Series: Probability Zero

Series: Probability Zero Series Record # 9857
Note: A regular department in all incarnations of "Astounding/Analog". Harry Harrison wrote the following about the origins of the department in the John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology: "In the early 1940s, in Astounding, there was a small department called Probability Zero! that ran short-short stories. Or items. Or lies. Things. These things were usually funny and always impossible - echoing the description of the title."
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Probability Zero
- Some Curious Effects of Time Travel (1942) [SF] by L. Sprague de Camp also appeared as:
  - Variant: The Effects of Time Travel (1942)
- Pig Trap (1942) [SF] by Malcolm Jameson also appeared as:
  - Translation:
    Ловушка для свиней^?Lovushka dla sviney
    [Russian] (2015) [as by
    Малькольм Джеймисон^?Malcolm Dzejmison
    ]
  - Translation:
    Pułapka na świnie^?Pulapka na swinie
    [Polish] (2019)
- Time Pussy (1942) [SF] by Isaac Asimov also appeared as:
  - Variant: Time Pussy (1942) [as by George E. Dale]
  - Translation: Gatto Temporale [Italian] (1973)
  - Translation: Chrono-minets [French] (1975)
  - Translation: Tijdpoesje [Dutch] (1977)
  - Translation:
    Időcica^?Idocica
    Idooecica
    [Hungarian] (1995)
  - Translation:
    Specie dispărută^?Specie disparuta
    [Romanian] (1995)
  - Translation:
    Pisicuța temporală^?Pisicuta temporala
    [Romanian] (1998)
- "The Strange Case of the Missing Hero" (1942) [SF] by Frank Holby
- That Mysterious Bomb Raid (1942) [SF] by Wilson Tucker [only as by Bob Tucker]
- The Qwerty of Hrothgar (1942) [SF] by R. Creighton Buck
- Eat, Drink and Be Wary (1942) [SF] by Ray Bradbury
- The Floater (1942) [SF] by Selden G. Thomas
- De Gustibus (1942) [SF] by Randall Hale
- About Quarrels, About the Past (1942) [SF] by John R. Pierce [only as by John Pierce, M.S.]
- The Image of Annihilation (1942) [SF] by Jack Speer
- Destiny and Uncle Louie (1942) [SF] by Joseph Gilbert
- The Anecdote of the Negative Wugug (1942) [SF] by L. Sprague de Camp also appeared as:
  - Variant: The Negative Wugug (1942)
- Probability Zero! (Astounding, August 1942) (1942) [ES] by John Carnell and L. Sprague de Camp and Joseph Gilbert and Jack Speer [only as by Ted Carnell and L. Sprague de Camp and Joseph Gilbert and Jack Speer]
- Time Marches On (1942) [SF] by John Carnell [only as by Ted Carnell]
- Avenue of Escape (1942) [SF] by Hal Clement
- Eureka! (1942) [SF] by Malcolm Jameson also appeared as:
  - Translation: Eureka! [Polish] (2020)
- The Sleep That Slaughtered (1942) [SF] by Harry Warner, Jr.
- The Green Sphere (1942) [SF] by Dennis Tucker
- A Matter of Eclipses (1942) [SF] by P. Schuyler Miller
- Probability Zero! (Astounding, November 1942) (1942) [ES] by Hal Clement and Malcolm Jameson and P. Schuyler Miller and Dennis Tucker and Harry Warner, Jr.
- True Fidelity (1942) [SF] by William M. Danner
- The Human Bomb (1942) [SF] by Stanley Woolston
- Valadusia (1942) [SF] by Jack Bivins
- O'Ryan, the Invincible (1942) [SF] by T. D. Whitenack, Jr.
- My Word! (1942) [SF] by Frank J. Smythe
- Take-Off (1942) [SF] by L. M. Jensen
- Blue Ice (1943) [SF] by Henry Kuttner
- Efficiency (1943) [SF] by Malcolm Jameson [also as by Colin Keith]
- Noise Is Beautiful! (1943) [SF] by Fox B. Holden
- The Anecdote of the Movable Ears (1943) [SF] by L. Sprague de Camp also appeared as:
  - Variant: Movable Ears (1943)
- Corpus Delicti (1943) [SF] by Henry Kuttner
- Miraculous Fluid (1943) [SF] by Wilson Tucker [only as by Bob Tucker]
- Downfall (1943) [SF] by Malcolm Jameson
- Camouflage (1943) [SF] by John Aiken [only as by John K. Aiken]
- Ultimate Opposition (1943) [SF] by Roscoe E. Wright
- "A Snitch in Time" (1943) [SF] by D. C. King
- Der Fuehrer's Base (1943) [SF] by George O. Smith
- You Said It! (1943) [SF] by Charles Ben Davis
- Finance (1943) [SF] by David Charles
- Y = Sin X (1943) [SF] by Harold Wooster
- Universal Solvent (1943) [SF] by Clayton James MacBeth
- And Watch the Fountains (1943) [SF] by Ray Bradbury
- Probability Zero! (Astounding, September 1943) (1943) [ES] by Ray Bradbury and David Charles and Charles Ben Davis and Clayton James MacBeth and George O. Smith and Harold Wooster
- Sourdough (1944) [SF] by George Holman
- Light Trap (1944) [SF] by Jerry Shelton
- Picture from Tokyo (1944) [SF] by H. O. Hoadley
- The Vacuumulator (1944) [SF] by Malcolm Jameson
- Cash on the Dimension (1944) [SF] by Ray Karden
- Contagion (1944) [SF] by George Holman
- Secret Weapon (1944) [SF] by Robert Browning (II)
- The Absence of Heat (1944) [SF] by Randall Garrett [only as by Gordon Garrett]
- The Case of the Invincible Pirate (1944) [SF] by Edward Shulman
- The Thirty-First of June (1944) [SF] by Frank Holby
- A Matter of Relativity (1944) [SF] by P. Anderson
- Icicle Built for Groo (1944) [SF] by John H. Pomeroy
- Probability Zero (Astounding, September 1944) (1944) [ES] by P. Anderson and Frank Holby and John H. Pomeroy and Edward Shulman
- Agricultural Geology (1944) [SF] by George Holman
- That's a Lot of Hot Air! (1944) [SF] by Francis Wilson Powell
- Applesauce (1944) [SF] by George W. Hall
- The Lusts of Professor Adams (1972) [SF] by L. Sprague de Camp
- Probability Zero! The Population Implosion (1973) [SF] by Theodore R. Cogswell also appeared as:
  - Variant: The Population Implosion (1973)
  - Variant: Probability Zero: The Population Implosion (1973)
- Probability Zero (Analog, October 1976) (1976) [SF] by Hayford Peirce
- The Astounding Adventures of Isaac Intrepid (1979) [SF] by Mike Resnick and Lou Tabakow
- Monster's Meal (1980) [SF] by Paul J. Nahin
- Standards (1980) [SF] by Richard K. Lyon
- Loophole (1981) [SF] by Timothy Zahn
- Escape Velocity (1982) [SF] by Don Sakers also appeared as:
  - Translation: Velocità Di Fuga [Italian] (1983)
- Information Implosion (1983) [SF] by Arlan Andrews, Sr. [also as by Arlan Keith Andrews, Sr.]
- Untitled (Analog, July 1983) (1983) [ES] by Dick MacMillan
- Washout (1984) [SF] by Richard Brouse
- Century of Progress (1984) [SF] by Jay Kay Klein
- Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll (1985) [ES] by John Gribbin
- Mass Communication (1985) [SF] by Jay Kay Klein
- Left to Right (1987) [SF] by Isaac Asimov also appeared as:
  - Translation: Links naar Rechts [Dutch] (1995)
- QTL (1987) [SF] by Arlan Andrews, Sr. [also as by Arlan Andrews]
- Left to Right, and Beyond (1987) [SF] by Isaac Asimov and Harrison Roth
- What's a Nice Girl Like You ... (1987) [SF] by Jerry Oltion
- Occidental Injury (1987) [SF] by Arlan Andrews, Sr. [also as by Arlan Andrews]
- Proallognostication (1987) [SF] by Andrew Giesler
- Surfaced Tension (1988) [SF] by Arlan Andrews, Sr. [also as by Arlan Andrews]
- Together (1988) [SF] by Joe Fischetti
- Schrodinger's Lifeboat (1990) [SF] by Jerry Oltion also appeared as:
  - Translation: O Escaler de Schröndinger [Portuguese] (1992)
- The Cosmic Implications of Your Mailing Label (1990) [SF] by Dean McLaughlin
- Uncertainty Exchange (1991) [SF] by David J. Strumfels
- Split End (1991) [SF] by Mark Miller
- A Logical Answer to "Where is Everybody?" (1991) [SF] by Richard K. Lyon
- Protocol (1992) [SF] by Gregory Bennett [only as by Gregory R. Bennett]
- On Secret Wings (1992) [SF] by Dean McLaughlin
- Self-Limiting (1992) [SF] by Robert L. Forward
- Doing Something About It (1992) [SF] by Stephen Walton
- Real-Time (1992) [SF] by Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D. [only as by Lee Goodloe]
- Fermat's Legacy (1992) [SF] by Ian Randal Strock
- C-Change (1992) [SF] by Charles Sheffield
- Homework (1992) [SF] by Don D'Ammassa
- Attraction (1993) [SF] by G. David Nordley
- Alien Automotive (1993) [SF] by Kent Patterson
- Prisoners' Dilemma (1993) [SF] by Jeffrey G. Liss
- A Glance Backward (1993) [SF] by Ian Randal Strock
- De Gustibus (1993) [SF] by Robert J. Howe
- The Ears Have It (1993) [SF] by Ian Randal Strock
- Creation Myths of the Recently Extinct (1994) [SF] by Frederik Pohl also appeared as:
  - Translation:
    Mituri ale creației la rasele dispărute^?Mituri ale creatiei la rasele disparute
    [Romanian] (1994)
- Typecasting (1994) [SF] by W. R. Thompson
- Applied Science (1994) [SF] by Lawrence Person
- Unplanned-for Flying Object (1994) [SF] by Edward M. Lerner
- The North Pole Algorithms (1994) [SF] by David Bischoff
- The Way of Flesh (1995) [SF] by Paul Levinson
- The Pattern (1995) [SF] by Tom Ligon
- Virtually Correct (1995) [SF] by Marianne J. Dyson
- Sentimental Value (1995) [SF] by Michael A. Burstein
- Without an S (1995) [SF] by Ian Randal Strock
- Away in a Manger (1995) [SF] by Jerry Oltion
- The Bill (1996) [SF] by Bud Sparhawk
- Communications Failure (1996) [SF] by Ron L. Figgins
- Orwell's Other Nightmare (1996) [SF] by Don D'Ammassa
- Always, There's Somebody Doesn't Get the Word (1996) [SF] by Dean McLaughlin
- Absolute Limits (1996) [SF] by Guy Stewart
- Heisenberg's Magazine (1997) [SF] by Michael A. Burstein
- Lower the River (1997) [SF] by Ben Bova
- The Worry Wart (1997) [SF] by Jeffery D. Kooistra
- Sufficiently Un-Advanced (1997) [SF] by Mark Rich
- The Cure (1997) [SF] by Michael A. Burstein
- A Brief History of (Eat Chippos Now!) Intellectual Property (1998) [SF] by Marc Stiegler
- Peculiar Plants (1998) [SF] by Mia Molvray
- It's the Thought that Counts (1998) [SF] by Ian Randal Strock
- Mary Had a Little ... (1998) [SF] by Dean McLaughlin
- Effacing the Truth (1998) [SF] by Arlan Andrews, Sr. [also as by Arlan Andrews]
- Hello! (1998) [SF] by Walter F. Cuirle
- I Don't Know and I Don't Care (1998) [SF] by Shane Tourtellotte
- The Bad Santa Claus (1999) [SF] by David Phalen
- A Solution to the Orbital Debris Problem (1999) [SF] by Marianne J. Dyson
- Going Home (1999) [SF] by H. G. Stratmann
- Wrong Answers (1999) [SF] by Shane Tourtellotte
- The Karma Sutra (1999) [SF] by Don D'Ammassa
- Notes Toward a New Trait As Revealed by Correlation Among Items of the Mmmpi (1999) [SF] by Mary A. Turzillo also appeared as:
  - Variant: Notes Toward a New Trait As Revealed by Correlation Among Items of the Mmmpi (1999) [as by U. R. A. Furball and C. Kitirun and P. Purzillo]
  - Variant: Notes Toward a New Trait As Revealed by Correlation Among Items of the Mmmpi (2015) [as by U. R. A. Ferball and C. Kitirun and M. Purrzillo]
- The Right Hand and the Left Hand (1999) [SF] by Rebecca Lickiss
- Messengers (1999) [SF] by Shane Tourtellotte
- Whose Millennium? (2000) [SF] by Michael A. Burstein
- The Fingerprints of the Gods (2000) [SF] by Janet Asimov
- The Turing Testers (2000) [SF] by Michael A. Burstein and Joseph J. Lazzaro
- How I Won the Lottery, Broke the Time Barrier (or Is That "Broke the Time Barrier, Won the Lottery"), and Still Wound Up Broke (2000) [SF] by Ian Randal Strock
- The Emperor's Dark Matters (2000) [SF] by Bud Sparhawk
- Sentences (2000) [SF] by Rajnar Vajra
- Jurisimprudence (2000) [SF] by H. G. Stratmann
- Evolution (2000) [SF] by Bud Sparhawk
- The Man Who Brought Down The New York Times (2000) [SF] by Paul Levinson
- Settlement (2001) [SF] by Edward M. Lerner
- The Perfect Story (2001) [SF] by Robert Scherrer
- Grandpa? (2001) [SF] by Edward M. Lerner
- Alternate Marketing (2002) [SF] by Alan L. Lickiss
- Ego Boost (2002) [SF] by Ian Randal Strock
- Hot Tip (2002) [SF] by Billy Bruce Winkles
- Zero Tolerance (2002) [SF] by Kevin Levites
- Bumper Cars (2002) [SF] by Grey Rollins
- By the Lake (2002) [SF] by Jeff Hecht
- You Gotta See This! (2002) [SF] by Ian Randal Strock
- Counterspy (2003) [SF] by Richard Foss
- The HASEG (2003) [SF] by Jerry Oltion
- Get Me to the Job on Time (2003) [SF] by Ian Randal Strock
- The Word Mill (2003) [SF] by Don D'Ammassa
- Cowzilla (2003) [SF] by Geoffrey A. Landis
- Just an Average Guy (2003) [SF] by Richard Foss
- The Rescue (2003) [SF] by Kevin Levites
- Equivalence Principle (2004) [SF] by Robert Scherrer
- Promises, Promises (2004) [SF] by Mia Molvray
- Fore-Thought (2004) [SF] by Don D'Ammassa
- Do Unto Others (2004) [SF] by Kelvin Throop
- Warning! Warning! (2004) [SF] by Guy Stewart
- What Engineers Know (2004) [SF] by Arlan Andrews, Sr. [also as by Arlan Andrews]
- The Test (2004) [SF] by Kevin Levites
- Copernican Principle (2005) [SF] by Robert Scherrer
- Much Ado About Newton (2005) [SF] by Carl Frederick
- July Fourth, 2213 (2005) [SF] by Peter L. Manly
- The Genetics Lecture (2005) [SF] by Harry Turtledove
- Keeping Track (2005) [SF] by Richard Foss
- The Emancipation of the Knowledge Robots (2006) [SF] by Carl Frederick
- Probably Murder (2006) [SF] by Michael F. Flynn
- SETI Triumphant (2006) [SF] by Richard Thieme and Aaron Ximm
- Upgrade (2006) [SF] by Eric James Stone
- Vectoring (2007) [SF] by Geoffrey A. Landis
- The Test (2007) [SF] by Kyle Kirkland
- All the Things That Can't Be (2007) [SF] by Ian Randal Strock
- Worlds Enough, and Time (2008) [SF] by Harry Turtledove
- How I Saved the National Science Foundation (2008) [SF] by Robert Scherrer
- The Dinosaurs of Eden (2008) [SF] by Darrell Schweitzer
- Outside the Box (2008) [SF] by Jerry Oltion
- Where Credit Is Due (2008) [SF] by Edward M. Lerner
- Aliens (2008) [SF] by Rick Norwood
- When All Else Fails (2009) [SF] by H. G. Stratmann and Henry Stratmann, III
- Armchair Scientist (2009) [SF] by David Bartell
- Global Warming (2009) [SF] by Harry Turtledove
- A Flash of Lightning (2009) [SF] by Robert Scherrer
- Ten Thousand Monkeys (2010) [SF] by Tom Ligon [only as by Tocho Ligon]
- Quark Soup (2010) [SF] by Bond Elam
- Light Conversation (2010) [SF] by Alastair Mayer
- Spell Czech (2010) [SF] by William Michael McCarthy
- Multivac's Singularity (2011) [SF] by Richard A. Lovett
- Timeshare (2011) [SF] by Robert H. Prestridge
- Small Penalties (2011) [SF] by Alastair Mayer
- What I Did On My Summer Vacation (2011) [SF] by Jerry Oltion
- ... Plus C'est la Même Chose (2011) [SF] by Arlan Andrews, Sr. also appeared as:
  - Variant: ...Plus C'est la Même Chose,: Or, Maps, Live! (2016)
- The Sock Problem (2011) [SF] by Alastair Mayer
- Return of the Zombie Sea Monster (2012) [SF] by Michael F. Flynn
- To Serve Aliens (Yes, It's a Cookbook) (2012) [SF] by Eric James Stone
- Donner Summit (2012) [SF] by Harry Turtledove
- The Man in the Pink Shirt (2012) [SF] by Larry Niven
- We Install (2013) [SF] by Harry Turtledove
- Unplanned Obsolescence (2013) [SF] by Edward M. Lerner
- Pre-Pirates (2013) [SF] by Don D'Ammassa
- Glitch (2013) [SF] by Jack McDevitt
- The Negative Impact of Climate Change on the Unusual Beasts of the World (2013) [SF] by Jamie Todd Rubin
- Wreck Support (2013) [SF] by Arlan Andrews, Sr.
- Abridge Too Far (2013) [SF] by Carl Frederick
- First Contact: Moms Rule (2014) [SF] by Diane Turnshek
- Our New Overlords (2014) [SF] by Jerry Oltion
- The Last Time My Computer Went Down (2014) [SF] by Kate Gladstone
- All Too Human (2014) [SF] by Paul Carlson
- Space Bugs (2015) [SF] by Marianne J. Dyson [only as by Marianne Dyson]
- Phenol-Faerie (2015) [SF] by Jay Werkheiser
- Whey Station (2015) [SF] by Guy Stewart
- Double Exposure (2015) [SF] by Don Sakers
- Cease and Desist (2015) [SF] by Jay Werkheiser
- TimeOut (2016) [SF] by Norman Spinrad
- Throw Me a Bone (2017) [SF] by Stanley Schmidt
- A Little Spooky Action (2017) [SF] by Howard V. Hendrix
- Viktor Frankenstein's Bar and Grill and Twenty-Four-Hour Roadside Emporium (2017) [SF] by Michael F. Flynn
- The Pilgrimage (2017) [SF] by Edward M. Lerner
- Margin of Error (2018) [SF] by Paul Carlson
- The Being (2018) [SF] by Bill Pronzini
- Another View of the Matter Addressed in Shelley's "Ozymandias" (2018) [SF] by Tim McDaniel
- Preface to The Handbook of Social Treatments for Conceptual Allergies (2018) [SF] by Daniel James Peterson
- The Plaything on the Tesseract Wall (2018) [SF] by Larry Hodges
- The Little Sailboat (2019) [SF] by James E. Gunn [only as by James Gunn]
- Robotic Space Killers; Autonomous. Broke. (2019) [SF] by Guy Stewart
- The Evolutionary Alice (2020) [SF] by Rachel Rodman
- Grandma Paradox (2022) [SF] by Louis Evans
- Gateway Drug (2022) [SF] by Louis Evans
- Labor Dispute (2022) [SF] by Filip Wiltgren
- Christmas at Albert's (2023) [SF] by Mark W. Tiedemann

Series: Probability Zero

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