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This unusual anthology offers twelve science fiction stories, each unique in that it introduced a new concept , including stories about antimatter, clones, collapsed stars, computers, starships, invisibility, and overpopulation. The central themes of all these science fiction firsts went on to have bigger, more involved treatments in later stories by many many authors. These concepts interested many authors, and their readers, and sparked future anthologies and novel series books.<br/>Contents:<br/>Introduction: To be the First essay by Isaac Asimov<br/>ANTIMATTER (1937) : Minus Planet / John D. Clark<br/>CLONE (1952) : Yesterday House / Fritz Leiber<br/>COLLAPSED STARS (1966) : Neutron Star / Larry Niven<br/>COSMIC DISASTER (1839) : The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion / Edgar Allan Poe<br/>EARTH INHERITED BY OTHER MAMMALS (1938) : The Faithful / Lester del Rey<br/>GENERATION STARSHIP (1940) : The Voyage that Lasted 600 Years / Don Wilcox<br/>HOME COMPUTER (1946) : A Logic Named Joe / Murray Leinster<br/>INVISIBILITY (1859) : What Was It? / Fitz-James O'Brien<br/>MICROCOSMIC WORLD (1858) : The Diamond Lens / Fitz-James O'Brien<br/>OVERPOPULATION (1954) : The Test / Richard Matheson<br/>SOLAR POWER FROM SATELLITES (1941) : Reason / Isaac Asimov<br/>TANK (1903) : The Land Ironclads / H.G. Wells<br/>.