16 Short Story Collections by Isaac Asimov
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Overview: Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards.
Some stories in the following collections may be duplicated in other collections, but every collection has at least one unique story, except for The Rest of the Robots (contained in The Complete Robot.)
Genre: Science Fiction
02. The Martian Way and Other Stories contains The Martian Way, Youth, The Deep, and Sucker Bait.
03. Earth is Room Enough contains The Dead Past, The Foundation of S.F. Success (comic verse,) Franchise, Gimmicks Three, Kid Stuff, The Watery Place, Living Space, The Message, Satisfaction Guaranteed, Hell-Fire, The Last Trump, The Fun They Had, Jokester, The Immortal Bard, Someday, The Author’s Ordeal (comic verse,) and Dreaming is a Private Thing.
04. Nine Tomorrows contains I Just Make Them Up, See! (comic verse,) Profession, The Feeling of Power, The Dying Night, I’m In Marsport Without Hilda (bowdlerized version,) The Gentle Vultures, All the Troubles of the World, Spell My Last Name with an S, The Last Question, The Ugly Little Boy, and Rejection Slips (comic verse.)
05. The Rest of the Robots originally included the two robot novels: The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun. This collection contains Robot AL-76 Goes Astray, Victory Unintentional, First Law, Let’s Get Together, Satisfaction Guaranteed, Risk, Lenny, and Galley Slave.
06. Asimov’s Mysteries is a collection of science fiction mysteries, including: The Singing Bell, The Talking Stone, What’s in a Name, The Dying Night, Pâté de Foie Gras, The Dust of Death, A Loint of Paw, I’m in Marsport Without Hilda, Marooned Off Vesta, Anniversary, Obituary, Star Light, The Key, and The Billiard Ball.
09. Buy Jupiter and Other Stories contains Darwinian Pool Room, Day of the Hunters, Shah Guido G., Button, Button, The Monkey’s Finger, Everest, The Pause, Let’s Not, Each an Explorer, Blank!, Does a Bee Care?, Silly Asses, Buy Jupiter, A Statue for Father, Rain, Rain, Go Away, Founding Father, Exile to Hell, Key Item, The Proper Study, 2430 A.D., The Greatest Asset, Take a Match, Thiotimoline to the Stars, and Light Verse.
10. The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories contains The Prime of Life (poem,) Feminine Intuition, Waterclap, That Thou art Mindful of Him, Stranger in Paradise, The Life and Times of Multivac, The Winnowing, The Bicentennial Man, Marching In, Old-fashioned, The Tercentenary Incident, and Birth of a Notion.
11. The Complete Robot – Both I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots are included in this collection. However, there is a framing story that ties the stories together in I, Robot which isn’t included in this collection. In addition to the stories from I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots, this collection contains several stories not previously collected elsewhere. Those include A Boy’s Best Friend, Point of View, Think! (also in Robot Visions,) True Love (also in Robot Dreams,) and Mirror Image (previously collected in The Best of Isaac Asimov.)
12. The Winds of Change and Other Stories contains About Nothing, A Perfect Fit, Belief, Death of a Foy, Fair Exchange?, For the Birds, Found!, Good Taste, How It Happened, Ideas Die Hard, Ignition Point!, It Is Coming, The Last Answer, The Last Shuttle, Lest We Remember, Nothing for Nothing, One Night of Song, The Smile That Loses, Sure Thing, To Tell at a Glance, and The Winds of Change.
13. Robot Dreams is a set of previously collected stories, with the exception of the title story. It contains illustrations by Robert McQuarrie. The stories are Little Lost Robot, Robot Dreams, Breeds There a Man…?, Hostess, Sally, Strikebreaker, The Machine that Won the War, Eyes Do More Than See, The Martian Way, Franchise, Jokester, The Last Question, Does a Bee Care?, Light Verse, The Feeling of Power, Spell My Name with an S, The Ugly Little Boy, The Billiard Ball, True Love, The Last Answer, and Lest We Remember.
15. Robot Visions is a companion work to Robot Dreams, and contains more previously collected stories, several uncollected stories, and non-fiction essays. Again, this is illustrated by Robert McQuarrie, and contains Robot Visions, Too Bad!, Robbie, Reason, Liar!, Runaround, Evidence, Little Lost Robot, The Evitable Conflict, Feminine Intuition, The Bicentennial Man, Someday, Think!, Segregationist, Mirror Image, Lenny, Galley Slave, and Christmas Without Rodney. Essays included are The Robot Chronicles, Robots I Have Known, The New Teachers, Whatever You Wish, The Friends We Make, Our Intelligent Tools, The Laws of Robotics, Future Fantastic, TheMachine and the Robot, The New Profession, The Robot As Enemy?, Intelligences Together, My Robots, The Laws of Humanics, Cybernetic Organism, The Sense of Humor, and Robots in Combination.
16. Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection is a collection of stories that had not been collected at the time of Asimov’s death. It also has two non-fiction sections. The stories are Cal, Left to Right, Frustration, Hallucination, The Instability, Alexander the God, In the Canyon, Good-bye to Earth, Battle-Hymn, Feghoot and the Courts, Fault-Intolerant, Kid Brother, The Nations in Space, The Smile of the Chipper, and Gold. The Essays are divided into two parts. On Science Fiction contains The Longest Voyage, Inventing the Universe, Flying Saucers and Science Fiction, Invasion, The Science Fiction Blowgun, The Robot Chronicles, Golden Age Ahead, The All-Human Galaxy, Psychohistory, Science Fiction Series, Survivors, Science Fiction Anthologies, The Influence of Science Fiction, Women and Science Fiction, Religion and Science Fiction, and Time-Travel. On Writing Science Fiction contains Plotting, Metaphor, Ideas, Suspense, Serials, The Name of Our Field, Hints, Writing for Young People, Names, Originality, Book Reviews, What Writers Go Through, Revisions, Irony, Plagiarism, Symbolism, Prediction, Best-Seller, Pseudonyms, and Dialog.
Added Files:
01. I, Robot contains a interwoven framing sequence written for this collection, and the stories Robbie, Runaround, Reason, Catch that Rabbit, Liar!, Little Lost Robot, Escape!, Evidence, and The Evitable Conflict.
07. Nightfall and Other Stories contains Nightfall, Green Patches, Hostess, Breeds There a Man…?, C-Chute, In a Good Cause-, What If-, Sally, Flies, Nobody Here But-, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, Strikebreaker, Insert Knob A in Hole B, The Up-To-Date Sorcerer, Unto the Fourth Generation, What is This Thing Called Love?, The Machine that Won the War, My Son, the Physicist, Eyes Do More Than See, and Segregationist.
08. The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying contains The Callistan Menace, Ring Around the Sun, The Magnificent Possession, Trends, The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use, Black Friar of the Flame, Half-Breed, The Secret Sense, Homo Sol, Half-Breeds on Venus, The Imaginary, Heredity, History, Christmas on Ganymede, The Little Man on the Subway, The Hazing, Super-Neutron, Not Final!, Legal Rites, Time Pussy, Author! Author!, Death Sentence, Blind Alley, No Connection, The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline, The Red Queen’s Race, and Mother Earth.
14. Azazel contains The Two-Centimeter Demon, One Night of Song, The Smile That Loses, To the Victor, The Dim Rumble, Saving Humanity, A Matter of Principle, The Evil Drink Does, Writing Time, Dashing Through the Snow, Logic Is Logic, He Travels the Fastest, The Eye of the Beholder, More Things in Heaven and Earth, The Mind’s Construction, The Fights of Spring, Galatea, and Flight of Fancy.
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