Asimov's Mysteries. Asimov,Isaac. Panthers Books:London. First published in 1968

Asimov's mysteries starting from 1958 with his Singing Bell to his The Billiard Ball are testimony to this brilliant writers ability to see science in the most foresightful way. They are all short stories, each one a gem, as they shine with the resplendence of his imagination.  His first storypredates the first landing on the moon made in 1969. This story set atleast 10 years before that describes the lunar surface so accurately, that one wonders, 'How did he know?' Singing stones brought from the lunar surface described by Dr.Urth, a character as '  ....it was as though a million harps had sounded a mile away...incredibly sweet and pathetic and tumultous at once'..., are brought into a story of murder as an important component in solving the murder. In 'The Talking Stone', spationautical engineers live 70 million miles away from the Earth...hyperatomics, gamma fogged semireflector, silicony- a rock being that speaks the language of humans - Asimov brings a distant possibility right before our eyes.Mass Transference - this forms the theme of his story 'The Dying Night' wherein, Dr.Urth solves the murder of a man at his lab.Pate de Foie Gras pokes knowledgeable fun at science. Here, the goose  lays the golden egg by a process of a live nuclear reactor and is a tongue-in-cheek story meant to laugh at human ability to believe everything as a miracle.The other stories testify to an exclamation a character makes 'Gee, it is nice to be a science fiction writer'.