Isaac Asimov's Short Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Copyright © 1995 by Edward Seiler. All rights reserved.

The Guide to Asimov's Short Fiction

Marooned off Vesta

First Published In: Amazing Stories, March 1939, pp. 66-77
Reprinted In: Amazing Stories, March 1959, pp. 8-23
Collections:

• Asimov's Mysteries
  
• The Best of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  

Anthologies:

• The Best of Amazing, Joseph Ross, ed. Doubleday, 1967, pp. 89-106
  
• Orbit #2 (graphic adaptation), Eclipse Books (pbk), October 1990
  

The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use

First Published In: Amazing Stories, May 1939, pp. 110-122
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• The Future Makers, Peter Haining, ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1968, pp. 11-27
  
• The Future Makers, Peter Haining, ed. New English Library (pbk), 1968, pp. 20-34
  
• Science Fiction Special 5, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1971
  

Trends

Title Before Publication: Ad Astra
First Published In: Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1939, pp. 33-46
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• Men Against the Stars, Martin Greenberg, ed. Gnome, 1950, pp. 13-34
  
• Great Science-Fiction Stories About the Moon, T. E. Dikty, ed. F. Fell, 1967, pp. 177-200
  
• First Flights to the Moon, Hal Clement, ed. Doubleday, 1970, pp. 40-63
  
• A Spectrum of Worlds, Thomas D. Clareson, ed. Doubleday, 1972, pp. 123-143
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 1 (1939), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1979, pp. 229-247
  
• Astounding Science Fiction July 1939, John W. Campbell, Jr., ed. So. Illinois University Press, 1981
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction (omnibus edition), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Bonanza Books, 1983, pp. 229-247
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Men Against the Stars, Martin Greenberg, ed. Grayson, 1951
  

Note: The first story to predict popular opposition to space exploration.

Half-Breed

First Published In: Astonishing Stories, February 1940, pp. 38-53
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• The Space Magicians, Alden H. Norton and Sam Moskowitz, ed. Pyramid, 1971, pp. 100-122
  
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow..., Bonnie L. Heintz, Frank Herbert, Donald A. Joos and Jane Agorn McGee, eds. Holt, Rinehart & Winston (pbk), 1974
  Ackermanthology (as "The Tweenie"), Forrest J Ackerman, ed. General Publishing Group (pbk.), April 1997, pp. 41-58
  

Ring Around the Sun

First Published In: Future Fiction, March 1940, pp. 89-98
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

The Callistan Menace

Title Before Publication: Stowaway
First Published In: Astonishing Stories, April 1940, pp. 66-77
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Excerpted In: Opus 100, pp. 5-6
Anthologies:

• Futures Unlimited, Alden H. Norton, ed. Pyramid (pbk), 1969,
  

The Magnificent Possession

Title Before Publication: Ammonium
First Published In: Future Fiction, July 1940, pp. 71-81
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Homo Sol

First Published In: Astounding Science-Fiction, September 1940, pp. 117-131
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• The Omnibus of Science Fiction, Groff Conklin, ed. Crown, 1952, pp. 214-229
  
• Science Fiction Omnibus, Groff Conklin, ed. Berkley, 1956, pp. 67-87
  

Robbie

Title When First Published: Strange Playfellow
First Published In: Super Science Stories, September 1940, pp. 67-77
Collections:

• I, Robot
  
• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• Robot Visions
  

Excerpted In: Opus 100, p. 61
Anthologies:

• Shot in the Dark (as "Strange Playfellow"), Judith Merril, ed. Bantam, 1950, pp. 183-197
  
• Science Fiction Today - History Tomorrow??, Bantam, 1953, pp. 1-17
  
• Science Fiction Thinking Machines, Groff Conklin, ed. Vanguard, 1954, pp. 15-33
  
• Selections From Science Fiction Thinking Machines, Groff Conklin, ed. Bantam (pbk), 1955, pp. 1-17
  
• Of Men and Machines, Arthur O. Lewis Jr., ed. E.P. Dutton (pbk), 1963
  
• Tales Beyond Time, L. Sprague DeCamp and Catherine C. DeCamp, eds. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1973, pp. 134-159
  
• Masterpieces of Science Fiction, Thomas Durwood and Armand Eisen, eds. Kansas City: Ariel Books (pbk), May 1978, pp. 97-107
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 2 (1940), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1979, pp. 206-218
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction(Volume 2 in omnibus edition), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Bonanza Books, 1980, pp. 206-218
  
• Science Fiction A to Z, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Houghton Mifflin, 1982, pp. 423-438
  
• Yesterday's Tomorrows (as "Strange Playfellow"), Frederik Pohl, ed. Berkley, Oct 1982, pp. 72-85
  
• Machines That Think, Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984, pp. 68-89
  
• Science Fiction, Science Fact, and You, Robert J. Lowenherz & Lila Lowenherz, eds. Amsco School Publications (pbk), 1996, pp. 141-163
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Les Robots, Paris: Hatier, 1984
  

Half-Breeds on Venus

First Published In: Astonishing Stories, December 1940, pp. 6-24
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

History

First Published In: Super Science Stories, March 1941, pp. 86-93
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

The Secret Sense

First Published In: Cosmic Stories, March 1941, pp. 87-95
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• Futures to Infinity, Sam Moskowitz, ed. Pyramid, 1970, pp. 167-180
  

Reason

First Published In: Astounding Science-Fiction, April 1941, pp. 33-45
Reprinted In: Read, January 3, 1979, pp. 12-19
Collections:

• I, Robot
  
• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• Robot Visions
  

Anthologies:

• A Century of Science Fiction, Damon Knight, ed. Simon & Schuster, 1962, pp. 26-41
  
• Space Odysseys: a New Look at Yesterday's Futures, Brian W. Aldiss, ed. Doubleday, 1976, pp. 59-76
  
• Decade, the 1940s, Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison, eds. St. Martin's Press, 1978, pp. 42-60
  
• Science Fiction of the 40's, Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Avon (pbk), Oct 1978, pp. 29-44
  
• The Road to Science Fiction #3, James E. Gunn, ed. NAL/Mentor (pbk), Dec 1979, pp. 40-56
  
• Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology, Eric S. Rabkin, ed. Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. 318-338
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Beaufort Books, 1984, pp. 209-226
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• A Nyikorgo Idegen, Budapest: Mora Ference Konyvkiado, 1971
  
• Klett Lesehefte Science Fiction, Stuttgart: Ernest Klett, 1972
  
• Der Irre Mull Schlucker Und Ander Science Fiction Stories, Hanna Bautze, ed. Ravensburg: Otto Maler, 1973
  
• Space Odysseys: a New Look at Yesterday's Futures, Brian W. Aldiss, ed. Futura (pbk), 1974
  
• Space Odysseys: a New Look at Yesterday's Futures, Brian W. Aldiss, ed. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975
  
• Decade, the 1940s, Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison, eds. London: MacMillan, 1975
  
• Maschin Enmemscchen: Science Fiction Aus Grossbritannien Und Den USA, Erik Simon, ed. East Berlin, 1980
  
• Das Grosse Heyne Jubilaums Buch, Munich: Wilhelm Heyne, 1983
  
• A Selection From Fantasy and Science Fiction, Tokyo: Bunri
  

Heredity

Title Before Publication: Twins
First Published In: Astonishing Stories, April 1941, pp. 8-25
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• Beyond the End of Time, Frederik Pohl, ed. Doubleday, 1952, pp. 45-76
  

Liar!

First Published In: Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1941, pp. 43-55
Collections:

• I, Robot
  
• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• Robot Visions
  

Excerpted In: Opus 100, p. 62
Anthologies:

• Human?, Judith Merril, ed. Lion Books, 1954, pp. 138-158
  
• Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction, Sam Moskowitz, ed. World, 1965, pp. 295-315
  
• Master's Choice, Laurence M. Janifer, ed. Simon & Schuster, 1966, pp. 15-33
  
• Doorway Into Time, Sam Moskowitz, ed. McFadden Bartell, 1966, pp. 117-133
  
• Mind to Mind: Nine Stories of Science Fiction, Robert Silverberg, ed. Thomas Nelson, 1971, pp. 102-129
  
• In Dreams Awake, Leslie A. Fiedler, ed. Dell (pbk), 1975
  
• Approaches to Science Fiction, Donald L. Lawler, ed. Houghton Mifflin, 1978, pp. 348-363
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 3 (1941), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1980, pp. 131-147
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction, Second Series (omnibus edition), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Bonanza Books, 1980, pp. 131-147
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Les Robots, Paris: Hatier, 1984
  
• Space Movies II: Famous Science Fiction Television Series, Peter Haining, ed. London: Severn House, March 1996, pp. 190-212
  

Nightfall

First Published In: Astounding Science-Fiction, September 1941, pp. 9-34
Reprinted In: Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1990, pp. 245-271
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Best of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Edge Of Tomorrow
• Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Adventures in Time and Space, Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas, eds. Random House, 1946, pp. 378-411
  
• Adventures in Time and Space, Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas, eds. Grayson, 1952
  
• The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology, John W. Campbell, ed. Simon & Schuster, 1952, pp. 105-136
  
• Adventures in Time and Space, Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas, eds. Random House, 1953
  
• More Adventures in Time and Space, Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas, eds. Bantam Books (pbk), Feb 1955, pp. 67-98
  
• The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology, John W. Campbell, ed. Berkley (pbk), 1956
  
• Famous Science Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space, Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas, eds. Modern Library, 1957, pp. 378-411
  
• Great Science Fiction Stories, Cordelia Titcomb Smith, ed. Dell (pbk), 1964
  
• Beyond Tomorrow, Damon Knight, ed. Harper & Row, 1965, pp. 173-228
  
• The Mirror Of Infinity: A Critics' Anthology of Science Fiction, Robert Silverberg, ed. Harper & Row, 1970, pp. 49-91
  
• Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1, Robert Silverberg, ed. Doubleday, 1970, pp. 112-143
  
• Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume 1, Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, eds. Doubleday, 1972, pp. 168-203
  
• The Other Dimension, Sara Rosner, ed. Scholastic Book Services, 1972, pp. 51-100
  
• A Science Fiction Reader, Harry Harrison and Carol Pugner, eds. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973, pp. 201-238
  
• Anthropology Through Science Fiction, Carol Mason, Martin H. Greenberg, and Patricia Warrick, eds. St. Martin's Press, 1974, pp. 312-343
  
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow..., Bonnie L. Heintz, Frank Herbert, Donald A. Joos and Jane Agorn McGee, eds. Holt, Rinehart & Winston (pbk), 1974
  
• Modern Science Fiction, Norman Spinrad, ed. Anchor Press, 1974; Gregg Press, 1976, pp. 70-108
  
• Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age, Terry Carr, ed. Harper & Row, 1978, pp. 238-278
  
• The Road to Science Fiction #2, James E. Gunn, ed. NAL/Mentor (pbk), Feb 1979, pp. 475-508
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 3 (1941), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1980, pp. 263-297
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction, Second Series (omnibus edition), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Bonanza Books, 1980, pp. 263-297
  
• Analog's Expanding Universe, Stanley Schmidt, ed. Longmeadow, July 1986, pp. 171-197
  
• Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology, Patricia S. Warrick, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Harper & Row, 1988, pp. 127-153
  
• Astounding Stories: The 60th Anniversary Collection, Volume 2, James Gunn, ed. Easton Press, 1990, pp. 3-36
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Uberwindung Von Raum Und Zeit, Gotthard Gunther, ed. Karl Rauch, 1952
  
• Penguin Science Fiction, Brian W. Aldiss, ed. Middlesex: Penguin (pbk), 1961, pp. 145-179
  
• The Best Science Fiction Stories 3 (Great Science Fiction Stories), Cordelia Titcomb Smith, ed. Dell (pbk), 1964
  
• The Second Astounding Science Fiction Anthology, John W. Campbell, ed. Four Square Books (pbk), 1965
  
• Science Fiction, S. H. Burton, ed. Longman (pbk), 1967, pp. 120-171
  
• A Pokolbatarto Vonat, Budapest: Gondolat, 1970
  
• The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus, Brian W. Aldiss, ed. Middlesex: Penguin (pbk), 1974, pp. 126-155
  
• Fontein Science Fiction, Brian Aldiss, ed. Uitgeverij De Fontein, 1976
  

Super-Neutron

First Published In: Astonishing Stories, September 1941, pp. 36-43
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Excerpted In: Opus 100, p. 147

Not Final!

First Published In: Astounding Science-Fiction, October 1941, pp. 49-61
Collections:

• The Early Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• Possible Worlds of Science Fiction, Groff Conklin, ed. Vanguard, 1951, pp. 79-95
  
• Possible Worlds of Science Fiction, Groff Conklin, ed. Berkley (pbk), 1955, pp. 60-77
  
• Time Probe: The Sciences in SF, Arthur C. Clarke, ed. Delacorte, 1966, pp. 117-135
  
• Toward Infinity, Damon Knight, ed. Simon & Schuster, 1968, pp. 194-216
  
• Selections From Possible Worlds of Science Fiction, Groff Conklin, ed. Berkley, 1968
  
• First Contact, Damon Knight, ed. Pinnacle (pbk), 1971
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Possible Worlds of Science Fiction, Groff Conklin, ed. Grayson, 1951
  
• Asleep in Armageddon, Michael Sissons, ed. Panther (pbk), 1962
  
• Encounters, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. London: Headline (pbk), 1988, pp. 296-315
  

Christmas on Ganymede

First Published In: Startling Stories, January 1942, pp. 83-92
Reprinted In: Wonder Story Annual, 1953 Edition, pp. 85-95
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• Adventures in Tomorrow, Kendall F. Crossen, ed. Greenberg, 1951, pp. 110-126
  
• To Follow a Star: Nine Science Fiction Stories About Christmas, Terry Carr, ed. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1977, pp. 11-29
  
• Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories, Martin H. Greenberg, ed. Avon (pbk), December 1990, pp. 28-49
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Santa 2000, Michel Parry, ed. London: Granada, November 1984, pp. 64-81
  

Robot AL-76 Goes Astray

Title Before Publication: Source of Power
First Published In: Amazing Stories, February 1942, pp. 218-
Reprinted In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1967, pp. 107-???
Amazing Stories, April 1956, pp. 204-215, 221
Collections:

• The Rest of the Robots
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  

Anthologies:

• My Best Science Fiction Story, Leo Margulies and Oscar J. Friend, eds. Merlin, 1949, pp. 3-19
  
• My Best Science Fiction Story, Leo Margulies and Oscar J. Friend, eds. Pocket Books, 1954, pp. 3-19
  
• The Monster Makers: Creators and Creations of Fantasy and Horror, Peter Haining, ed. Taplinger, 1974, pp. 253-269
  
• Amazing Science Fiction Stories: The War Years 1936-1945, Martin H. Greenberg, ed. TSR (pbk), May 1987, pp. 11-28
  

Runaround

First Published In: Astounding Science-Fiction, March 1942, pp. 94-103
Collections:

• I, Robot
  
• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• Robot Visions
  

Anthologies:

• The Coming of the Robots, Sam Moskowitz, ed. Collier, 1963, pp. 99-127
  
• As Tomorrow Becomes Today, Charles W. Sullivan III, ed. Prentice-Hall (pbk), 1974, pp. 222-237
  
• Machines That Think, Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984, pp. 209-229
  
• Hallucination Orbit: Psychology in Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1983, pp. 127-151
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• 13 Science Fiction Stories, Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam, 1985
  

Time Pussy

First Published In: Astounding Science-Fiction, April 1942, pp. 113-114
Note: Published under the pseudonym George E. Dale
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Foundation

First Published In: Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1942, pp. 38-52
Collections:

• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  

Anthologies:

• Galactic Empires, Volume 1, Brian W. Aldiss, ed. St. Martin's Press, 1976, pp. 90-126
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 4 (1942), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1980, pp. 77-109
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction, Second Series (omnibus edition), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Bonanza Books, 1980, pp. 392-424
  

Note: Part one of Foundation

The Weapon

First Published In: Super Science Stories, May 1942
Collection:

• In Memory Yet Green
  

Black Friar of the Flame

First Published In: Planet Stories, Spring 1942, pp. 2-27
Reprinted In: Tops in Science Fiction, pp. 103-128
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Bridle and Saddle

First Published In: Astounding Science-Fiction, June 1942, pp. 9-30
Collections:

• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  

Anthologies:

• Men Against the Stars, Martin Greenberg, ed. Gnome, 1950, pp. 281-334
  
• Astounding Stories: The 60th Anniversary Collection, Volume 2, James Gunn, ed. Easton Press, 1990, pp. 37-80
  

Note: Part two of Foundation

Victory Unintentional

First Published In: Super Science Stories, August 1942, pp. 86-99
Collections:

• The Rest of the Robots
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  

Anthologies:

• Invasion from Mars, Orson Welles, ed. Dell (pbk), 1949, pp. 142-164
  
• Looking Forward, Milton A. Lesser, ed. Beechhurst Press, 1953, pp. 230-250
  
• The Days After Tomorrow, Hans S. Santesson, ed. Little, Brown, 1971, pp. 65-91
  
• Jupiter, Carol Pohl and Frederik Pohl, eds. Ballantine (pbk), 1973, pp. 39-64
  
  
• Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age, Terry Carr, ed. Harper & Row, 1978, pp. 376-398
  

Anthologies:

• Out of This World 8, Amabel Williams-Ellis and Mably Owen, eds. London: Blackie, 1970
  

The Hazing

First Published In: Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1942, pp. 89-97
Collections:

• The Early Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

The Imaginary

First Published In: Super Science Stories, November 1942, pp. 74-85
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• The Human Zero, Sam Moskowitz & Roger Elwood, eds. Tower (pbk), 1967

Death Sentence

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, November 1943, pp. 32-47
Collections:

• The Early Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Outer Reaches, August W. Derleth, ed. Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1950, pp. 31-51
  
• The Outer Reaches, August W. Derleth, ed. Berkley Books (pbk), 1958
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Histoires Galactiques, Gerald Klein, ed. Paris: Le Livre De Poche, 1975
  
• The Outer Reaches, August W. Derleth, ed. Consul (pbk), 1963
  

Catch That Rabbit

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, February 1944, pp. 159-178
Collections:

• I, Robot
  
• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  

The Big and the Little

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, August 1944, pp. 7-54
Collections:

• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  

Anthologies:

• The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Carroll & Graf, 1989, pp. 313-368
  

Note: Part three of Foundation

The Wedge

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, October 1944, pp. 64-79
Collections:

• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  

Note: Part four of Foundation

Blind Alley

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, March 1945, pp. 139-157
Collections:

• The Early Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Best of Science Fiction, Groff Conklin, ed. Crown, 1946, pp. 622-640
  
• The Best of Science Fiction, Groff Conklin, ed. Crown, 1963, pp. 368-386
  
• Great Stories of Space Travel, Groff Conklin, ed. Grosset & Dunlap, 1963, pp. 180-207
  
• The Golden Age of Science Fiction, Groff Conklin, ed. Bonanza Books, 1980
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 7 (1945), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1982, pp. 80-104
  
• Intergalactic Empires, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Signet, 1983, pp. 163-185
  

Dead Hand

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, April 1945, pp. 6-60
Excerpted In: Opus 100, pp. 243-248
Collections:

• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  

Note: Part one of Foundation and Empire
Nominated for 1996 Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella

Escape!

Title When First Published: Paradoxical Escape
First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, August 1945, pp. 79-98
Collections:

• I, Robot
  
• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  

The Mule

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, November 1945 (Part 1) pp. 7-53, December 1945 (Part 2) pp. 139-144
Collections:

• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  

Note: Part two of Foundation and Empire
Winner of the 1996 Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel

Evidence

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, September 1946, pp. 121-140
Collections:

• I, Robot
  
• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• Robot Visions
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Pseudo-People, William F. Nolan, ed. Sherbourne Press, 1965, pp. 79-102
  
• Political Science Fiction, Martin H. Greenberg, ed. Prentice-Hall, 1974, pp. 171-192
  
• The Androids are Coming, Robert Silverberg, ed. Thomas Nelson Books, 1979, pp. 60-87
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 8 (1946), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1982, pp. 276-298
  
• Election Day 2084, Isaac Asimov, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Prometheus Books, 1984, pp. 282-301
  
• Machines That Think, Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984, pp. 380-404
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction, Fourth Series (omnibus edition), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Bonanza Books, 1984, pp. 80-104
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Strange Universe, Amabel Williams-Ellis and Michael Pearson, eds. Glasgow: Blackie, 1974, pp. 78-103
  
• Les Robots, Paris: Hatier, 1984
  
• Almost Human: Androids in Science Fiction, William F. Nolan, ed. London: Souvenir Press, pp. 79-102
  

Little Lost Robot

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, March 1947, pp. 120-132
Collections:

• I, Robot
  
• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• Robot Visions
  

Anthologies:

• Best SF #2, Edmund Crispin, ed. Faber & Faber, 1956, pp. 102-128
  
• The Stars and Under, Edmund Crispin, ed. Faber & Faber, 1968, pp. 72-108
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 9 (1947), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1983, pp. 15-41
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction, Fifth Series (omnibus edition), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Bonanza Books, 1985, pp. 15-41
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Die Zietpolizei, Rene Oth, ed. Darmstadt: Hermann Luchterhand, 1985
  

Now You See It...

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, January 1948, pp. 7-61
Collections:

• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  

Note: Part one of Second Foundation

The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, March 1948, pp. 120-125
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  
• Included in the non-fiction collection Only a Trillion, as "The Marvellous Properties of Thiotimoline, Part I"
  

Anthologies:

• The Analog Anthology #1, Stanley Schmidt, ed. Davis Publications, 1981, pp. 178-183
  
• Shaggy B.E.M. Stories, Mike Resnick, ed. Nolacon Press, 1988, pp. 100-108
  

No Connection

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, June 1948, pp. 72-87
Collections:

• The Early Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  

Anthologies:

• The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949, Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty, eds. Fredrick Fell, 1949, pp. 226-249
  
• Science Fiction Omnibus, Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty, eds. Doubleday, 1952, pp. 226-249
  

The Red Queen's Race

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, January 1949, pp. 65-86
Collections:

• The Early Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• World of Wonder, Fletcher Pratt, ed. Twayne, 1951, pp. 68-94
  
• A Science Fiction Argosy, Damon Knight, ed. Simon & Schuster, 1972, pp. 27-49
  
• The Future I, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Fawcett Crest, 1981, pp. 347-376
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 11 (1949), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1984, pp. 12-35
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction, Sixth Series (omnibus edition), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Bonanza Books, 1988, pp. 12-35
  

Mother Earth

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, May 1949, pp. 59-92
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• Journey to Infinity, Martin Greenberg, ed. Gnome, 1951, pp. 159-195
  
• 3 From Out There, Leo Margulies, ed. Fawcett, 1959, pp. 7-46
  

...And Now You Don't

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, November 1949 (Part 1) pp. 5-40, December 1949 (Part 2) pp. 120-161, January 1950 (Part 3) pp. 111-152
Collections:

• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  

Note: Part two of Second Foundation

The Little Man on the Subway

First Published In: Fantasy Book, Number 6 (January 1950) pp. 4-19
Note: A collaboration with Frederik Pohl, who used the pseudonym James MacCreigh
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• Science and Sorcery, Garrett Ford, ed. Fantasy Publications, 1951, pp. 61-78
  
• Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown, Marvin Kaye, ed. Guild America (Science Fiction Book Club), 1993, pp. 307-318
  

The Evitable Conflict

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, June 1950, pp. 48-68
Collections:

• I, Robot
  
• (Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1981)
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• Robot Visions
  

Anthologies:

• The American Dream (textbook), Scott, Foresman, & Co., 1977
  
• Machines That Think, Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984, pp. 251-276
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Les Robots, Paris: Hatier, 1984
  

Legal Rites

First Published In: Weird Tales, September 1950, pp. 8-25
Note: A collaboration with Frederik Pohl, who used the pseudonym James MacCreigh
Collection:

• The Early Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• Br-r-r-r-!, Groff Conklin, ed. Avon (pbk), 1959, pp. 94-129
  
• The Unexpected, Leo Margulies, ed. Pyramid (pbk), 1961, pp. 17-41
  
• Weird Tales of the Supernatural, Kurt Singer, ed. W. H. Allen, 1966, pp. 86-112
  
• The Edge of Never: Classic and Contemporary Tales of the Supernatural, Robert Hoskins, ed. Fawcett Premier (pbk), June 1973, pp. 198-232
  
• Ghosts, Marvin Kaye and Shiralee Kaye, eds. Doubleday, 1981
  
• A Treasury of American Horror Stories, Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Crown/Bonanza, 1985, pp. 369-390
  
• Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg & Robert E.Weinberg, eds. Crown/Bonanza, 1988, pp. 562-583
  
• Ghosts, Marvin Kaye, ed. Galahad Books, 1992, pp. 28-54
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Incontri Coi Fantaspiriti, Carlo Fruterra and France Lucentini, eds. Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1978
  
• The Second Target Book of Horror, Kurt Singer, ed. London: Target (pbk), 1984, pp. 68-100
  
• A Classic Collection of Haunting Ghost Stories, Marvin Kaye and Shiralee Kaye, eds. London: Little Brown UK, 1993, pp. 12-38
  

Darwinian Poolroom

First Published In: Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1950, pp. 152-160
Collection:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  

Anthologies:

• The End of Summer, Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini, eds., Ace (pbk), 1979
  

Day Of The Hunters

First Published In: Future Combined With Science Fiction Stories, November 1950, pp. 74-79
Collections:

• Have You Seen These?
  
• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Science Fictional Dinosaur, Robert Silverberg, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Avon/Flare, February 1982, pp. 102-109
  
• Dinosaurs II, Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, eds. Ace (pbk), December 1995, pp. 151-162
  
• Dinosaurs, Martin H. Greenberg, ed. Donald I. Fine Books, February 1996, pp. 15-25
  

Green Patches

Title Before Publication: Potent Stuff
Title When First Published: Misbegotten Missionary
First Published In: Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1950, pp. 34-47
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Tomorrow, the Stars, Robert A. Heinlein, ed. Doubleday, 1952, pp. 183-199
  
• Tomorrow, the Stars, Robert A. Heinlein, ed. Signet, August 1953, pp. 152-165
  
• Giants Unleashed, Groff Conklin, ed. Grosset & Dunlap, 1965, pp. 125-161
  
• First Step Outward, Robert Hoskins, ed. Dell (pbk), 1969
  
• Speculations (as "Misbegotten Missionary"), Thomas E. Sanders, ed. Glencoe Press, 1973, pp. 48-61
  
• Science Fiction, Sylvia Z. Brodkin and Elizabeth J. Pearson, eds. McDougal, Littell, & Company, 1973, pp. 231-245
  
• Science Fact/Fiction, Edmund J. Farrell, Thomas E. Gage, John Pfordresher, and Raymond J. Rodrigues, eds. Scott, Foresman, & Co. (pbk), 1974, pp. 93-104
  
• The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces (as "Misbegotten Missionary"), Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Arbor House, 1983, pp. 279-290
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 12 (1950), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1984, pp. 205-220
  
• Great Tales of Science Fiction (as "Misbegotten Missionary"), Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. A&W/Galahad, 1985, pp. 279-290
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction, Sixth Series (omnibus edition), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Bonanza Books, 1988, pp. 510-525
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Science Fiction Classics, A. W. Bruna & Zoon, Utrecht, 1970
  
• Great Science Fiction Stories, Peter Bruce, ed. Stuttgart: Ernest Klett, 1981
  

In a Good Cause -

First Published In: New Tales of Space and Time, Raymond J. Healy, ed. Holt, 1951, pp. 19-48
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• New Tales of Space and Time, Raymond T. (sic) Healy, ed. Pocket Books, October 1952, pp. 16-43
  
• The Future at War, Volume 3: Orion's Sword, Reginald Bretnor, ed. Ace (pbk), 1980, pp. 7-39
  

Tyrann

First Published In: Galaxy, January 1951 (Part 1) pp. 4-65, February 1951 (Part 2) pp. 101-159, March 1951 (Part 3) pp. 98-160
Note: Serialized version of The Stars, Like Dust-

Satisfaction Guaranteed

Title Before Publication: Flesh and Metal
First Published In: Amazing Stories, April 1951, pp. 52-63
Reprinted In: Fantastic Stories, July 1966, pp. 114-128
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Rest of the Robots
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• The Invasion of the Robots, Roger Elwood, ed. Paperback Library, 1965, pp. 9-21
  
• Amazing Science Fiction Anthology: The Wild Years 1946-1955, Martin H. Greenberg, ed. TSR, 1987, pp. 63-82
  

Hostess

First Published In: Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1951, pp. 86-123
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction, Horace L. Gold, ed. Crown, 1952, pp. 305-335
  
• Bug-Eyed Monsters, Bill Pronzini and Barry Malzberg, eds. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (pbk), 1980, pp. 221-273
  

Breeds There a Man ... ?

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, June 1951, pp. 73-103
Collections:

• Through a Glass, Clearly
  
• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Edge Of Tomorrow
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Beachheads in Space, August W. Derleth, ed. Berkley Books (pbk), 1957
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 13 (1951), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1985, pp. 130-170
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Beachheads in Space, August W. Derleth, ed. London: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952, pp. 169-203
  
• Beachheads in Space, August W. Derleth, ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954
  
• From Other Worlds, August W. Derleth, ed. London: Four Square Books (pbk), 1964
  

C-Chute

Title Before Publication: Greater Love
Title When First Published: The C-Chute
First Published In: Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1951, pp. 3-41
Collections:

• Through a Glass, Clearly
  
• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Best of Isaac Asimov
  
• Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Shadow of Tomorrow, Frederik Pohl, ed. Doubleday, 1953, pp. 58-97
  
• Second Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction, Horace L. Gold, ed. Doubleday, 1954, pp. 97-129
  
• Galaxy Science Fiction Omnibus (Selections from Second Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction), Horace L. Gold, ed. Grayson, 1955
  
• Space Dreadnoughts, David Drake, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Ace (pbk), July 1990, pp. 13-54
  

Shah Guido G.

First Published In: Marvel Science Fiction, November 1951, pp. 27-33
Collections:

• Have You Seen These?
  
• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  

The Fun They Had

First Published In: Boys and Girls Page (syndicated newspaper feature), December 1, 1951
Reprinted In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1954, pp. 125-127
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Australian edition #2
Summertime, Scholastic Magazines, July 24, 1959, pp. 12-13
Automation and its Challenge, Scholastic Book Services, 1968, pp. 24-29
Scholastic News Times, March 21, 1969
The Junior League, September/October 1969, pp. 2-?
Scholastic Teacher, March 23, 1970, pp. 8-?
The Literary Calvacade, December 1972, pp. 14-15
Pizazz, March 1978, pp. 10-12
Scholastic Newstime, Jan 18, 1979
Virginia Education, December 1980, pp. 14-15
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Best of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Operation Future, Groff Conklin, ed. Pocket Books, May 1955, pp. 353-356
  
• Journeys in SF, Richard L. Laughlin and Lillian M. Popp, eds. Globe, 1961, pp. 567-574
  
• Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales, Isaac Asimov and Groff Conklin, eds. Collier, 1963, pp. 25-28
  
• New Worlds Ahead, Irene Willis and Richard E. Willis, eds. Harcourt Brace & World, 1969, p. 349-353
  
• English For Speakers of Hebrew, 1970
  
• Action Unit Book I, 1970
  
• As Tomorrow Becomes Today, Charles William Sullivan, ed. Prentice-Hall (pbk), 1974, pp. 157-159
  
• Skylark Science Fiction Stories, Jill Bennett, ed. Book Club Association, 1980, pp. 45-50
  
• Tomorrow's TV, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Raintree, 1982, pp. 8-14
  
• Science Fiction and Fantasy, Fred Obrecht, ed. Woodbury, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 1977
  
• Fantastic Reading, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and David C. Yeager, eds. Scott, Foresman, & Co., 1984, pp. 114-115
  
• Technology, Houghton Mifflin (pbk), 1989, pp. 8-12
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Connoisseur's Science Fiction, Thomas W. Boardman, ed. Penguin, 1964, pp. 146-149
  
• Untravelled Worlds, Alan Frank Barter and R. Wilson, eds. Macmillan U.K., 1966
  
• Science Fiction Stories, Tom Boardman Jr., ed. London: Octopus Books, 1979, pp. 159-161
  
• Science Fiction Stories, Edward Blishen, ed. London: Kingfisher, 1988, pp. 137-140
  

Note: Asimov' most reprinted story (reprinted over 60 times, not all of them shown here)

Youth

First Published In: Space Science Fiction, May 1952
Collection:

• The Martian Way and Other Stories
  
• Prisoners of the Stars (omnibus edition)
  
• Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Science Fiction, S. H. Burton, ed. Longman (pbk), 1967, pp. 190-231
  

What If - ?

First Published In: Fantastic Story Magazine, Summer 1952, pp. 106-118
Reprinted In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1969, pp. 128-???
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Science Fiction Adventures in Dimension, Groff Conklin, ed. Vanguard, 1953, pp. 235-248
  
• Adventures in Dimension, Groff Conklin, ed. Grayson, 1955
  
• Great Science Fiction by Scientists, Groff Conklin, ed. Collier, 1962, pp. 17-32
  
• Science Fiction Adventures in Dimension, Groff Conklin, ed. Berkley Medallion (pbk), 1965, pp. 140-152
  
• Magical Wishes, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Signet, 1986, pp. 166-179
  
• Fantastic Stories: tales of the weird and wondrous, Martin H. Greenberg and Patrick L. Price, eds. TSR, Inc., May 1987, pp. 174-185
  
• Time Machines: The Best Time Travel Stories Ever Written, Bill Adler, Jr., ed. Carroll & Graf, December 1997, pp. 279-291
  

The Currents of Space

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, October 1952 (Part 1) pp. 7-68, November 1952 (Part 2) pp. 101-151, December 1952 (Part 3) pp. 104-163
Note: Serialized version of The Currents of Space
Collections:

• Triangle (omnibus edition), Doubleday, 1961
  
• Prisoners of the Stars (omnibus edition), Doubleday, 1979
  

The Martian Way

First Published In: Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1952, pp. 4-49
Collections:

• The Martian Way and Other Stories
  
• The Best of Isaac Asimov
  
• Prisoners of the Stars (omnibus edition)
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• Worlds to Come, Damon Knight, ed. Harper & Row, 1967, pp. 143-211
  
• Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B, Ben Bova, ed. Doubleday, 1973, pp. 1-40
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 14 (1952), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1986, pp. 243-288
  
• The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Carroll & Graf, 1990, pp. 48-90
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Worlds to Come, Damon Knight, ed. London: Gollancz, 1967, pp. 143-211
  

The Deep

First Published In: Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1952, pp. 139-160
Collections:

• The Martian Way and Other Stories
  
• The Best of Isaac Asimov
  
• Prisoners of the Stars (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Nobody Here But -

First Published In: Star Science Fiction Stories #1, Frederik Pohl, ed. Ballantine, 1953, pp. 143-154
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Button, Button

First Published In: Startling Stories, January 1953, pp. 74-82
Reprinted In: Science Fiction Yearbook Number 3, 1969, pp. 4-9
Collection:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  

Anthologies:

• 13 Above the Night, Groff Conklin, ed. Dell (pbk), 1965, pp. 189-204
  

The Monkey's Finger

First Published In: Startling Stories, February 1953, pp. 77-83
Reprinted In: Science Fiction Yearbook, Number 4, 1970, pp. 70-???
Collections:

• Have You Seen These?
  
• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• Inside the Funhouse, Mike Resnick, ed. AvoNova (pbk), August 1992, pp. 154-164
  

Sally

First Published In: Fantastic Story Magazine, May-June 1953, pp. 34-50, 162
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• American Accent, E. Abell, ed. Ballantine, 1954, pp. 124-143
  
• For Boys Only, Eric Berger, ed. TAB, March 1960, pp. 88-111
  
• Time Untamed, Belmont (pbk), 1967, pp. 5-22
  
• The Best From Fantastic, Ted White, ed. Manor, 1973, pp. 58-78
  
• Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines!, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Franklin Watts, 1983, pp. 6-23
  
• Robots, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Signet, 1989, pp. 141-158
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• The Best From Fantastic, Ted White, ed. London: Robert Hale & Company, 1976, pp. 58-78
  

Flies

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1953, pp. 17-22
Reprinted In: The New York Post, March 6, 1955
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Science Fiction Terror Tales, Groff Conklin, ed. Gnome, 1955, pp. 115-123
  
• The Eureka Years, Annette P. McComas, ed. Bantam (pbk), 1982, pp. 235-241
  
• Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural, Marvin Kaye, ed. Science Fiction Book Club, May 1985, pp. 321-327
  

Kid Stuff

First Published In: Beyond Fantasy Fiction, September 1953, pp. 121-133
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Faeries, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Roc, 1991, pp. 292-306
  

Belief

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, October 1953, pp. 71-99
Collections:

• Through a Glass, Clearly
  
• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  
• The Edge Of Tomorrow
  
• The Alternate Asimovs
  

Anthologies:

• Beyond the Barriers of Space and Time, Judith Merril, ed. Random House, 1954, pp. 153-184
  
• Prologue to Analog: Analog Science Fact and Science Fiction, John W. Campbell, ed. Doubleday, 1962, pp. 19-58
  
• 14 Great Tales of ESP, Idella Purnell Stone, ed. Fawcett Gold Medal (pbk), November 1969, pp. 170-204
  
• Analog The Best of Science Fiction, Galahad Books, 1982, pp. 292-316
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Analog Anthology, John W. Campbell, ed. London: Dobson, 1965
  

The Caves of Steel

First Published In: Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1953 (Part 1) pp. 4-66, November 1953 (Part 2) pp. 98-159, December 1953 (Part 3) pp. 108-159
Note: Serialized version of The Caves of Steel
Collections:

• The Rest of the Robots
  
• The Robot Collection
  
• The Robot Novels
  

Everest

First Published In: Universe Science Fiction, December 1953, pp. 30-33
Collections:

• Have You Seen These?
  
• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  

The Micropsychiatric Applications of Thiotimoline

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, December 1953, pp. 107-116
Collection:

• Included in the non-fiction collection Only a Trillion, as "The Marvellous Properties of Thiotimoline, Part II"
  

It's Such a Beautiful Day

First Published In: Star Science Fiction Stories no. 3, Frederik Pohl, ed. Ballantine Books, 1954, pp. 1-25
Collections:

• Through a Glass, Clearly
  
• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Beyond Belief, Richard J. Hurley, ed. Scholastic Book Services, 1966, pp. 59-97
  
• Eco-Fiction, John Stadler, ed. Washington Square Press, 1971, pp. 183-206
  
• Transformations, Daniel Roselle, ed. Fawcett, 1973
  
• Universe Ahead: Stories of the Future, Sylvia Engdahl and Rick Roberson, eds. Atheneum, 1975, pp. 29-59
  
• You and Science Fiction: A Humanistic Approach to Tomorrow, Bernard Hollister, ed. National Textbook, 1976
  
• Technology, Houghton Mifflin (pbk), 1989, pp. 18-49
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Space 3, Richard Davis, ed. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1976
  

The Pause

First Published In: Time to Come: Science Fiction Stories of Tomorrow, August W. Derleth, ed. Farrar, Straus, 1954, pp. 41-59
Collections:

• Have You Seen These?
  
• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  

Anthologies:

• Time to Come, August Derleth, ed. Farrar, Straus, & Young, 1954
  
• Time to Come, August Derleth, ed. Berkley (pbk), 1958
  
• Time to Come, August Derleth, ed. Consul (pbk), 1958
  
• Time to Come, August Derleth, ed. Tower (pbk), 1958
  

Sucker Bait

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, February 1954 (Part 1) pp. 8-38, and March 1954 (Part 2) pp. 111-139
Collection:

• The Martian Way and Other Stories
  
• Prisoners of the Stars (omnibus edition)
• Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• Bart Science Fiction Triplet #1, Bart, April 1988, , pp. 7-100
  
• Astounding Stories: The 60th Anniversary Collection, Volume 2, James Gunn, ed. Easton Press, 1990, pp. 81-142
  
• The Best of Astounding, James Gunn, ed. Carroll & Graf, 1992, pp. 1-69
  

The Immortal Bard

First Published In: Universe Science Fiction, No. 5, May 1954, pp. 97-99
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Travels Through Time, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Raintree, 1981, pp. 33-36
  
• 101 Science Fiction Stories, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, and Jenny-Lynn Waugh, eds. Crown/Avenel, 1986, pp. 265-268
  
• Another Round at the Spaceport Bar, George H. Scithers and Darrell Schweitzer, eds. Avon (pbk), April 1989, pp. 153-156
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Introducing Science Fiction, Brian W. Aldiss, ed. London: Faber, 1964
  

Let's Not

First Published In: Graduate Journal (of Boston University), December 1954, pp. 53-54
Collection:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  

Anthologies:

• All About the Future, Martin Greenberg, ed. Gnome, 1955, pp. 34-36
  

The Singing Bell

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955, pp. 97-110
Collections:

• Asimov's Mysteries
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 5th Series, Anthony Boucher, ed. Doubleday, 1956, pp. 226-244
  
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow..., Bonnie L. Heintz, Frank Herbert, Donald A. Joos and Jane Agorn McGee, eds. Holt, Rinehart & Winston (pbk), 1974
  
• The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Doubleday, 1979, pp. 222-237
  
• Sci-Fi Private Eye, Charles G.Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Roc, March 1997, pp. 9-33
  

Risk

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, May 1955, pp. 60-82
Collections:

• The Rest of the Robots
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  

The Last Trump

First Published In: Fantastic Universe, June 1955, pp. 41-54
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Catastrophes!, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Fawcett Crest, 1981, pp. 12-27
  

Franchise

First Published In: If: Worlds of Science Fiction, August 1955, pp. 2-15
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• The First World of If, James L. Quinn and Eve Wulff, eds. Quinn Publications, 1957, pp. 108-119
  
• Alien Earth and Other Stories, Roger Elwood and Sam Moskowitz, eds. McFadden-Bartell, 1969, pp. 193-208
  
• The Sociology of the Possible, Richard Ofshe, ed. Prentice-Hall, 1970, pp. 162-173
  
• Political Science Fiction, Martin H. Greenberg, ed. Prentice-Hall, 1974, pp. 193-206
  
• The Sociology of the Possible (second edition), Richard Ofshe, ed. Prentice-Hall (pbk), 1977, pp. 163-172
  
• Inside Information: Computers in Fiction, Abbe Mowshowitz, ed. Addison-Wesley, 1977, pp. 148-163
  
• Election Day 2084, Isaac Asimov, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Prometheus Books, 1984, pp. 11-24
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Histoires De Demain, Gerald Klein, ed. Paris: Le Livre De Poche, 1974
  

The Talking Stone

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1955, pp. 107-123
Collections:

• Asimov's Mysteries
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• Space, Time, and Crime, Miriam A. DeFord, ed. Mercury, 1964, pp. 43-59
  
• The Great Science Fiction Series, Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph Olander, eds. Harper & Row, 1980, pp. 54-70
  

Dreamworld

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1955, p. 127
Collections:

• Opus 100
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 5th Series, Anthony Boucher, ed. Doubleday, 1956, pp. 144-145
  
• Never in This World, Idella Purnell Stone, ed. Fawcett Gold Medal (pbk), 1971
  
• Microcosmic Tales, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Taplinger, 1980, pp. 291-292
  
• Fantastic Reading, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and David C. Yeager, eds. Scott, Foresman, & Co., 1984, pp. 98-99
  
• Giants, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Signet, 1985, pp. 220-221
  
• The Bank Street Book of Science Fiction, Howard Zimmerman, Seymour Reit, and Barbara Brenner, eds. Pocket Books (pbk), September 1989, pp. 38-49
  

Dreaming Is a Private Thing

Title Before Publication: A Hundred Million Dreams at Once
First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1955, pp. 53-66
Reprinted In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1979, pp. 229-241
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• SF 56: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy, Judith Merril, ed. Gnome, 1956, pp. 270-287
  
• New Dreams This Morning, James Blish, ed. Ballantine, 1966
  
• S-F: The Best of the Best, Judith Merril, ed. Delacorte, 1967, pp. 398-414
  
• Science Fiction Inventions, Damon Knight, ed. Lancer (pbk), 1967
  
• Fantasy: The Literature of the Marvelous, Leo P. Kelley, ed. McGraw-Hill (pbk), 1974, pp. 38-51
  
• Tomorrow, Inc.: SF Stories About Big Business, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Taplinger, 1976, pp. 135-150
  
• Introductory Psychology Through Science Fiction, Harvey A. Katz, Patricia Warrick, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Rand McNally College Pub. Co. (pbk), 1977
  Note:Does not appear in the 1974 edition of this anthology
  
• The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 30 Year Retrospective, Edward L. Ferman, ed. Doubleday, 1980, pp. 223-237
  
• TV:2000, Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Fawcett Crest, 1982, pp. 41-56
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 17 (1955), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1988, pp. 333-349
  
• The Night Fantastic, Poul Anderson and Karen Anderson, eds. DAW (pbk), April 1991, pp. 147-164
  
• A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959, Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. MJF Books, 1996, pp. 180-197
  

The Portable Star

First Published In: Thrilling Wonder Stories, Winter 1955, pp. 54-64
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Note: Asimov's least favorite story.

The Message

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1956, pp. 120-121
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

The Dead Past

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, April 1956, pp. 6-46
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Best of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Edge Of Tomorrow
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Five-Odd, Groff Conklin, ed. Pyramid (pbk), 1964, pp. 8-54
  
• Beyond Control, Robert Silverberg, ed. Thomas Nelson, 1972, pp. 162-219
  
• The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels, Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Arbor House, 1980, pp. 302-345
  
• The Analog Anthology #1, Stanley Schmidt, ed. Davis Publications, 1981, pp. 187-260
  
• 6 Decades: The Best of Analog, Stanley Schmidt, ed. Davis Publications, 1986, pp. 35-67
  
• Worlds Imagined: 14 Short Science Fiction Novels, Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Avenel, 1989, pp. 302-345
  
• The World Treasury of Science Fiction, David G. Hartwell and Clifton Fadiman, eds. Little Brown, 1989, pp. 503-543
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Kroki W Nie-Zname, Warsaw: Iskry, 1970
  

Hell-Fire

First Published In: Fantastic Universe, May 1956, pp. 97-98
Reprinted In: The Literary Calvacade, December 1972, p. 16
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Between Time and Terror, Robert Weinberg, Stefen Dziemanowicz, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Roc (pbk), April 1995, pp. 241-242
  

Living Space

First Published In: The Original Science Fiction Stories, May 1956, pp. 3-17
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Worlds of Maybe, Robert Silverberg, ed. Thomas Nelson, 1970, pp. 152-172
  
• Wondermakers 2, Robert Hoskins, ed. Fawcett, 1974, pp. 34-51
  
• Valence and Vision: A Reader in Psychology, Rich Jones and Richard L. Roe, eds. Rinehart Press/Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1974, pp. 272-283
  
• Invasions, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Signet, 1990, pp. 11-25
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Out of This World 3, Amabel Williams-Ellis and Mably Owen, eds. London: Blackie, 1961
  

What's in a Name?

Title When First Published: Death of a Honey-Blonde
First Published In: Saint Detective Stories, June 1956, pp. 110-125
Collection:

• Asimov's Mysteries
  

The Dying Night

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1956, pp. 3-24
Collections:

• Nine Tomorrows
  
• Asimov's Mysteries
  
• The Best of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Kaland A Vegken, Budapest: Tanzsics Konyvkiado, 1973
  

Someday

First Published In: Infinity Science Fiction, August 1956, pp. 26-35
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• Robot Visions
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• The Metal Smile, Damon Knight, ed. Belmont, 1968, pp. 134-144
  
• Blast Off, Harry Harrison, ed. Faber & Faber, 1969, pp. 226-
  
• Worlds of Wonder, Harry Harrison, ed. Doubleday, 1969, pp. 276-285
  
• 70 Favorite Stories for Young Readers, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1974
  
• Lavender Skywriter, Theodore I. Harris, Mildred Creekman, Margaret H. Greenman, and Louise Matteoni, eds. The Economy Company (Oklahoma City), pp. 133-146
  

Pate de Foie Gras

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, September 1956, pp. 103-117
Collections:

• Only a Trillon (nonfiction collection)
  
• Asimov's Mysteries
  
• The Edge Of Tomorrow
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• Where Do We Go From Here?, Isaac Asimov, ed. Doubleday, 1971, pp. 325-346
  
• Laughing Space, Isaac Asimov and J. O. Jeppson, eds. Houghton Mifflin, 1982, pp. 59-71
• Analog's Lighter Side, Stanley Schmidt, ed. Dial Press, 1982, pp. 37-49
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Science Fiction Series #5, Beijing: Scientific Publishing, 1982
  

First Law

First Published In: Fantastic Universe, October 1956, pp. 29-31
Collections:

• The Rest of the Robots
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  

Anthologies:

• The Fantastic Universe Omnibus, Hans Santesson, ed. Prentice-Hall, 1960, pp. 1-4
  

The Watery Place

First Published In: Satellite Science Fiction, October 1956, pp. 86-89
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

The Naked Sun

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, October 1956 (Part 1) pp. 8-62, November 1956 (Part 2) pp. 96-151, December 1956 (Part 3) pp. 89-146
Note: Serialized version of The Naked Sun

Each an Explorer

First Published In: Future Science Fiction, Number 30 1956
Collections:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• SF:'57: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy, Judith Merill, ed. Gnome, 1957, pp. 146-160
  
• The Oddballs, Vic Ghidalia, ed. Manor (pbk), 1973
  
• Explorers of Space: Eight Stories of Science Fiction, Robert Silverberg, ed. Thomas Nelson, 1975, pp. 169-186
  
• Wide-Angle Lens: Stories of Time and Space, Phyllis R. Fenner, ed. William Morrow & Co., 1980, pp. 203-223
  

The Last Question

First Published In: Science Fiction Quarterly, November 1956, pp. 7-15
Collections:

• Nine Tomorrows
  
• Opus 100
• The Best of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Edge Of Tomorrow
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• 3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction, L. Sprague DeCamp and Catherine C. de Camp, eds. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1972, pp. 237-254
  
• Space Opera : An Anthology of Way-back-when Futures, Brian W. Aldiss, ed. Doubleday, 1975
  
• The Science Fiction Roll of Honor, Frederik Pohl, ed. Random House, 1975, pp. 35-49
  
• The Future in Question, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Fawcett Crest, 1980, pp. 368-381
  
• Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (omnibus edition), Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Bonanza Books, 1980, pp. 368-381
  
• Random Access Messages of the Computer Age, Thomas F. Monteleone, ed. Hayden Books (pbk), December 1984, pp. 179-191
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 18 (1956), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1988, pp. 286-299
  
• Grand Master's Choice, Andre Norton and Ingrid Zierhut, eds. NESFA, 1989. pp. 211-221
  
• Cosmic Critiques, Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Writer's Digest Books, 1990, pp. 111-122
  
• Orbit #3 (graphic adaptation), Eclipse Books (pbk), October 1990
  
• Ascent of Wonder, David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, eds. Tor, July 1994, pp. 826-834
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Space Opera : An Anthology of Way-back-when Futures, Brian W. Aldiss, ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974, pp. 309-322
  
• Space Opera : An Anthology of Way-back-when Futures, Brian W. Aldiss, ed. Futura (pbk), 1974
  
• Top Science Fiction, Josh Pachter, ed. London: J. M. Dent, 1984, pp. 12-24
  

Note: In Asimov's opinion, the best science fiction story ever written.

Gimmicks Three

Title When First Published: The Brazen Locked Room
First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1956, pp. 110-115
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Deals With the Devil, Basil Davenport, ed. Dodd, Mead, 1958, pp. 1-8
• Special Wonder: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Fantasy and Science Fiction, J. Francis McComas, ed. Random House, 1970, pp. 12-17
• All But Impossible (as "Brazen Locked Room"), Edward D. Hoch, ed. Ticknor & Fields, 1981, pp. 155-162
  

Jokester

First Published In: Infinity Science Fiction, December 1956, pp. 39-51, 130
Collections:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Valence and Vision: A Reader in Psychology, Rich Jones and Richard L. Roe, eds. Rinehart Press/Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1974, pp. 389-399
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• More Penguin SF, Brian W. Aldiss, ed. Penguin (pbk), 1963, pp. 188-201
  
• A Pokolbatarto Vonat, Budapest: Gondolat, 1970
  
• The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus, Brian W. Aldiss, ed. Penguin, 1973, pp. 377-390
  
• The Wall Around the World and Other Science Fiction Stories, Susan Morris, ed. London: Cambridge University Press (pbk), 1979, pp. 1-18
  

The Dust of Death

First Published In: Venture Science Fiction, January 1957, pp. 83-93
Collection:

• Asimov's Mysteries
  

Strikebreaker

Title When First Published: Male Strikebreaker
First Published In: The Original Science Fiction Stories, January 1957, pp. 39-52
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• 17 x Infinity, Groff Conklin, ed. Dell, 1963, pp. 20-34
  
• Anthropology Through Science Fiction, Carol Mason, Martin H. Greenberg, and Patricia Warrick, eds. St. Martin's Press, 1974, pp. 137-149
  
• The Sociology of the Possible (second edition), Richard Ofshe, ed. Prentice-Hall (pbk), 1977, pp. 137-146
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 19 (1957), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1989, pp. 15-32
  

Let's Get Together

First Published In: Infinity Science Fiction, February 1957, pp. 64-80
Collections:

• The Rest of the Robots
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• S-F '58: The Year's Greatest SF and Fantasy, Judith Merril, ed. Doubleday, 1958, pp. 58-76
  

Blank!

First Published In: Infinity Science Fiction, June 1957, pp. 88-92
Collections:

• Have You Seen These?
  
• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  

Does a Bee Care?

First Published In: If: Worlds of Science Fiction, June 1957, pp. 69-73
Reprinted In: Starstream: Adventures in Science Fiction, Number 4, 1976, pp. 23-32 (comic book adaptation)
Collection:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  
• Robot Dreams
  

Anthologies:

• Other Worlds, Other Times, Roger Elwood and Sam Moskowitz, eds. McFadden-Bartell, 1969, pp. 119-125
  
• StarStreak: Stories of Space, Betty M. Owen, ed. Scholastic Book Services (pbk), 1979, pp. 207-216
  

A Woman's Heart

First Published In: Satellite Science Fiction, June 1957, pp. 123-124
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Profession

First Published In: Astounding Science Fiction, July 1957, pp. 8-56
Collections:

• Nine Tomorrows
  
• Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• The Sociology of the Possible, Richard Ofshe, ed. Prentice-Hall, 1970, pp. 130-145
  
• School and Society Through Science Fiction, Joseph D. Olander, Martin H. Greenberg, and Patricia Warrick, eds. Rand McNally (pbk), 1974, pp. 19-69
  
• Valence and Vision: A Reader in Psychology, Rich Jones and Richard L. Roe, eds. Rinehart Press/Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1974, pp. 81-96
  
• You and Science Fiction: A Humanistic Approach to Tomorrow, Bernard Hollister, ed. National Textbook, 1976, pp. 21-39 Note: An edited version
  
• The Sociology of the Possible (second edition), Richard Ofshe, ed. Prentice-Hall (pbk), 1977, pp. 148-161
  
• Exiles: Three Novellas, Ben Bova, ed. Futura (pbk), 1977
• Exiles: Three Novellas, Ben Bova, ed. St. Martin's Press, 1978, pp. 102-159
  
• Bakers Dozen: 13 Short Science Fiction Novels, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Crown, 1985, pp. 1-45
  
• Astounding Stories: The 60th Anniversary Collection, Volume 2, James Gunn, ed. Easton Press, 1990, pp. 143-194
  
• Why I Left Harry's All Night Hamburgers and Other Stories, Sheila Williams and Charles Ardai, eds. Delacorte, June 1990, pp. 125-182
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Neue Science-Fiction Geschichten, Vienna, 1982
  

A Loint of Paw

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1957, p. 130
Collections:

• Asimov's Mysteries
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction, 7th Series, Anthony Boucher, ed. Doubleday, 1958
  
• 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Doubleday, 1978, pp. 1-2
  
• Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction and Fantasy Story-A-Month 1989 Calendar, Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Pomegranate, 1988
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 19 (1957), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1989, pp. 281-283
  

Ideas Die Hard

First Published In: Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1957, pp. 126-144
Collections:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• Third Galaxy Reader, Horace L. Gold, ed. Doubleday, 1958, pp. 121-141
  
• First Flights to the Moon, Hal Clement, ed. Doubleday, 1970, pp. 75-96
  

I'm in Marsport Without Hilda

First Published In: Venture Science Fiction, November 1957, pp. 67-78
Collections:

• Nine Tomorrows
  
• Asimov's Mysteries
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Rod Serling's Other Worlds, Rod Serling, ed. Bantam (pbk), 1978, pp. 115-132
  
• Lovers & Other Monsters, Marvin Kaye, ed. Science Fiction Book Club, 1992, pp. 331-344
  

The Gentle Vultures

First Published In: Super-Science Fiction, December 1957, pp. 2-20
Collections:

• Nine Tomorrows
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Contact, Noel Keyes, ed. Paperback Library (pbk), 1963
  
• Earthmen and Strangers, Robert Silverberg, ed. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1966, pp. 117-137
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Ekspedicija Uz Zemi, Riga: Izdevrieciba "Zinatne", 1968
  

Galley Slave

First Published In: Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1957, pp. 8-41
Collections:

• The Rest of the Robots
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• Robot Visions
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• Six Great Short Science Fiction Novels, Groff Conklin, ed. Dell, 1960, pp. 11-50
  
• Time Waits for Winthrop, and Four Other Short Novels from Galaxy, Frederik Pohl, ed. Doubleday, 1962, pp. 297-336
  
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Fawcett Crest, 1980, pp. 93-125
  
• The Seven Deadly Sins and Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction (omnibus edition), Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Bonanza Books, 1980, pp. 117-154
  

Insert Knob A in Hole B

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1957, p. 91
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Note: While participating in a panel discussion discussing means of communication on Boston's educational television channel, WGBH-TV, on August 21, 1957, Asimov was challenged to write a story to illustrate his means of communication. Asimov proceeded to write this story while on the air, and read it to the audience before the half-hour program was over.

Spell My Name with an "S"

Title When First Published: S, as in Zebatinsky
First Published In: Star Science Fiction, January 1958, pp. 33-47
Collections:

• Nine Tomorrows
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Lenny

First Published In: Infinity Science Fiction, January 1958, pp. 54-67
Collections:

• The Rest of the Robots
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• Robot Visions
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Expert Dreamers, Frederik Pohl, ed. Avon, 1962, pp. 62-79
  
• Androids, Time Machines, and Blue Giraffes, Roger Elwood and Vic Ghidalia, eds. Follett, 1973, pp. 35-51
  
• Visions of Tomorrow, Roger Elwood, ed. Pocket Books, 1976
  
• Science Fiction Stories, John L. Foster, ed. Ward Lock Educational, 1975, pp. 32-47
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Les Robots, Paris: Hatier, 1984
  
• The Expert Dreamers, Frederik Pohl, ed. Gollancz, 1963, pp. 51-66
  

The Feeling of Power

First Published In: If: Worlds of Science Fiction, February 1958, pp. 4-11
Reprinted In: Social Education, February 1977, pp. 108-111
Collections:

• Nine Tomorrows
  
• Opus 100
  
• The Edge Of Tomorrow
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• The Mathematical Magpie, Clifton Fadiman, ed. Simon & Schuster, 1962, pp. 3-14
  
• Spectrum II, Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest, eds. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963, pp. 165-174
  
• The Stars Around Us, Robert Hoskins, ed. New American Library, 1970, pp. 129-138
  
• Past, Present, and Future Perfect, Jack C. Wolfe and Gregory Fitz Gerald, eds. Fawcett Premier (pbk), 1973
  
• Inside Information: Computers in Fiction, Abbe Mowshowitz, ed. Addison-Wesley, 1977, pp. 253-261
  
• Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder, Rudy Rucker, ed. Arbor House, 1987, pp. 225-234
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 20 (1958), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1990, pp. 29-40
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Le Meraviglie, Sergio Solmi and Carlo Fruttero, eds. Einaudi, 1959
  
• Science Fiction Through the Ages 2, I. O. Evans, ed. Panther (pbk), 1966
  
• Out of This World 10, Amabel Williams-Ellis and Michael Pearson, eds. London: Blackie, 1973
  

The Story Machine

First Published In: Plays, February 1958, pp. 13-23
Note: The story "Someday" adapted as a play
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Silly Asses

First Published In: Future Science Fiction, February 1958, p. 114
Collections:

• Have You Seen These?
  
• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  

All the Troubles of the World

First Published In: Super-Science Fiction, April 1958, pp. 34-53
Collections:

• Nine Tomorrows
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• If This Goes On, Charles Neutzel, ed. BCA (pbk), 1965
  
• World Zero Minus, Aidan and Nancy Chambers, eds. Macmillan Educational (pbk), 1971, pp. 9-27
  
• The Future Now: Saving Tomorrow, Robert Hoskins, ed. Fawcett (pbk), June 1977
  
• The Realm of Fiction: 74 Short Stories James B. Hall and Elizabeth C. Hall, eds. McGraw-Hill, 1977, pp. 465-478
  
• Computer Crimes & Capers, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Academy Chicago Publishers, 1983, pp. 217-231
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Out of This World 6, Amabel Williams-Ellis and Mably Owen, eds. London: Blackie, 1967
  
• Out of This World 10, Amabel Williams-Ellis and Michael Pearson, eds. London: Blackie, 1973
  

Buy Jupiter

Title Before Publication: It Pays
First Published In: Venture Science Fiction, May 1958, pp. 84-97
Collection:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  

Anthologies:

• No Limits, Joseph Ferman, ed. Ballantine, Aug 1964, pp. 101-105
  
• Microcosmic Tales, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Taplinger, 1980, pp. 240-244
  
• Fantastic Reading, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and David C. Yeager, eds. Scott, Foresman, & Co., 1984, pp. 141-143
  

The Up-to-Date Sorcerer

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1958, pp. 72-84
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction, 8th Series, Anthony Boucher, ed. Doubleday, 1959, pp. 55-70
  
• Witches and Warlocks: Tales of Black Magic, Old & New, Marvin Kaye, ed. Science Fiction Book Club, April 1990, pp. 357-371
  

The Ugly Little Boy

Title When First Published: Lastborn
First Published In: Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1958, pp. 6-44
Reprinted In: Read, October 5, 1977, pp. 15-23 Collections:

• Nine Tomorrows
  
• The Edge Of Tomorrow
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• The Worlds of Science Fiction, Robert P. Mills, ed. Dial, 1963, pp. 293-339
  
• Tomorrow's Children, Isaac Asimov, ed. Doubleday, 1966, pp. 389-431
  
• Dimension X, Damon Knight, ed. Simon & Schuster, 1970, pp. 303-350
  
• The 7 Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Fawcett Crest, 1981, pp. 347-376
  
• The Seven Deadly Sins and Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction (omnibus edition), Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Bonanza Books, 1980, pp. 311-350
  
• Creations, Isaac Asimov, George Zebrowski, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Crown, 1983, pp. 293-329
  
• The Time Travelers: A Science Fiction Quartet, Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Donald I. Fine, April 1985, pp. 11-66
  
• Neanderthals, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Signet, 1987, pp. 311-350
  
• The Ugly Little Boy / The Widget, the Wadget, and Boff, Isaac Asimov and Theodore Sturgeon, Tor (pbk), June 1989 (A Tor Double)
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Elsewhere X 3, Damon Knight, ed. Coronet (pbk), 1974
  

A Statue For Father

Title Before Publication: Benefactor of Humanity
First Published In: Satellite Science Fiction, February 1959, pp. 33-41
Reprinted In: Saturday Evening Post, March/April 1973, pp. 28-29, 104
Collections:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Science Fictional Dinosaur, Robert Silverberg, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Avon/Flare, February 1982, pp. 147-153
  
• Through the Sunshine, Donna Alvermann, Connie A. Bridge, Barbara A. Schmidt, Lyndon W. Searfoss, and Peter Winograd, eds. D. C. Heath, 1989
  

Anniversary

First Published In: Amazing Science Fiction Stories, March 1959, pp. 24-37
Collections:

• Asimov's Mysteries
  
• The Best of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Best of Amazing, Joseph Ross, ed. Doubleday, 1967, pp. 107-125
  

Unto the Fourth Generation

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1959, pp. 80-86
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Robert P. Mills, ed. Doubleday, 1960, pp. 183-191
  
• Wandering Stars, Jack Dann, ed. Harper & Row, 1974, pp. 50-58
  
• Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories, Marvin Kaye, ed. Science Fiction Book Club, February 1991, pp. 221-232
  

Obituary

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1959, pp. 103-117
Collections:

• Asimov's Mysteries
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Rain, Rain, Go Away

First Published In: Fantastic Universe, September 1959, pp. 4-10
Collections:

• Have You Seen These?
  
• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

The Covenant

First Published In: Fantastic Story Magazine, July 1960, pp. 6-46
Note: A round-robin story written with Poul Anderson, Robert Sheckley, Murray Leinster, and Robert Bloch
Reprinted In: Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told / Thrilling Science Fiction Adventures, Number 2, 1966, pp. 13-???
Collections:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Anthologies:

• Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, no. 2, 1966, pp. 13-20
  

Thiotimoline and the Space Age

First Published In: Analog Science Fact & Fiction, October 1960, pp. 155-162
Collections:

• Opus 100
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  

Anthologies:

• The 6th Annual of the Year's Best S-F, Judith Merril, ed. Simon & Schuster, 1961, pp. 175-183
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Ostenfor Sogi, Birge Bringsvoerd, ed. Oslo: Den Norske Bokklubben, 1970
  

What Is This Thing Called Love?

Title When First Published: Playboy and the Slime God
First Published In: Amazing Stories, March 1961, pp. 30-43
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Science Fiction Oddities, Groff Conklin, ed. Berkley, 1966, pp. 16-28
  
• Flying Saucers, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Fawcett Crest, 1982, pp. 17-29
  
• Amazing Stories: 60 Years of the Best of Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. TSR, 1985, pp. 93-101
  
• Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 23 (1961), Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. DAW (pbk), 1991, pp. 154-167
  
• UFOs: The Greatest Stories, Martin H. Greenberg, ed. MJF Books, June 1996, pp. 97-106
  

Anthologies:

• Sex in the 21st Century, Michel Parry and Milton Subotsky, eds. Panther (pbk), 1979
  
• Girls for the Slime God (as "Playboy and the Slime God"), Mike Resnick, ed. Obscura Press (pbk.), September 1997, pp. 191-204
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy, Peter Haining, ed. London: Souvenir Press, March 1996, pp. 259-272
  

The Machine that Won the War

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1961, pp. 51-55
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 11th Series, Robert Mills, ed. Doubleday, 1962, pp. 76-81
  
• Best SF #7, Edmund Crispin, ed. Faber & Faber, 1970
  
• The Golden Age of Science Fiction, Kingsley Amis, ed.
  
• Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow: Science Fiction War Stories, Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Crown/Bonanza, 1987, pp. 646-650
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1980, Munich: Wilhelm Heyne, 1980
  
• The SF Collection, Edel Brosnan, ed. London: Chancellor Press, 1994, pp. 262-267
  

My Son, the Physicist

First Published In: Scientific American (advertisement for Hoffman Electronics), February 1962, pp. 110-111
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Science Fiction Horizons No. 1, Tom Boardman Jr., ed. Dobson, 1968
  

Star Light

First Published In: Scientific American (advertisement for Hoffman Electronics), October 1962, pp. 76-77
Reprinted In: Fortune (advertisement for Hoffman Electronics), November 1962, pp. 170-171
Collections:

• Asimov's Mysteries
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• New Writings in SF - 4, John Carnell, ed. Bantam Books, 1965
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• New Writings in SF - 4, John Carnell, ed. Dobson, 1965
  
• The Best From New Writings in S-F First Selection, John Carnell, ed. Dobson, 1971, pp. 209-216
  
• To Each His Star / Jedem Seinen Stern, Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1979
  
• Science Fiction Stories, Ulrike Becker & Claus Varrelmann, eds. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (pbk), August 1993, pp. 6-15
  

Author! Author!

First Published In: The Unknown Five, D. R. Benson, ed. Pyramid, 1964, pp. 15-42
Collections:

• The Early Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  

Anthologies:

• Ghosts, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Signet, 1988, pp. 39-66
  
• Eastern Ghosts, Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Rutledge Hill Press, October 1990, pp. 178-208
  

Eyes Do More Than See

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1965, pp. 115-117
Reprinted In: Man and His World, October 1965
Read Magazine (American Education Publications), Oct 15, 1965
The Diversifier, May 1977
Literary Calvacade, January 1980, pp. 16-17
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• Science Fiction by Asimov
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 15th Series, Edward L. Ferman, ed. Doubleday, 1966, pp. 129-133
  
• 11th Annual of the Year's Best S-F, Judith Merril, ed. Delacorte, 1966, pp. 214-217
  
• 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Doubleday, 1978, pp. 199-202
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Beyond the Curtain of Dark, Peter Haining, ed. Four Square Books (pbk), 1966, pp. 318-320
  

Note: Nominated for the 1965 Nebula Award for Best Short Story

The Man Who Made the 21st Century

First Published In: Boys' Life, October 1965, pp. 16-17, 66-67
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Founding Father

Title Before Publication: The Last Tool
First Published In: Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1965, pp. 165-171
Collections:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• SF: Author's Choice, Henry Harrison, ed. Berkley, 1968, pp. 46-55
  
• Themes in Science Fiction, Leo P. Kelley, ed. McGraw-Hill, 1972, pp. 76-81
  
• Science Fact/Fiction, Edmund J. Farrell, Thomas E. Gage, John Pfordresher, and Raymond J. Rodrigues, eds. Scott, Foresman, & Co. (pbk), 1974, pp. 191-195
  
• Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction, Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Playboy Press, 1980, pp. 258-266
  
• Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction, Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Wideview Books, 1981, pp. 250-258
  
• Starships, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Fawcett Crest, 1983, pp. 313-320
  
• Galaxy, Frederik Pohl, ed.
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Oneindig Moment, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1986
  

Note: Nominated for the 1965 Nebula Award for Best Short Story

Fantastic Voyage

First Published In: The Saturday Evening Post, February 26, 1966 (Part 1), pp. 40-44, 46-51, 53, 56-58, 60, 61; March 12, 1966 (Part 2), pp. 56-60, 62-68, 70, 73-77
Note: Serialized version of Fantastic Voyage

The Key

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1966, pp. 5-31
Collections:

• Asimov's Mysteries
  
• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov
  
• Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 16th Series, Edward L. Ferman, ed. Doubleday, 1967, pp. 76-109
  
• The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Edward L. Ferman, ed. Doubleday, 1974
  

Segregationist

First Published In: Abbotempo 4 (Abbott Loboratories), 1967, pp. 34-36
Reprinted In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1968, pp. 80-84
Scope (Boston University Medical School), February 1968, pp. 10-13
Collections:

• Nightfall and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• Robot Visions
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Best SF 1968, Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, eds. G.P. Putnam's, 1969, pp. 82-88
  
• Science Fiction 1, Robert Pierce, ed. Houghton Mifflin (pbk), 1973
  
• 101 Science Fiction Stories, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, and Jenny-Lynn Waugh, eds. Crown/Avenel, June 1986, pp. 531-536
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 2, Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, eds. Sphere (pbk), 1969
  
• The Year's Best Science Fiction, Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, eds. Severn House, 1977
  

The Billiard Ball

First Published In: If: Worlds of Science Fiction, March 1967, pp. 6-37
Collections:

• Asimov's Mysteries
  
• The Best of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Edge Of Tomorrow
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• World's Best Science Fiction, 4th Series, Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, eds. Ace (pbk), 1968, pp. 94-112
  
• The Second If Reader of Science Fiction, Frederik Pohl, ed. Doubleday, 1968, pp. 24-47
  
• Alfred Hitchcock's Fear, Cathleen Jordan, ed. Davis Publications (pbk), 1982, pp. 43-60
  
• Alfred Hitchcock's Your Share of Fear, Cathleen Jordan, ed. Dial Press, 1982, pp. 43-60
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• 2001 and Beyond: Science Fiction Stories, H. G. Stenzel, ed. Hong Kong: Longman (pbk), 1975, pp. 77-84
  

Exile to Hell

First Published In: Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1968, pp. 50-53
Collections:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Far-Out People, Robert Hoskins, ed. Signet (pbk), 1971
  
• 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Doubleday, 1978, pp. 93-96
  

Key Item

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1968, pp. 76-79
Reprinted In: The Saturday Evening Post, Spring 1972, pp. 74-75, as "The Computer That Went On Strike"
Collections:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

The Proper Study

First Published In: Boys' Life, September 1968, pp. 32, 69
Collection:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  

The Holmes-Ginsbook Device

Title When First Published:
First Published In: If: Worlds of Science Fiction, December 1968, pp. 5-14
Collection:

• Opus 100
  

Anthologies:

• Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology, Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Bluejay Books, 1986, pp. 326-335
  

Feminine Intuition

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1969, pp. 4-23
Collections:

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• Robot Visions
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• Twenty Years of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Edward L. Ferman and Robert P. Mills, eds. G. P. Putnam, 1970, pp. 80-101
  

Waterclap

First Published In: If: Worlds of Science Fiction, April 1970, pp. 4-34
Collection:

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
  

Anthologies:

• World's Best Science Fiction 1971, Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, eds. Ace, 1971, pp. 93-?
  
• The Best From If, Volume I, Award Books (pbk), 1973
  
• The Science Fictional Solar System, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Harper & Row, 1979, pp. 93-129
  
• Terrorists of Tomorrow, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Lorevan/Critic's Choice, January 1986, p. 289-321
  
• Ascent of Wonder, David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, eds. Tor, July 1994, pp. 377-397
  

2430 A.D. - Too Late For the Space Ark

First Published In: Think: IBM Magazine, October 1970
Collection:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  

The Greatest Asset

First Published In: Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1972, pp. 44-50
Collections:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Second Annual Collection, Lester Del Rey, ed. E. P. Dutton & Co., 1973, pp. 67-75
  

Take a Match

First Published In: New Dimensions II, Robert Silverberg, ed. Doubleday, 1972, pp. 116-138
Collections:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Mirror Image

First Published In: Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1972, pp. 149-162
Collections:

• The Best of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• Robot Visions
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• Science Fiction: Masters of Today, Dr. Arthur Liebman, ed. Richards Rosen Press, 1981, pp. 97-112
  
• Tin Stars, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Signet, 1986, pp. 163-179
  

Thiotimoline to the Stars

First Published In: Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology, Harry Harrison, ed. Random House, 1973, pp. 45-54
Collection:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  

Light Verse

First Published In: Saturday Evening Post, September-October 1973
Collections:

• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
  
• Opus 200
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to be Read with the Door Locked, Alfred Hitchcock, ed. Random House, 1975, pp. 89-93
  
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to be Read with the Door Locked (Volume I), Alfred Hitchcock, ed. Dell (pbk), 1977, pp. 121-126
  

Big Game

First Published In: Before the Golden Age, 1974
Collection:

• Before the Golden Age (anthology)
  

The Dream

First Published In: Saturday Evening Post, January-February 1974, pp. 44-47
Collections:

• The Dream, Benjamin's Dream, and Benjamin's Bicentennial Blast
  
• Opus 200
  

Benjamin's Dream

Title Before Publication: The Second Dream
First Published In: Saturday Evening Post, April 1974
Collection:

• The Dream, Benjamin's Dream, and Benjamin's Bicentennial Blast
  

-That Thou Art Mindful of Him

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1974, pp. 4-24
Collections:

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• Final Stage, Edward L. Ferman and Barry Malzberg, eds. Charterhouse, 1974, pp. 89-116
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Souls in Metal, Mike Ashley, ed. London: St. Martin's Press/Robert Hale, 1977, pp. 37-64
  

Party By Satellite

Title Before Publication: The Third Dream
First Published In: Saturday Evening Post, May 1974, pp. 34-37, 127
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Stranger in Paradise

First Published In: If: Worlds of Science Fiction, May-June 1974, pp. 4-28
Collections:

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Best From If, Volume 2, Award Books, 1974
  
• The 1975 Annual World's Best SF, Donald A. Wollheim, ed. DAW (pbk), 1975, pp. 251-277
  

Benjamin's Bicentennial Blast

Title Before Publication: The Fourth Dream
First Published In: Saturday Evening Post, June-July 1974, pp. 50-51, 136-137, 144
Collection:

• The Dream, Benjamin's Dream, and Benjamin's Bicentennial Blast
  

Half-Baked Publisher's Delight

First Published In: If: Worlds of Science Fiction, July-August 1974, pp. 39-43
Note: Asimov provided an alternate ending for the story by Jeffrey S. Hudson
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Anthologies:

• The Best From If, Volume III, James Baen, ed. Award Books, 1976
  
• 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Doubleday, 1978, pp. 130-134
  

The Heavenly Host

First Published In: Boys' Life, December 1974, pp. 32-35, 62-66, 73, 75
Note: Lengthened and published as the book The Heavenly Host
Collection:

• The Heavenly Host
  

Anthologies:

• Skylark Science Fiction Stories, Jill Bennett, ed. Book Club Association, 1980, pp. 155-
  

The Life and Times of Multivac

First Published In: The New York Times Magazine, January 5, 1975, pp. 12, 51, 56, 58, 70
Reprinted In: Creative Computing, November/December 1975, pp. 8-13
Collections:

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• Ascent of Wonder, David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, eds. Tor, July 1994, pp. 167-173
  

A Boy's Best Friend

First Published In: Boys' Life, March 1975, pp. 26-27
Collection:

• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  

Point of View

First Published In: Boys' Life, July 1975, p. 34
Reprinted In: Children's Digest, February 1976, pp. 52-56
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1979, pp. 94-97
Collection:

• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  

The Bicentennial Man

First Published In: Stellar-2, Judy-Lynn del Rey, ed. Ballantine, 1976
Collections:

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
  
• Opus 200
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  
• Robot Visions
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• The Best Science Fiction of the Year, no. 6, Terry Carr, ed. Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1977, pp. 332-379
  
• The 1977 Annual World's Best SF, Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, eds. DAW (pbk), 1977
  
• Nebula Winners 12, Gordon R. Dickson, ed. Harper & Row, 1978
  
• The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction, Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Arbor House, 1980, pp. 521-556
  
• Machines That Think, Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984, pp. 519-561
  
• Philosophy and Science Fiction, Michael Philips, ed., Prometheus, 1984, pp. 183-216
  
• The Hugo Winners, Volume 4, Isaac Asimov, ed. Doubleday, 1985, pp. 259-299
  
• Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century [The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction], Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Crown/Avenel, November 1987, pp. 521-556
  
• The Super Hugos, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles Sheffield, eds. Baen Books, 1992, pp. 55-100
  
• Science Fiction The Future, Dick Allen, ed. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Beyond the Stars [first half of The Hugo Winners: Volume 4], Isaac Asimov, ed. London: Severn House, Feb 1987, pp. 259-301
  

Note: Winner of the 1976 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
Winner of the 1977 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
Winner of the 1977 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette

Good Taste

First Published In: Good Taste, 1976
Note: First published as a pamphlet by Apocalypse Press in 1976, listed as book #174
Reprinted In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Fall 1977, pp. 62-80
Collections:

• Opus 200
  
• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  

Anthologies:

• Asimov's Choice: Astronauts & Androids, Dale, 1977, pp. 102-125
  
• Science Fiction Masterpieces, Galahad Books, 1986, pp. 51-64
  

Old-fashioned

First Published In: Bell Telephone, January-February 1976
Collections:

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

The Winnowing

First Published In: Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, February 1976, pp. 54-61
Note: Sold to appear in the June 1975 issue of Physician's World magazine, but the magazine suspended publication before it appeared.
Collection:

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
  

Anthologies:

• Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Great Scientists, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Primus, 1985, pp. 210-217
  

Marching In

First Published In: High Fidelity, April (May?) 1976
Collections:

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Birth of a Notion

First Published In: Amazing Stories, June 1976, pp. 6-9, 19
Collection:

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Il Meglio Di "Amazing Stories", Giuseppe Lipp, ed. Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1989
  

The Tercentenary Incident

Title Before Publication: Death at the Tercentenary
First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1976, pp. 39-54
Collections:

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 2
  

Anthologies:

• Futurecrime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come, Cynthia Manson and Charles Ardai, eds. Donald I. Fine, January 1992, pp. 87-106
  

To Tell at a Glance

First Published In: Saturday Evening Post, February 1977, pp. 59, 78, 80-81
Collection:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  

True Love

First Published In: American Way, February 1977, pp. 8-10
Collections:

• Three By Asimov
  
• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  

Anthologies:

• Microcosmic Tales, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Taplinger, 1980, pp. 160-164
  

Think!

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Spring 1977, pp. 40-48
Note: Originally appeared in an advertising program for Coherent Radiation
Collections:

• The Complete Robot
  
• The Robot Collection (omnibus edition)
  
• Robot Visions
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Beproeving In De Ruimteen Andere Verhalen, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1970
  
• Countdown, H. J. Alpers, ed. Munich: Droemer Knaur, 1979
  

Sure Thing

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Summer 1977, pp. 47-48
Collections:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  

Collection:

• Isaac Asimov's Masters of Science Fiction, George Scithers, ed. Davis Publications, 1978
  
• Aliens & UFO's, Cynthia Mason and Charles Ardai, eds. Smithmark Publishing, 1993, pp. 303-304
  

About Nothing

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Summer 1977, p. 46
Note: Originally appeared on a "story postcard" in Great Britain in 1975
Collection:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  

Fair Exchange?

First Published In: Asimov's Science Fiction Adventure Magazine, Fall 1978, pp. 56-65
Collections:

• Three By Asimov
  
• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  

Found!

First Published In: Omni, October 1978, pp. 118, 120, 164-167
Reprinted In: Eastern Review, May 1983, p. 28
Collections:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  
• The Edge of Tomorrow
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  

Anthologies:

• The Best of Omni Science Fiction, Ben Bova and Don Myrus, ed. Omni Society, 1980, pp. 4-9
  
• Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, 1978, Gardner R. Dozois, ed. Elsvier-Dutton, 1979
  
• The First Omni Book of Science Fiction, Ellen Datlow, ed. Zebra (pbk), 1983
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Bestien Fur Norn, H. J. Alpers, ed. Munich: Droemer Knaur, 1980
  

It is Coming

First Published In: (Field Enterprises), 1979
Collection:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  

Strike!

First Published In: Omni, January 1979, p. 146
Anthology:

• The Best of Omni Science Fiction, No. 4, Ben Bova and Don Myrus, eds. Omni Publications, 1982, p. 131
  

Nothing for Nothing

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1979, pp. 136-147
Collections:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  

Anthologies:

• Isaac Asimov's Marvels of Science Fiction, George Scithers, ed. The Dial Press, 1979, pp. 118-129
  
• Science Fiction Masterpieces, Galahad Books, 1986, pp. 579-586
  
• Orbit #1 (graphic adaptation), Letitia Glozer, ed. Eclipse Books (pbk), May 1990
  

How It Happened

First Published In: Asimov's Science Fiction Adventure Magazine, Spring 1979, pp. 64-65
Collections:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• Isaac Asimov's Adventures of Science Fiction, George Scithers, ed. The Dial Press, 1980, pp. 226-228
  
• Science Fiction Masterpieces, Galahad Books, 1986, p. 242
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Isaac Asimov's Choice, London: Hale, 1986, pp. 246-247
  

The Last Answer

First Published In: Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1980, pp. 158-165
Collections:

• Three By Asimov
  
• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• Robot Dreams
  

Anthologies:

• Microcosmic Tales, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Taplinger, 1980, pp. 1-8
  
• Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, 1980, Gardner R. Dozois, ed. E. P. Dutton, 1981
  

Note: Nominated for the 1980 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story

For the Birds

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1980, pp. 82-90
Collections:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  

Anthologies:

• Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World, Kathleen Moloney, ed. Dial Press, 1982, pp. 53-61
  

Death of a Foy

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1980, pp. 95-96
Collections:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• Science Fiction by Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• Laughing Space, Isaac Asimov and J. O. Jeppson, eds. Houghton Mifflin, 1982, pp. 288-289

Ignition Point!

First Published In: Finding the Right Speaker, 1981
Collections:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  

A Perfect Fit

First Published In: EDN Magazine, October 14, 1981, p. 266
Collections:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  
• Opus 300
  

The Last Shuttle

First Published In: Today (Gannett newspaper supplement), April 10, 1981
Collection:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  

Anthologies:

• Space Shuttles, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Signet, 1987, pp. 81-84
  

The Winds of Change

First Published In: Speculations, 1982, pp. 52-70
Collection:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  
• The Edge Of Tomorrow

Anthologies:

• Speculations, Isaac Asimov and Alice Laurance, eds. Houghton Mifflin, 1982, pp. 52-70
  

Lest We Remember

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 15, 1982, pp. 56-84
Collections:

• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
  
• Robot Dreams
  
• Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  

The Super Runner

First Published In: Runner's World, October 1982, pp. 62-67
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Potential

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1983, pp. 32-41
Collection:

• Science Fiction by Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• The 1984 Annual World's Best SF, Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, eds. DAW (pbk), June 1984, pp. 33-40
  
• Tales From Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Sheila Williams and Cynthia Manson, eds. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986, pp. 115-126
  

Note: Nominated for the 1984 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story

The Ten-Second Election

First Published In: Omni, November 1984, p. 112
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Hallucination

First Published In: Boys' Life, February, March, April 1985
Collection:

• Gold
  

Feghoot and the Courts

Title When First Published: Burnside and the Courts
First Published In: Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?, James Charlton, ed. Doubleday, 1986, pp. 62-64
Collection:

• Gold
  

Robot Dreams

First Published In: Robot Dreams, 1986
Reprinted In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, mid-December 1986, pp. 18-24
Collection:

• Robot Dreams
  

Anthologies:

• Nebula Awards 22, George Zebrowski, ed. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, April 1988, pp. 10-18
  
• Isaac Asimov's Robots, Gardner R. Dozois and Sheila Williams, eds. Ace (pbk), November 1991, pp. 2-7
  

Note: Nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
Nominated for the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
Winner of the 1987 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story
Winner of the 1987 Asimov's Reader Poll for Best Short Story

Left to Right

First Published In: Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1987, pp. 156-157
Collection:

• Gold
  

Left to Right, and Beyond

First Published In: Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, July 1987
Note: "Left to Right", with an alternative ending provided by Harrison Roth
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

The Fable of the Three Princes

First Published In: Spaceships & Spells: A Collection of New Fantasy and Science-Fiction Stories, Jane Yolen, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Harper & Row, November 1987, pp. 59-84
Collection:

• Magic
  

Anthologies:

• Visions of Fantasy, Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Doubleday, 1989, pp. 123-145
  

Good-bye to Earth

First Published In: Interview, January 1989, p. 62
Collection:

• Gold
  

The Turning Point

First Published In: The Drabble Project, Rob Meades and David B. Wake, eds. London: Beccon Publications, April 1988, p. 16
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

The Smile of the Chipper

Title When First Published: Man as the Ultimate Gadget
First Published In: Business Week's 1988 Guide to Giving, October 21, 1988, p. 46
Reprinted In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1989, pp. 64-66
Collection:

• Gold
  

Anthologies:

• Isaac Asimov's Robots, Gardner R. Dozois and Sheila Williams, eds. Ace (pbk), November 1991, pp. 21-24
  

Christmas Without Rodney

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, mid-December 1988, pp. 18-25
Collection:

• Robot Visions
  

Anthologies:

• Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories, Martin H. Greenberg, ed. Avon (pbk), December 1990, pp. 202-212
  
• Isaac Asimov's Robots, Gardner R. Dozois and Sheila Williams, eds. Ace (pbk), November 1991, pp. 13-20
  
• Isaac Asimov's Christmas, Gardner R. Dozois and Sheila Williams, eds. Ace (pbk), December 1997, pp. 163-171
  

Note: Nominated for the 1989 Asimov's Reader Poll for Best Short Story

The Instability

First Published In: The London Observer, January 1, 1989, pp. 28-?
Collection:

• Gold
  

Anthologies:

• Timescapes, Peter Haining, ed. Souvenir Press, August 1997, pp. 56-58
  

Alexander the God

First Published In: Columbia, June/July 1989, p. 30
Collection:

• Gold
  

Too Bad!

First Published In: The Microverse, Bantam, November 1989, pp. 75-83
Reprinted In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, mid-December 1989, pp. 18-26
Collection:

• Robot Visions
  

Anthologies:

• Isaac Asimov's Robots, Gardner R. Dozois and Sheila Williams, eds. Ace (pbk), November 1991, pp. 25-32
  

Robot Visions

First Published In: Robot Visions, April 1990
Reprinted In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1991, pp. 24-41
Collection:

• Robot Visions
  

Note: Nominated for the 1992 Asimov's Reader Poll for Best Short Story

Fault-Intolerant

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1990, pp. 68-72
Collection:

• Gold
  

Anthologies:

• Isaac Asimov's Robots, Gardner R. Dozois and Sheila Williams, eds. Ace (pbk), November 1991, pp. 8-12
  

Forward the Foundation

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November 1991, pp. 18-95
Note: Serialized version of Forward the Foundation, part 1

Cleon the Emperor

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1992, pp. 240-303
Note: Serialized version of Forward the Foundation, part 2

The Consort

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1993, pp. 238-303
Note: Serialized version of Forward the Foundation, part 3

Star Empire

First Published In: Argosy, May 1990, pp. 70-72
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

In the Canyon

First Published In: Omni, July 1990, pp. 50-52
Collection:

• Gold
  

Kid Brother

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, mid-December 1990, pp. 16-24
Collection:

• Gold
  

Note: Nominated for the 1991 Asimov's Reader Poll for Best Short Story

Gold

First Published In: Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1991, pp. 10-40
Collection:

• Gold
  

Anthologies:

• The New Hugo Winners Volume IV, Gregory Benford & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Baen Books (pbk.), November 1997, pp. 27-64
  

Note: Winner of the 1992 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
Nominated for the 1992 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette

Cal

First Published In: Cal, Doubleday, 1991
Collection:

• Gold
  

Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon

First Published In: Once Upon a Time: A Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales, Lester Del Rey and Risa Kessler, eds. Del Rey, November 1991, pp. 3-19
Collection:

• Magic
  

Foreign Anthologies:

• Fantasy Stories, Diana Wynne Jones, ed. London: Kingfisher, August 1994, pp. 96-115
  

Frustration

First Published In: There Won't Be War, Harry Harrison and Bruce McAllister, eds. Tor, November 1991, pp. 7-10
Collection:

• Gold
  

Battle-Hymn

First Published In: ???
Collection:

• Gold
  

The Nations in Space

First Published In: ???
Collection:

• Gold
  

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