1974)
• "The Life and Times of Multivac" (New York Times Magazine, [Sunday] 5 January 1975)
• "The Winnowing" (Analog, February 1976)
• "The Bicentennial Man" (Judy-Lynn del Rey, ed., Stellar Science Fiction #2, February 1976)
• "Marching In" (High Fidelity magazine, April 1976)
• "Old-fashioned" (Bell Telephone Magazine, February 1976)
• "The Tercentenary Incident" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1976)
• "Birth of a Notion" (Amazing Stories, April 1976)

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

First edition
Author	Isaac Asimov
Cover artist	Peter Rauch[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	September 1976
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	211
ISBN	0-385-12198-9
OCLC	2202354
Dewey Decimal	813/.5/4
LC Class	PZ3.A8316 Bi PS3551.S5
Preceded by	Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
Followed by	The Winds of Change and Other Stories

Two of the stories, "Feminine Intuition" and "The Bicentennial Man", were inspired by Judy-Lynn del Rey. The latter was expanded into a novel, The Positronic Man (with Robert Silverberg), which formed the basis of the 1999 Touchstone Pictures and Columbia Pictures film Bicentennial Man.