updated nov 30th to include texts from the bicentennial man (and other stories) and also to move a number of texts books around based on concepts in the first two robot novels (caves of steel, naked sun). i've also reordered the books.
updates in bold and italic.
the essential asimov short stories:
book I: the substantive robot. (story is about the slow humanization of robots. set before robot novels.)
- 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 II: 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!
book III robot trilogy compendium:
- mother earth [leads into robot trilogy]
- caves of steel
- the naked sun
- mirror image [baley/daneel story]
- the robots of dawn
appendix (maybe, add to book V):
- trends
- shah guido g
- living space
- profession
book IV: pre-stories for rest of asimov's futuristic universe
- hostess
- black friar of the flame
- homo sol
- the imaginary
- the hazing
- heredity
- green patches
- c-chute
- sucker bait
- death sentence
- blind alley
book V: foundation novels
- robots and empire
- ...
book VI: unrelated short stories of value
- the weapon too dreadful to use
- half-breed
- the secret sense
- nightfall
- super-neutron
- not final! + victory unintentional
- no connection
- red queen's race
- breeds there a man
- youth
- the martian way
- the deep
- sally
- kid stuff
- the immortal bard
- dreaming is a private thing
- the dead past
- each an explorer
- the watery place
- strikebreaker
- let's get together
- the gentle vultures
- the ugly little boy
- eyes do more than see
- founding father
- segregationist
- 2430 ad / the greatest asset
- the winnowing
- old fashioned
- marching in
- too bad
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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
- 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!
- prime of life
- exile to hell
- the proper study
- waterclap
- take a match
- thiotimoline to the stars
- stranger in paradise
- the life and times of multivac
- a boy's best friend
- point of view
- birth of a notion
- tercentenary incident
- think!
- true love
- christmas without rodney
- robot dreams
- robot visions
uncatalogued until last:
- marooned off vesta - asimov's mysteries
- belief - winds of change
- the singing bell - asimov's mysteries
- the talking stone asimov's mysteries
- what's in a name - asimv's mysteries
- pate de foie grras - asimov's mysteries
- 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
