this should close down the introductory robot section.
the third short stories collection, complete stories, will then clean up a good deal of the early material, before i move to buy jupiter and then the martian way, and then finally the bicentennial man at which point almost everything will be dealt with, except a handful of very late stories that i'll deal with at the very, very end.
some of the remaining stories will exist in asimov's broader universe and be placed in section II, others will be placed in section I and still others will be placed in section IV.
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the essential asimov short stories:
i'm going to propose my own arrangement of these short stories, in three volumes. the idea is to pull out the interesting pieces and throw away the ones that are just kids' stories. the fourth volume isn't intended to actually exist, but it's the leftovers.
i intend this to be comprehensive, but will not include the short stories collected in the foundation texts. this currently includes everything up to 1950 [the only thing i haven't reviewed yet is nightfall], as well as a good selection of the material up to 1982, with a stronger emphasis on the material in the 50s.
step three will be "the complete works, volume I", of which a second was completed but a third volume was not. that will lead off with nightfall and clean up much of the material before 1970.
i suspect i may add further to the robot sequence. we'll see.
section I: isolated stories
- trends
- the weapon too dreadful to use
- half-breed
- the secret sense
- super-neutron
- nightfall
- not final! + victory unintentional
- no connection
- red queen's race
- sally
- let's get together
- segregationist
section II: back stories & side-stories
a: back stories for asimov's universe
- black friar of the flame
- homo sol
- the imaginary
- the hazing
- heredity
- death sentence
- mother earth
b: side stories in asimov's universe
- mirror image
- blind alley
- robot al-76 goes astray
- runaround
- catch that rabbit
- risk
- escape!
- liar!
- satisfaction guaranteed
section III: robot sequence
- someday
- robbie
- light verse
- reason
- lenny
- galley slave
- little lost robot
- evidence
- the evitable conflict
- feminine intuition
- ...that thou art mindful of him
- the bicentennial man
section IV: throwaway:
- callistan menace
- ring around the sun
- the magnificent possession
- half-breeds on venus
- history
- christmas on ganymede
- the little man on the subway
- legal rites
- time pussy
- author! author!
- the endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimiline
- first law
- stranger in paradise
- a boy's best friend
- point of view
- tercentenary incident
- think!
- true love
uncatalogued:
- marooned off vesta
- darwinian poolroom
- green patches
- day of the hunters
- hostess
- breeds there a man
- in a good cause
- c-chute
- shah guidio g
- fun they had
- youth
- what if
- martian way
- the deep
- button, button
- monkey's finger
- nobody here but
- flies
- kid stuff
- belief
- everest
- sucker bait
- the pause
- the immortal bard
- foundation of sf success
- lets not
- its such a beautiful day
- the singing bell
- the last trump
- franchise
- the talking stone
- dreaming is a private thing
- the message
- the dead past
- hell-fire
- living space
- what's in a name
- the dying night
- each an explorer
- pate de foie grras -
- the watery place
- gimmick's three - the complete stories
- the last question - the complete stories
- jokester - the complete stories
- strike breaker - the complete stories
- dust of death - asimov's mysteries
- the author's ordeal -complete stories
- blank - buy jupiter
- does a bee care - buy jupiter
- profession - complete stories
- a loint of paw - asimov's mysteries
- ideas die hard - winds of change
- i'm in marsport without hilda - complete stories
- insert knob a in hole b - complete stories
- the gentle vultures - complete stories
- spell my name with an s - complete stories
- i just make them up, see - complete stories
- the feeling of power - the complete stories
- silly asses - buy jupiter
- all the troubles of the world - complete stories
- buy jupiter - buy jupiter
- the uptodate sorcerer - complete stories
- the ugly little boy - the complete stories
- a statue for father - buy jupiter
- anniversary - asimov's mysteries
- unto the fourth generation - complete stories
- obituary - asimov's mysteries
- rain, rain go away - buy jupiter
- rejection slips - complete stories
- what is this thing called love - complete stories
- the machine that won the war - complete stories
- my son, the physicist - complete stories
- star light - asimov's mysteries
- eyes do more than see - complete stories
- founding father - buy jupiter
- the key - asimov's mysteries
- prime of life - bicentennial man
- the billiard ball - asimov's mysteries
- exile to hell = buy jupiter
- key item - buy jupiter
- the proper study - buy jupiter
- waterclap - bicentennial man
- 2430 ad - buy jupiter
- the greatest asset - buy jupiter
- take a match - buy jupiter
- thiotimoline to the stars - buy jupiter
- the dream - ?
- benjamin's dream - ?
- party by satellite - ?
- benjamin's bicentennial blast - ?
- half-baked publisher's delight - ?
- heavenly host - ?
- big game- ?
- the life and times of multivac - bicentennial man
- about nothing- winds of change
- the winnowing - the bicentennial man
- old fashioned - the bicentennial man
- marching in - the bicentennial man
- birth of a nation - the bicentennial man
- good taste - winds of change
- to tell at a glance - winds of change
- sure thing - winds of change
- found - winds of change
- fair exchange - winds of change
- nothing for nothing - winds of change
- how it happened - winds of change
- it is coming - winds of change
- the last answer - winds of change
- for the birds - winds of change
- death of a foy - winds of change
- the last shuttle - winds of change
- a perfect fit - winds of change
- ignition point - winds of change
- lest we remember -winds of change
- winds of change - winds of change
- one night of song - winds of change
- hallucination
- feghoot & the courts
- robot dreams
- left to right
- the fable of the three princes
- the smile of the chipper
- christmas without rodney
- the instability
- good-bye to earth
- too bad
- robot visions
- fault intolerant
- in the canyon
- kid brother
- gold
- cal
- prince delightful and the flameless dragon
- frustration
