title: People Of The Century: One Hundred Men And Women Who Shaped The Last One Hundred Years
author: Editors of Time-Life Books
description: <b>Dan Rather</b> has been the anchor/managing editor of the CBS Evening News since March of 1981 and has been on the scene of major news stories around the world. In addition he anchors the CBS broadcast <i>48 Hours</i> and contributes to the CBS broadcast <i>60 Minutes II.</i>
zlib_text: **The Bicentennial Man & Other Stories**
  
   **Book Jacket**
  
  **THE BICENTENNIAL MAN**
  
  and Other Stories
  
   **Isaac Asimov**
  
   **Contents**
  
  The Prime of Life 2
  
  Feminine Intuition 4
  
  Waterclap 16
  
  That Thou Art Mindful of Him 33
  
  Stranger in Paradise 46
  
  The life and Times of Multivac 60
  
  The Winnowing 67
  
  The Bicentennial Man 72
  
  Marching In 92
  
  Old-fashioned 96
  
  The Tercentenary Incident 101
  
  Birth of a Notion 109
  
   _Dedicated to:_
  
   _Judy-Lynn del Rey,_
  
   _And the swath she is cutting in our field_
  
  Here I am with another collection of science fiction stories, and I sit here
  and think, with more than a little astonishment, that I have been writing and
  publishing science fiction now for just three-eighths of a century. This isn’t
  bad for someone who only admits to being in his late youth-or a little over
  thirty, if pinned down.
  
  It seems longer than that, I imagine, to most people who have tried to follow
  me from book to book and from field to field. As the flood of words continues
  ye