Is this the most jam-packed collection that I own? Probably! Today we might call some of these stories flash fiction or microfiction, but in 1980 the publishers just decided to call them "short short." I am personally very impressed that Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander fit an introductory essay plus 100 very short stories in to 293 pages.
Take a look at the table of contents at ISFDB. It is absolutely a who's who of all stars of the genre at the time, including C.M. Kornbluth, Anthony Boucher, Roger Zelany, Alfred Bester, Damon Knight, Larry Nevin, Frederick Pohl, Ben Bova, Joanna Russ, and George R. R. Martin, among others. In addition to the fittingly-titled introduction "The Science Fiction Blowgun," Asimov also contributed four very short pieces of fiction to this anthology. We can all admit that Asimov walked so that Stephen King could run, right?
The tagline "the most spectacular ideas can fit into the tiniest of spaces" is one hell of a hook. I definitely need to crack this one open and see if that holds up all these years later.
