ok, so these are the four i'm....not adding to the sequence.
there were two further collections, robot dreams [which features only the title story as a new robot work and mostly isn't even about robots at all] and robot visions [which is a reduced complete robot with a few other stories added, instead] that appended mildly - and disappointingly - to the robot collection. there's nothing worthwhile in either.
- christmas without rodney: grumpy old man bitching about bratty kids. i can relate, but meh.
- too bad: accepting the truth that chemo/radiation is a bad approach, mini robots to eat cancer isn't that far off from targeted gene therapy as a better solution. it's the same idea. although, it's worth pointing out that asimov had a phd in biochemistry, here, and still decided to use robots instead of chemistry; is that actually valuable foresight as to what approach is likely to actually work or is he missing the obvious? i'm curious how a microrobot would evade the macrophages, though, which opens up the opposite concern - microrobots as viruses. i'm going to keep this one in the other section.
- robot visions - so, maybe we'll have humaniform robots in the future and maybe we won't. and maybe we'll have peace, then. but, i wouldn't bet too much on it. this neither fits into the sequence - it's the opposite of it - nor is it that interesting, really.
so, that's that.
i've also put runaround back in the main sequence because asimov explains that it is the first story to use the robot laws, which does seem kind of important. i've then switched the orderings of sections II & III around a lot, splitting what was section II into two sections. i might combine II & III, in the end. i mean, i want each of these texts to be printable, in theory, so i don't want any to be too short. it's in progress.
asimov has suggested that his multivac stories should be catalogued with his robot stories, which i suspect i won't agree with, but will append volume II accordingly, if i do. otherwise, that volume seems to be done. call it the substantive robot.
that means that the (in)complete sequence is now as follows:
the essential asimov short stories:
book I: isolated short stories of value
- 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
- too bad
book II: the substantive robot. (story is about the slow humanization of robots)
- someday
- robbie
- light verse
- runaround
- reason
- lenny
- galley slave
- little lost robot
- evidence
- the evitable conflict
- feminine intuition
- ...that thou art mindful of him
- the bicentennial man
book III: side-stories in the robot universe
- satisfaction guaranteed
- robot al-76 goes astray
- catch that rabbit
- risk
- escape!
- liar!
- mirror image
- mother earth
(robot novels go here)
book IV: back-stories for rest of asimov's futuristic universe
- black friar of the flame
- homo sol
- the imaginary
- the hazing
- heredity
- death sentence
- blind alley
(novels pick up again from here)
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
- christmas without rodney
- robot dreams
- robot visions
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
- left to right
- the fable of the three princes
- the smile of the chipper
- the instability
- good-bye to earth
- fault intolerant
- in the canyon
- kid brother
- gold
- cal
- prince delightful and the flameless dragon
- frustration
