Isaac Asimov short stories bibliography

This list of short stories by Isaac Asimov is divided into published collections (along with a list of short stories which were noted by Asimov as having never been published in a collection, due to having been lost). Note, though, that some of his novels, such as Foundation, could also be considered short story collections, because they were originally published serially in stories that were relatively self-contained. Azazel and Magic contain fantasy stories — the other non-mystery collections contain mostly science fiction.

Unpublished/lost short stories

This list is from the Appendix from The Early Asimov titled The Sixty Stories of the Campbell Years.^[1]

• (1938)^[2] Cosmic Corkscrew (9,000 words)
• (1938)^[3] This Irrational Planet (3,000 words)
• (1938)^[4] The Weapon (4,000 words)
• (1938)^[4] Paths of Destiny (6,000 words)
• (1938)^[4] Knossos in Its Glory (6,000 words)
• (1939)^[5] The Decline and Fall (6,000 words)
• (1939)^[6] Life Before Birth (6,000 words)
• (1939)^[6] The Brothers (6,000 words)
• (1940)^[7] The Oak (6,000 words)
• (1941)^[8] Masks (1,500 words)
• (1941)^[9] Big Game (1,000 words)

These stories were all thought lost after being rejected, early in Asimov's career. (Asimov himself said that after this, all the short stories which he wrote were kept, even if they were rejected.)^[9] However, a copy of his story Big Game was later found among his papers at Boston University, and subsequently published in the anthology Before the Golden Age (1974). Also, after a number of rejections, his story The Weapon had actually been accepted and published under a pseudonym in 1942. At the time he compiled this list of lost stories, he had forgotten its publication. He discovered this while writing the first volume of his autobiography, In Memory Yet Green (1979), and reprinted the story in Section 30 of that book.

I, Robot (1950)

• (1940) Robbie
• (1942) Runaround
• (1941) Reason
• (1944) Catch That Rabbit
• (1941) Liar!
• (1947) Little Lost Robot
• (1945) Escape!
• (1946) Evidence
• (1950) The Evitable Conflict

The collection I, Robot also contains a framing story/linking text (at the beginning of the first story and end of the last story, and in between some - but not all - of the stories) not found anywhere else.

The Martian Way and Other Stories (1955)

• (1952) The Martian Way
• (1952) Youth
• (1952) The Deep
• (1954) Sucker Bait

Earth Is Room Enough (1957)

• (1951) The Fun They Had
• (1956) The Watery Place
• (1956) The Dead Past
• (1954) The Foundation of S.F. Success
• (1953) Kid Stuff
• (1955) Franchise
• (1956) Gimmicks Three
• (1956) Living Space
• (1955) The Message
• (1951) Satisfaction Guaranteed
• (1956) Hell-Fire
• (1955) The Last Trump
• (1956) Jokester
• (1953) The Immortal Bard
• (1956) Someday
• (1957) The Author's Ordeal
• (1955) Dreaming is a Private Thing

Nine Tomorrows (1959)

• (1958) The Feeling of Power
• (1958) The Ugly Little Boy
• (1956) The Dying Night
• (1957) I'm in Marsport Without Hilda
• (1958) I Just Make Them Up, See!
• (1957) Profession
• (1957) The Gentle Vultures
• (1958) All the Troubles of the World
• (1958) Spell My Name with an S
• (1956) The Last Question
• (1959) Rejection Slips

The Rest of the Robots (1964)

• (1942) Robot AL-76 Goes Astray
• (1942) Victory Unintentional
• (1956) First Law
• (1957) Let's Get Together
• (1955) Risk
• (1957) Galley Slave
• (1951) Satisfaction Guaranteed
• (1958) Lenny

Through a Glass, Clearly (1967)

• (1951) Breeds There a Man...?
• (1951) C-Chute
• (1954) It's Such a Beautiful Day
• (1953) Belief

Asimov's Mysteries (1968)

• (1955) The Singing Bell
• (1955) The Talking Stone
• (1956) What's in a Name?
• (1956) The Dying Night
• (1956) Pâté de Foie Gras
• (1957) The Dust of Death
• (1957) A Loint of Paw
• (1957) I'm in Marsport Without Hilda
• (1939) Marooned off Vesta
• (1959) Anniversary
• (1959) Obituary
• (1962) Star Light
• (1966) The Key
• (1967) The Billiard Ball

Nightfall and Other Stories (1969)

• (1941) Nightfall
• (1950) Green Patches
• (1951) Hostess
• (1951) Breeds There a Man...?
• (1951) C-Chute
• (1951) In a Good Cause-
• (1952) What If-
• (1953) Sally
• (1953) Flies
• (1953) Nobody Here But-
• (1954) It's Such a Beautiful Day
• (1957) Strikebreaker
• (1957) Insert Knob A in Hole B
• (1958) The Up-To-Date Sorcerer
• (1959) Unto the Fourth Generation
• (1961) What is This Thing Called Love?
• (1961) The Machine that Won the War
• (1962) My Son, the Physicist
• (1965) Eyes Do More Than See
• (1967) Segregationist

The Early Asimov (1972)

• (1939) The Callistan Menace
• (1940) Ring Around the Sun
• (1940) The Magnificent Possession
• (1939) Trends
• (1939) The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use
• (1942) Black Friar of the Flame
• (1940) Half-Breed
• (1941) The Secret Sense
• (1940) Homo Sol
• (1940) Half-Breeds on Venus
• (1942) The Imaginary
• (1941) Heredity
• (1941) History
• (1942) Christmas on Ganymede
• (1950) The Little Man on the Subway
• (1942) The Hazing
• (1941) Super-Neutron
• (1941) Not Final!
• (1950) Legal Rites
• (1942) Time Pussy
• (1964) Author! Author!
• (1943) Death Sentence
• (1945) Blind Alley
• (1948) No Connection
• (1948) The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline
• (1949) The Red Queen's Race
• (1949) Mother Earth

Tales of the Black Widowers (1974)

• (1972) The Acquisitive Chuckle
• (1972) Ph as in Phony
• (1972) Truth to Tell
• (1972) Go, Little Book!
• (1973) Early Sunday Morning
• (1973) The Obvious Factor
• (1973) The Pointing Finger
• (1973) Miss What?
• (1973) Out of Sight
• (1974) The Lullaby of Broadway
• (1974) Yankee Doodle Went to Town
• (1974) The Curious Omission

Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975)

• (1950) Darwinian Pool Room
• (1950) Day of the Hunters
• (1951) Shah Guido G.
• (1952) Button, Button
• (1952) The Monkey's Finger
• (1953) Everest
• (1954) The Pause
• (1954) Let's Not
• (1956) Each an Explorer
• (1957) Blank!
• (1957) Does a Bee Care?
• (1957) Silly Asses
• (1958) Buy Jupiter
• (1958) A Statue for Father
• (1959) Rain, Rain, Go Away
• (1965) Founding Father
• (1968) Exile to Hell
• (1968) Key Item
• (1968) The Proper Study
• (1970) 2430 A.D.
• (1971) The Greatest Asset
• (1972) Take a Match
• (1973) Thiotimoline to the Stars
• (1973) Light Verse

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976)

• (1966) The Prime of Life (poem)
• (1969) Feminine Intuition
• (1970) Waterclap
• (1974) That Thou Art Mindful of Him
• (1974) Stranger in Paradise
• (1975) The Life and Times of Multivac
• (1976) The Winnowing
• (1976) The Bicentennial Man
• (1976) Marching In
• (1976) Old-fashioned
• (1976) The Tercentenary Incident
• (1976) Birth of a Notion

More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976)

• (1974) When No Man Pursueth
• (1974) Quicker Than the Eye
• (1974) The Iron Gem
• (1974) The Three Numbers
• (1974) Nothing Like Murder
• (1974) No Smoking
• (1976) Season's Greetings!
• (1975) The One and Only East
• (1975) Earthset and Evening Star
• (1975) Friday the Thirteenth
• (1976) The Unabridged
• (1976) The Ultimate Crime

Casebook of the Black Widowers (1980)

• (1976) The Cross of Lorraine
• (1976) The Family Man
• (1977) The Sports Page
• (1980) Second Best
• (1977) The Missing Item
• (1978) The Next Day
• (1979) Irrelevance!
• (1979) None So Blind
• (1979) The Backward Look
• (1980) What Time Is It?
• (1980) Middle Name
• (1979) To the Barest

The Union Club Mysteries (1983)

• (1980) No Refuge Could Save
• (1980) The Telephone Number
• (1980) The Men Who Wouldn't Talk
• (1980) A Clear Shot
• (1981) Irresistible to Women
• (1981) He Wasn't There
• (1981) The Thin Line
• (1981) Mystery Tune
• (1981) Hide and Seek
• (1981) Gift
• (1981) Hot or Cold
• (1981) The Thirteenth Page
• (1981) 1 to 999
• (1981) Twelve Years Old
• (1981) Testing, Testing!
• (1981) The Appleby Story
• (1982) Dollars and Cents
• (1982) Friends and Allies
• (1982) Which is Which?
• (1982) The Sign
• (1982) Catching the Fox
• (1982) Getting the Combination
• (1982) The Library Book
• (1982) The Three Goblets
• (1982) Spell It!
• (1982) Two Women
• (1982) Sending a Signal
• (1982) The Favourite Piece
• (1983) Half a Ghost
• (1983) There Was a Young Lady

The Winds of Change and Other Stories (1983)

• (1977) About Nothing
• (1981) A Perfect Fit
• (1953) Belief
• (1980) Death of a Foy
• (1979) Fair Exchange?
• (1980) For the Birds
• (1978) Found!
• (1976) Good Taste
• (1979) How It Happened
• (1957) Ideas Die Hard
• (1981) Ignition Point!
• (1979) It Is Coming
• (1980) The Last Answer
• (1981) The Last Shuttle
• (1982) Lest We Remember
• (1979) Nothing for Nothing
• (1982) One Night of Song
• (1982) The Smile That Loses
• (1977) Sure Thing
• (1983) To Tell at a Glance
• (1982) The Winds of Change

Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984)

• (1980) Sixty Million Trillion Combinations
• (1980) The Woman in the Bar
• (1984) The Driver
• (1980) The Good Samaritan
• (1980) The Year of the Action
• (1981) Can You Prove It?
• (1982) The Phoenician Bauble
• (1983) A Monday in April
• (1984) Neither Brute nor Human
• (1984) The Redhead
• (1984) The Wrong House
• (1984) The Intrusion

Azazel (1988)

• (1982) One Night of Song
• (1982) The Smile That Loses
• (1988) The Two-Centimeter Demon
• (1982) To the Victor
• (1982) The Dim Rumble
• (1983) Saving Humanity
• (1983) A Matter of Principle
• (1984) The Evil Drink Does
• (1984) Writing Time
• (1984) Dashing Through the Snow
• (1985) Logic Is Logic
• (1985) He Travels the Fastest
• (1985) The Eye of the Beholder
• (1986) More Things in Heaven and Earth
• (1986) The Mind's Construction
• (1986) The Fights of Spring
• (1987) Galatea
• (1988) Flight of Fancy

Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1990)

• (1985) The Fourth Homonym
• (1985) Unique Is Where You Find It
• (1990) The Lucky Piece
• (1985) Triple Devil
• (1986) Sunset on the Water
• (1986) Where Is He?
• (1987) The Old Purse
• (1988) The Quiet Place
• (1990) The Four-Leaf Clover
• (1989) The Envelope
• (1989) The Alibi
• (1990) The Recipe

Gold (1995)

• (1990) Cal
• (1987) Left to Right
• (1991) Frustration
• (1995) Hallucination
• (1989) The Instability
• (1995) Alexander the God
• (1995) In the Canyon
• (1989) Good-bye to Earth
• (1995) Battle-Hymn
• (1995) Feghoot and the Courts
• (1990) Fault-Intolerant
• (1990) Kid Brother
• (1995) The Nations in Space
• (1989) The Smile of the Chipper
• (1991) Gold

Magic (1996)

• (1989) Thinking about Thinking
• (1989) To Your Health
• (1992) The Critic on the Hearth
• (1991) It's a Job
• (1991) Baby, It's Cold Outside
• (1990) The Time Traveller
• (1990) Wine Is a Mocker
• (1989) The Mad Scientist
• (1987) The Fable of the Three Princes
• (1994) March Against the Foe
• (1989) Northwestward
• (1991) Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon
• (1985) Magic
• (1986) Sword and Sorcery
• (1991) Concerning Tolkien
• (1985) In Days of Old
• (1985) Giants in the Earth
• (1982) When Fantasy Became Fantasy
• (1978) The Reluctant Critic
• (1986) The Unicorn
• (1987) Unknown
• (1978) Extraordinary Voyages
• (1985) Fairy Tales
• (1986) Dear Judy-Lynn
• (1984) Fantasy
• (1990) Reading and Writing
• (1996) The Right Answer
• (1989) Ignorance in America
• (1989) Knock Plastic!
• (1989) Lost in Non-Translation
• (1989) Look Long Upon a Monkey

The Return of the Black Widowers (2003)

• (1972) The Acquisitive Chuckle (previously collected in Tales of the Black Widowers)
• (1973) Early Sunday Morning (previously collected in Tales of the Black Widowers)
• (1973) The Obvious Factor (previously collected in Tales of the Black Widowers)
• (1974) The Iron Gem (previously collected in More Tales of the Black Widowers)
• (1979) To the Barest (previously collected in Casebook of the Black Widowers)
• (1980) Sixty Million Trillion Combinations (previously collected in Banquets of the Black Widowers)
• (1984) The Wrong House (previously collected in Banquets of the Black Widowers)
• (1984) The Redhead (previously collected in Banquets of the Black Widowers)
• (1985) Triple Devil (previously collected in Puzzles of the Black Widowers)
• (1990) Northwestward
• (1990) Yes, But Why
• (1990) Lost In a Space Warp
• (1990) Police at the Door
• (1990) The Haunted Cabin
• (1991) The Guest's Guest
• (1980) The Woman in the Bar (previously collected in Banquets of the Black Widowers)

References

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