updated nov 21st to include texts from buy jupiter (and other stories) and the martian way
updates in bold and italic.
the essential asimov short stories:
book I: isolated short stories of value
- trends
- the weapon too dreadful to use
- half-breed
- the secret sense
- nightfall
- super-neutron
- not final! + victory unintentional
- no connection
- red queen's race
- hostess
- breeds there a man
- youth
- the martian way
- the deep
- sally
- kid stuff
- the immortal bard
- dreaming is a private thing
- the dead past
- living space
- each an explorer
- the watery place
- strikebreaker
- let's get together
- profession
- the gentle vultures
- the ugly little boy
- eyes do more than see
- founding father
- segregationist
- 2430 ad / the greatest asset
- too bad
book II: the substantive robot. (story is about the slow humanization of robots)
- it's such a beautiful day
- the fun they had
- key item
- 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 (including selected multivac stories)
- jokester
- all the troubles of the world
- franchise
- satisfaction guaranteed
- robot al-76 goes astray
- the feeling of power
- 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
- green patches
- c-chuite
- sucker bait
- 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
- time pussy
- the little man on the subway
- legal rites
- darwinian poolroom
- day of the hunters
- the endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimiline
- in a good cause
- shah guidio g
- what if
- button, button
- monkey's finger
- nobody here but-
- flies
- everest
- the pause
- foundations of sf success
- lets not
- the last trump
- the message
- hell-fire
- the dying night
- first law
- gimmick's three
- the last question
- the author's ordeal
- blank
- does a bee care?
- i'm in marsport without hilda
- insert knob a in hole b
- spell my name with an s
- i just make them up, see
- silly asses
- buy jupiter
- the uptodate sorcerer
- a statue for father
- unto the fourth generation
- rain, rain go away
- rejection slips
- what is this thing called love
- the machine that won the war
- my son, the physicist
- author! author!
- exile to hell
- the proper study
- take a match
- thiotimoline to the stars
- stranger in paradise
- a boy's best friend
- point of view
- tercentenary incident
- think!
- true love
- christmas without rodney
- robot dreams
- robot visions
next:
- prime of life - bicentennial man
- waterclap - bicentennial man
- the life and times of multivac - bicentennial man
- the winnowing - the bicentennial man
- old fashioned - the bicentennial man
- marching in - the bicentennial man
- birth of a nation - the bicentennial man
uncatalogued until last:
- marooned off vesta ----first story
- belief <-----1953
- the singing bell <-----1955
- the talking stone <-------1955
- what's in a name <----------1956
- pate de foie grras <---------1956
- dust of death - asimov's mysteries
- a loint of paw - asimov's mysteries
- ideas die hard - winds of change
- anniversary - asimov's mysteries
- obituary - asimov's mysteries
- star light - asimov's mysteries
- the key - asimov's mysteries
- the billiard ball - asimov's mysteries
- the dream - ?
- benjamin's dream - ?
- party by satellite - ?
- benjamin's bicentennial blast - ?
- half-baked publisher's delight - ?
- heavenly host - ?
- big game- ?
- about nothing- winds of change
- 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