Short Stories by Isaac Asimov

1. Introduction
2. “Robbie” (1940)
3. “Runaround” (1942)
4. “Reason” (1941)
5. “Catch That Rabbit!” (1944)
6. “Liar!” (1941)
7. “Little Lost Robot” (1947)
8. “Escape!” (1945)
9. “Evidence” (1946)
10. “The Evitable Conflict” (1950)

1. “The Martian Way”
2. “Youth”
3. “The Deep”
4. “Sucker Bait”

1. “The Dead Past” (1956)
2. “The Foundation of S.F. Success” (1954, poem)
3. “Franchise” (1955)
4. “Gimmicks Three” (1956)
5. “Kid Stuff” (1953)
6. “The Watery Place” (1956)
7. “Living Space” (1956)
8. “The Message” (1955)
9. “Satisfaction Guaranteed” (1951) – My Review
10. “Hell-Fire” (1956)
11. “The Last Trump” (1955)
12. “The Fun They Had” (1951)
13. “Jokester” (1956)
14. “The Immortal Bard” (1953)
15. “Someday” (1956) – My Review
16. “The Author’s Ordeal” (1957, poem)
17. “Dreaming Is a Private Thing” (1955)

1. “I Just Make Them Up, See!” (poem)
2. “Profession”
3. “The Feeling of Power”
4. “The Dying Night”
5. “I’m in Marsport Without Hilda”
6. “The Gentle Vultures”
7. “All the Troubles of the World”
8. “Spell My Name with an S”
9. “The Last Question”
10. “The Ugly Little Boy”
11. “Rejection Slips” (poem)

1. “Robot AL-76 Goes Astray”
2. “Victory Unintentional”
3. “First Law”
4. “Let’s Get Together”
5. “Satisfaction Guaranteed”
6. “Risk”
7. “Lenny”
8. “Galley Slave”

1. “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” (1954)
2. “Belief” (1953)
3. “Breeds There a Man…?” (1951)
4. “C-Chute” (1951)

(under construction)

1. “Nightfall” (1941)
2. “Green Patches” (1950)
3. “Hostess” (1951)
4. “Breeds There a Man…?” (1951)
5. “C-Chute” (1951)
6. “In a Good Cause—” (1951)
7. “What If—” (1952)
8. “Sally” (1953) – My Review
9. “Flies” (1953)
10. “Nobody Here But—” (1953)
11. “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” (1955)
12. “Strikebreaker” (1957, a.k.a. “Male Strikebreaker”)
13. “Insert Knob A in Hole B” (1957)
14. “The Up-to-Date Sorcerer” (1958)
15. “Unto the Fourth Generation” (1959)
16. “What Is This Thing Called Love?” (1961)
17. “The Machine That Won the War” (1961)
18. “My Son, the Physicist” (1962)
19. “Eyes Do More Than See” (1965)
20. “Segregationist” (1967) – My Review

1. “The Callistan Menace” (1940)
2. “Ring Around the Sun” (1940)
3. “The Magnificent Possession” (1940)
4. “Trends” (1939)
5. “The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use” (1939)
6. “Black Friar of the Flame” (1942)
7. “Half-Breed” (1940)
8. “The Secret Sense” (1941)
9. “Homo Sol” (1940)
10. “Half-Breeds on Venus” (1940)
11. “The Imaginary” (1942)
12. “Heredity” (1941)
13. “History” (1941)
14. “Christmas on Ganymede” (1942)
15. “The Little Man on the Subway” (1950)
16. “The Hazing” (1942)
17. “Super-Neutron” (1941)
18. “Not Final!” (1941)
19. “Legal Rites” (1950)
20. “Time Pussy” (1942)
21. “Author! Author!” (1964)
22. “Death Sentence” (1943)
23. “Blind Alley” (1945)
24. “No Connection” (1948)
25. “The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline” (1948)
26. “The Red Queen’s Race” (1949)
27. “Mother Earth” (1949)

1. Introduction
2. “Marooned off Vesta” (1939)
3. “Nightfall” (1941)
4. “C-Chute” (1951)
5. “The Martian Way” (1952)
6. “The Deep” (1952)
7. “The Fun They Had” (1951)
8. “The Last Question” (1956)
9. “The Dead Past” (1956)
10. “The Dying Night” (1956)
11. “Anniversary” (1959)
12. “The Billiard Ball” (1967)
13. “Mirror Image” (1972) – My Review

• Introduction
• “The Day of the Hunters” – My Review
• “Shah Guido G.” – My Review
• “The Monkey’s Finger” – My Review
• “Everest” – My Review
• “The Pause” – My Review
• “Blank!” – My Review
• “Silly Asses” – My Review
• “Rain, Rain, Go Away” – My Review

1. “The Acquisitive Chuckle”
2. “Ph as in Phony”
3. “Truth to Tell”
4. “Go, Little Book!”
5. “Early Sunday Morning”
6. “The Obvious Factor”
7. “The Pointing Finger”
8. “Miss What?”
9. “The Lullaby of Broadway”
10. “Yankee Doodle Went to Town”
11. “The Curious Omission”
12. “Out of Sight”

1. “Darwinian Pool Room” (1950)
2. “Day of the Hunters” (1950)
3. “Shah Guido G.” (1951)
4. “Button, Button” (1953)
5. “The Monkey’s Finger” (1953)
6. “Everest” (1953)
7. “The Pause” (1954)
8. “Let’s Not” (1954)
9. “Each an Explorer” (1956)
10. “Blank!” (1957)
11. “Does a Bee Care?” (1957)
12. “Silly Asses” (1958)
13. “Buy Jupiter” (1958)
14. “A Statue for Father” (1959)
15. “Rain, Rain, Go Away” (1959)
16. “Founding Father” (1965)
17. “Exile to Hell” (1968)
18. “Key Item” (1968)
19. “The Proper Study” (1968)
20. “2430 A.D.” (1970)
21. “The Greatest Asset” (1972)
22. “Take a Match” (1972)
23. “Thiotimoline to the Stars” (1973)
24. “Light Verse” (1973)

This is a children’s story (ages 7-10) set at Christmas about two alien species learning to get along.

1. “The Dream”
2. “Benjamin’s Dream”
3. “Benjamin’s Bicentennial Blast”

1. Introduction (by Alan R. Bechtold)
2. “Good Taste”
3. Biography of Isaac Asimov (by Alan R. Bechtold)
4. Bibliography of Isaac Asimov (by Alan R. Bechtold)

1. “The Prime of Life” (1966, poem)
2. “Feminine Intuition” (1969) – My Review
3. “Waterclap” (1970)
4. “That Thou Art Mindful of Him” (1974) – My Review
5. “Stranger in Paradise” (1974) – My Review
6. “The Life and Times of Multivac” (1975)
7. “The Winnowing” (1976)
8. “The Bicentennial Man” (1976) – My Review
9. “Marching In” (1976)
10. “Old-fashioned” (1976)
11. “The Tercentenary Incident” (1976) – My Review
12. “Birth of a Notion” (1976)

1. Introduction
2. “When No Man Pursueth”
3. “Quicker Than the Eye”
4. “The Iron Gem”
5. “The Three Numbers”
6. “Nothing Like Murder”
7. “No Smoking”
8. “Season’s Greetings!”
9. “The One and Only East”
10. “Earthset and Evening Star” (1976)
11. “Friday the Thirteenth”
12. “The Unabridged”
13. “The Ultimate Crime”

1. “The Key Word”
2. “Santa Claus Gets a Coin” (1975)
3. “Sarah Tops” (1975)
4. “The Thirteenth Day of Christmas” (1977)
5. “A Case of Need” (1975)
6. “The Disappearing Man” (1978)

1. Introduction
2. “The Cross of Lorraine”
3. “The Family Man”
4. “The Sports Page”
5. “Second Best”
6. “The Missing Item”
7. “The Next Day”
8. “Irrelevance!”
9. “None So Blind”
10. “The Backward Look”
11. “What Time Is It?”
12. “Middle Name”
13. “To the Barest”

(under construction)

1. “A Boy’s Best Friend” (1975)
2. “Sally” (1953)
3. “Someday” (1956)
4. “Point of View” (1975)
5. “Think!” (1977)
6. “True Love” (1977)
7. “Robot AL-76 Goes Astray” (1942)
8. “Victory Unintentional” (1942)
9. “Stranger in Paradise” (1974)
10. “Light Verse” (1973)
11. “Segregationist” (1967)
12. “Robbie” (1940)
13. “Let’s Get Together” (1957)
14. “Mirror Image” (1972)
15. “The Tercentenary Incident” (1976)
16. “First Law” (1956)
17. “Runaround” (1942)
18. “Reason” (1941)
19. “Catch That Rabbit” (1944)
20. “Liar!” (1941)
21. “Satisfaction Guaranteed” (1951)
22. “Lenny” (1958)
23. ‘Galley Slave” (1957)
24. “Little Lost Robot” (1947)
25. “Risk” (1955)
26. “Escape!” (1945)
27. “Evidence” (1946)
28. “The Evitable Conflict” (1950)
29. “Feminine Intuition” (1969)
30. “…That Thou Art Mindful of Him” (1974)
31. “The Bicentennial Man” (1976)

1. “About Nothing”
2. “A Perfect Fit”
3. “Belief”
4. “Death of a Foy”
5. “Fair Exchange?”
6. “For The Birds”
7. “Found!”
8. “Good Taste”
9. “How It Happened”
10. “Ideas Die Hard”
11. “Ignition Point!”
12. “It Is Coming”
13. “The Last Answer”
14. “The Last Shuttle”
15. “Lest We Remember”
16. “Nothing for Nothing”
17. “One Night of Song”
18. “The Smile that Loses”
19. “Sure Thing”
20. “To Tell at a Glance”
21. “The Winds of Change”

1. “No Refuge Could Save” (1980, a.k.a. “To Spot a Spy”)
2. “The Telephone Number” (1980, a.k.a. “The Winning Number”)
3. “The Men Who Wouldn’t Talk” (1980, a.k.a. “Pigeon English”)
4. “A Clear Shot” (1980, a.k.a. “Big Shot”)
5. “Irresistible to Women” (1981, a.k.a. “Call Me Irresistible”)
6. “He Wasn’t There” (1981, a.k.a. “The Spy Who Was Out-of-Focus”)*
7. “The Thin Line” (1981, a.k.a. “Taxicab Crackdown”)
8. “Mystery Tune” (1981, a.k.a. “Death Song”)
9. “Hide and Seek” (1981)
10. “Gift” (1981, a.k.a. “Decipher Deception”)
11. “Hot or Cold” (1981)
12. “The Thirteenth Page” (1981)
13. “1 to 999” (1981, a.k.a. “One in a Thousand”)
14. “Twelve Years Old” (1981, a.k.a. “The 12-Year-Old Problem”)
15. “Testing, Testing!” (1981, a.k.a. “Cloak and Dagger Duel”)
16. “The Appleby Story” (1981, a.k.a. “The Last Laugh”)
17. “Dollars and Cents” (1982, a.k.a. “Countdown to Disaster”)*
18. “Friends and Allies” (1982, a.k.a. “Mirror Image”)
19. “Which is Which?” (1982, a.k.a. “The Perfect Alibi”)
20. “The Sign” (1982, a.k.a. “The Telltale Sign”)*
21. “Catching the Fox” (1982, a.k.a. “Stopping the Fox”)
22. “Getting the Combination” (1982, a.k.a. “Playing It by the Numbers”)*
23. “The Library Book” (1982, a.k.a. “Mystery Book”)*
24. “The Three Goblets” (1982, a.k.a. “A Flash of Brilliance”)
25. “Spell It!” (1982, a.k.a. “Book Smart”)
26. “Two Women” (1982, a.k.a. “Cherchez la Femme: the Case of the Disappearing Woman”)
27. “Sending a Signal” (1982, a.k.a. “A Piece of the Rock”)
28. “The Favorite Piece” (1983, a.k.a. “Face the Music”)
29. “Half a Ghost” (1982, a.k.a. “A Ghost of a Chance”)
30. “There Was a Young Lady” (1983, a.k.a. “Poetic License”)

1. Introduction
2. “Sixty Million Trillion Combinations” (1980)
3. “The Woman in the Bar” (1980)
4. “The Driver”
5. “The Good Samaritan” (1980)
6. “The Year of the Action” (1981)
7. “Can You Prove It?” (1981)
8. “The Phoenician Bauble” (1982)
9. “A Monday in April” (1983)
10. “Neither Brute Nor Human” (1984)
11. “The Redhead” (1984)
12. “The Wrong House”
13. “The Intrusion”

1. “The Disappearing Man” (1978)
2. “Lucky Seven” (1982)
3. “The Christmas Solution” (1983)
4. “The Twins” (1985)
5. “The Man in the Park” (1985)

1. Foreword (by Ben Bova)
2. Introduction (by Isaac Asimov)
3. “Unique Is Where You Find It”
4. “The Eureka Phenomenon” (essay)
5. “The Feeling of Power”
6. “The Comet That Wasn’t” (essay)
7. “Found!”
8. “Twinkle, Twinkle, Microwaves” (essay)
9. “Pâté de Foie Gras”
10. “The Bridge of the Gods” (essay)
11. “Belief”
12. “Euclid’s Fifth” (essay)
13. “The Plane Truth” (essay)
14. “The Billiard Ball”
15. “The Winds of Change”
16. “The Figure of the Fastest” (essay)
17. “The Dead Past”
18. “The Fateful Lightning” (essay)
19. “Breeds There a Man…?”
20. “The Man Who Massed the Earth” (essay)
21. “Nightfall”
22. “The Planet That Wasn’t” (essay)
23. “The Ugly Little Boy”
24. “The Three Who Died Too Soon” (essay)
25. “The Last Question”
26. “The Nobel Prize That Wasn’t” (essay)

1. Grow Old With Me (first draft of Pebble in the Sky)
2. “The End of Eternity” (first novella of the later novel)
3. “Belief” (one short story, two versions)

Black Widowers

1. “The Obvious Factor”
2. “The Pointing Finger”
3. “Out of Sight”
4. “Yankee Doodle Went to Town”
5. “Quicker Than the Eye”
6. “The Three Numbers”
7. “The One and Only East”
8. “The Cross of Lorraine”
9. “The Next Day”
10. “What Time Is It?”
11. “Middle Name”
12. “Sixty Million Trillion Combinations”
13. “The Good Samaritan”
14. “Can You Prove It?”
15. “The Redhead”
    
    Union Club
16. “He Wasn’t There”
17. “Hide and Seek”
18. “Dollars and Cents”
19. “The Sign”
20. “Getting the Combination”
21. “The Library Book”
22. “Never Out of Sight”
23. “The Magic Umbrella”
24. “The Speck”
    
    Other
25. “The Key”
26. “A Problem of Numbers”
27. “The Little Things”
28. “Halloween”
29. “The Thirteenth Day of Christmas”
30. “The Key Word”
31. “Nothing Might Happen”

1. “All the Troubles of the World”
2. “A Loint of Paw”
3. “The Dead Past”
4. “Death of a Foy”
5. “Dreaming Is a Private Thing”
6. “Dreamworld”
7. “Eyes Do More Than See”
8. “The Feeling of Power”
9. “Flies”
10. “Found!”
11. “The Foundation of S.F. Success”
12. “Franchise”
13. “The Fun They Had”
14. “How It Happened”
15. “I Just Make Them Up, See!”
16. “I’m in Marsport Without Hilda”
17. “The Immortal Bard”
18. “It’s Such a Beautiful Day”
19. “Jokester”
20. “The Last Answer”
21. “The Last Question”
22. “My Son, the Physicist”
23. “Obituary”
24. “Spell My Name with an S”
25. “Strikebreaker”
26. “Sure Thing”
27. “The Ugly Little Boy”
28. “Unto the Fourth Generation”

1. “More Things In Heaven and Earth” (1986)
2. “Rejection Slips” (1959, poem)
3. “Death of a Foy” (1980)
4. “Dashing Through the Snow” (1984)
5. “Potential” (1983)
6. “Eyes Do More Than See” (1965)
7. “The Dim Rumble” (1982)

1. “Little Lost Robot” (1947) – My Review
2. “Robot Dreams” (1986)
3. “Breeds There a Man…?” (1951)
4. “Hostess” (1951)
5. “Sally” (1953) – My Review
6. “Strikebreaker” (1957)
7. “The Machine that Won the War” (1961)
8. “Eyes Do More Than See” (1965)
9. “The Martian Way” (1952)
10. “Franchise” (1955)
11. “Jokester” (1956)
12. “The Last Question” (1956)
13. “Does a Bee Care?” (1957)
14. “Light Verse” (1973) – My Review
15. “The Feeling of Power” (1958)
16. “Spell My Name with an S” (1958)
17. “The Ugly Little Boy” (1958)
18. “The Billiard Ball” (1967)
19. “True Love” (1977) – My Review
20. “The Last Answer” (1980)
21. “Lest We Remember” (1982)

(under construction)

1. “The Two-Centimeter Demon”
2. “One Night of Song”
3. “The Smile That Loses”
4. “To the Victor”
5. “The Dim Rumble”
6. “Saving Humanity”
7. “A Matter of Principle”
8. “The Evil Drink Does”
9. “Writing Time”
10. “Dashing Through the Snow”
11. “Logic Is Logic”
12. “He Travels the Fastest”
13. “The Eye of the Beholder”
14. “More Things in Heaven and Earth”
15. “The Mind’s Construction”
16. “The Fights of Spring”
17. “Galatea”
18. “Flight of Fancy”

1. “Marooned Off Vesta” (1939)
2. “Robbie” (1940) – My Review
3. “Nightfall” (1941)
4. “Runaround” (1942) – My Review
5. “Death Sentence” (1943)
6. “Catch That Rabbit” (1944) – My Review
7. “Blind Alley” (1945)
8. “Evidence” (1946) – My Review
9. “Little Lost Robot” (1947) – My Review
10. “No Connection” (1948)
11. “The Red Queen’s Race” (1949)
12. “Green Patches” (1950)
13. “Breeds There a Man…?” (1951)
14. “The Martian Way” (1952)
15. “Sally” (1953) – My Review
16. “The Fun They Had” (1951)
17. “Franchise” (1955)
18. “The Last Question” (1956)
19. “Profession” (1957)
20. “The Ugly Little Boy” (1958)
21. “Unto the Fourth Generation” (1959)
22. “Thiotimoline and the Space Age” (1960)
23. “The Machine that Won the War” (1961)
24. “My Son, the Physicist” (1962)
25. “T-Formation” (1963, essay)
26. “Author! Author!” (1964)
27. “Eyes Do More Than See” (1965)
28. “The Key” (1966)
29. “The Billiard Ball” (1967)
30. “Exile to Hell” (1968) – My Review
31. “Feminine Intuition” (1969) – My Review
32. “A Problem of Numbers” (1970)
33. “Bill and I” (1971, essay)
34. “Mirror Image” (1972) – My Review
35. “Light Verse” (1973) – My Review
36. “. . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him” (1974) –
    My Review
37. “Earthset and Evening Star” (1975)
38. “The Bicentennial Man” (1976) – My Review
39. “True Love” (1977) – My Review
40. “Found!” (1978)
41. “Nothing for Nothing” (1979)
42. “For the Birds” (1980)
43. “Ignition Point!” (1981)
44. “Lest We Remember” (1982)
45. “Saving Humanity” (1983)
46. “Neither Brute Nor Human” (1984)
47. “The Fourth Homonym” (1985)
48. “The Eye of the Beholder” (1986)
49. “The Quiet Place” (1988)
50. “I Love Little Pussy” (1988)

1. Introduction
2. “The Fourth Homonym” (1985)
3. “Unique Is Where You Find It” (1985)
4. “The Lucky Piece” (1990)
5. “Triple Devil” (1985)
6. “Sunset on the Water” (1986)
7. “Where Is He?” (1986)
8. “The Old Purse” (1987)
9. “The Quiet Place” (1988)
10. “The Four-Leaf Clover” (1990)
11. “The Envelope” (1989)
12. “The Alibi” (1989)
13. “The Recipe” (1990)

1. “Robot Visions” (1990)
2. “Too Bad!” (1989)
3. “Robbie” (1940) – My Review
4. “Reason” (1941) – My Review
5. “Liar!” (1941) – My Review
6. “Runaround” (1942) – My Review
7. “Evidence” (1946) – My Review
8. “Little Lost Robot” (1947) – My Review
9. “The Evitable Conflict” (1950) – My Review
10. “Feminine Intuition” (1969) – My Review
11. “The Bicentennial Man” (1976) – My Review
12. “Someday” (1956) – My Review
13. “Think!” (1977) – My Review
14. “Segregationist” (1967) – My Review
15. “Mirror Image” (1972) – My Review
16. “Lenny” (1958) – My Review
17. “Galley Slave” (1957) – My Review
18. “Christmas Without Rodney” (1988)
    
    Essays
19. “Robots I Have Known” (1954)
20. “The New Teachers” (1976)
21. “Whatever You Wish” (1977)
22. “The Friends We Make” (1977)
23. “Our Intelligent Tools” (1977)
24. “The Machine and the Robot” (1978)
25. “The Laws of Robotics” (1979)
26. “The New Profession” (1979)
27. “The Robot As Enemy?” (1979)
28. “Intelligences Together” (1979)
29. “My Robots” (1987)
30. “The Laws of Humanics” (1987)
31. “Cybernetic Organism” (1987)
32. “The Sense of Humor” (1988)
33. “Robots in Combination” (1988)
34. “Future Fantastic” (1989)

Doubleday took a gamble that fans wanted all of Asimov’s 383 stories collected in a single series, so they began with 48 favorites in this first volume. They discontinued after publishing only 88 stories in the series.

This second collection featured the next 40 stories, leaving fans with just 88 stories of Asimov’s 383 in this incomplete “Complete Stories” series.

1. “Cal”
2. “Left to Right”
3. “Frustration”
4. “Hallucination’
5. “The Instability”
6. “Alexander the God’
7. “In the Canyon”
8. “Good-bye to Earth”
9. “Battle-Hymn”
10. “Feghoot and the Courts”
11. “Fault-Intolerant”
12. “Kid Brother”
13. “The Nations in Space”
14. “The Smile of the Chipper”
15. “Gold”

Introduction
“Part One: The Final Fantasy Stories”, short stories:

1. “To Your Health” (1989)
2. “The Critic on the Hearth” (1992)
3. “It’s a Job” (1991)
4. “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (1991)
5. “The Time Traveler” (1990)
6. “Wine Is a Mocker” (1990)
7. “The Mad Scientist” (1989)
8. “The Fable of the Three Princes” (1987)
9. “March Against the Foe” (1994)
10. “Northwestward” (1989)
11. “Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon” (1991)

1. “Introduction” (by Harlan Ellison)
2. “The Acquisitive Chuckle”
3. “Ph As in Phony”
4. “Early Sunday Morning”
5. “The Obvious Factor”
6. “The Iron Gem”
7. “To the Barest”
8. “Sixty Million Trillion Combinations”
9. “The Wrong House”
10. “The Redhead”
11. “Triple Devil”
12. “The Men Who Read Isaac Asimov”
13. “Northwestward”
14. “Yes, but Why?”
15. “Lost in a Space Warp”
16. “Police at the Door”
17. “The Haunted Cabin”
18. “The Guest’s Guest”
19. “The Woman in the Bar”
20. “The Last Story” (by Charles Ardai)
21. “Afterword”