title: Isaac Asimov's Father's Day
author: Various
description: <DIV>Gardner Dozois was the long-time editor of <I>Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine</I>. He won the Hugo Award for Best Editor over a dozen times during his tenure, and currently holds the position of Editor Emeritus with the magazine.  </div>
zlib_text: 1\. Anniversary
  
  
  2\. Cal
  
  
  3\. One Night of Song
  
  
  4\. Profession
  
  
  5\. Sucker Bait
  
  
  6\. The Last Question
  
  
  7\. The Secret Sense
  
  
  Isaac Asimov -
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Anniversary
  
  
  The annual ritual was all set.
  
  
  It was the turn of Moore’s house this year, of course, and Mrs. Moore and the
  children had resignedly gone to her mother’s for the
  
  
  Warren Moore surveyed the room with a faint smile. Only Mark Brandon’s
  enthusiasm kept it going at the first, but he himself had come to like this
  mild remembrance. It came with age, he supposed; twenty additional years of
  it. He bad grown paunchy, thin-haired, soft-jowled, and-worst of all-
  sentimental.
  
  
  So all the windows were polarized into complete darkness and the drapes were
  drawn. Only occasional stipples of wall were illuminated, thus celebrating the
  poor lighting and the terrible isolation of that day of wreckage long ago.
  
  
  There were spaceship rations in sticks and tubes on the table and, of course,
  in the center an unopened bottle of sparklin