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Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 2 (1940) is the second volume in the Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories series. Published in 1979, this volume includes sixteen stories which were originally published during the year 1940, each presented with an introduction by editors Martin Greenberg and Isaac Asimov. The editors had also hoped to include an additional three stories by Robert Heinlein, but were unable to acquire the reprint rights.

Originally published by DAW books as a small paperback, this volume has also been published in hardback form as the second half of Bonanza Books' Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction: First Series. In 2002,Dorset Press came out with their own version under the title Isaac Asimov Presents Great Science Fiction Stories of 1940.

Contents

"The Dwindling Sphere" by Willard Hawkins
"The Automatic Pistol" by Fritz Leiber
"Hindsight" by Jack Williamson
"Postpaid to Paradise" by Robert Arthur
"Into the Darkness" by Ross Rocklynne
"Dark Mission" by Lester del Rey
"It" by Theodore Sturgeon
"Vault of the Beast" by A. E. van Vogt
"The Impossible Highway" by Oscar J. Friend
"Quietus" by Ross Rocklynne
"Strange Playfellow" by Isaac Asimov
"The Warrior Race" by L. Sprague de Camp
"Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates
"Butyl and the Breather" by Theodore Sturgeon
"The Exalted" by L. Sprague de Camp
"Old Man Mulligan" by P. Schuyler Miller

Additionally, the editors include comments on three stories for which they were not able to acquire the reprint rights. Each of these stories is by Robert Heinlein, and each is available in Heinlein's The Past Through Tomorrow (1967).

"Requiem"
"Coventry"
"Blowups Happen"