Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 7 (1945)

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 7

First edition cover
Editors	Isaac Asimov Martin H. Greenberg
Cover artist	Antonio Bernal
Language	English
Series	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	DAW Books
Publication date	July 1982
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Preceded by	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 (1944)
Followed by	Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 8 (1946)

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) is an English language science fiction short story collection, edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg. It is part of a series which attempts to list the great science fiction stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. They date the Golden Age as beginning in 1939 and lasting until 1963. The book was later reprinted as the first half of Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Fourth Series with the second half being Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 8 (1946).

This volume was originally published by DAW books in July 1982.

Stories

• "The Waveries" by Fredric Brown
• "The Piper's Son" by Lewis Padgett
• "Wanted—An Enemy" by Fritz Leiber
• "Blind Alley" by Isaac Asimov
• "Correspondence Course" by Raymond F. Jones
• "First Contact" by Murray Leinster
• "The Vanishing Venusians" by Leigh Brackett
• "Into Thy Hands" by Lester del Rey
• "Camouflage" by Henry Kuttner
• "The Power" by Murray Leinster
• "Giant Killer" by A. Bertram Chandler
• "What You Need" by Henry Kuttner (made into an episode of TV series The Twilight Zone of the same name)
• "De Profundis" by Murray Leinster
• "Pi in the Sky" by Fredric Brown

Reception

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 7 came in 14th in the 1983 Locus Award for Best Anthology.