Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) is an American collection of short stories, edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, originally published by DAW books in March 1979.

According to DAW, The Great SF Stories 1 (1939) "is the first in what Isaac Asimov plans to be a definitive series of sf anthologies, covering year by year the truly memorable stories that have progressively brought science fiction to its present prominence".

[2] The second volume of the series is Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 2 (1940).

Writing for Strange Horizons in 2010, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro described the series as essential read for modern SF fans, stating that "if we wish to fully understand today's work, we need to be at least somewhat familiar with its ancestry."

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