Isaac Asimov

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Works published in book form

Pebble in the Sky, novel, 1950

I, Robot, story collection, 1950

Includes "Robbie", "Runaround", "Reason", "Catch that Rabbit", "Liar!", "Little Lost Robot", "Escape!", "Evidence" and "The Evitable Conflict"

The Stars, Like Dust, novel, 1951

The Foundation Trilogy, 1951–1953:

Foundation, novel, 1951

Foundation and Empire, novel, 1952

Second Foundation, novel, 1953

The Currents of Space, novel, 1952

Lucky Starr series, 1952–1958:

David Starr, Space Ranger, juvenile novel, 1952

Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids, juvenile novel, 1953

Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus, juvenile novel, 1954

Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury, juvenile novel, 1956

Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter, juvenile novel, 1957

Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn, juvenile novel, 1958

The Caves of Steel, novel, 1954

The End of Eternity, novel, 1955

The Martian Way and Other Stories, novella collection, 1955

Includes The Martian Way, Youth, The Deep and Sucker Bait

The Naked Sun, novel, 1957

Earth Is Room Enough, story and poetry collection, 1957

First book appearance of stories "The Dead Past", "Franchise", "Gimmicks Three", "Kid Stuff", "The Watery Place", "Living Space", "The Message", "Satisfaction Guaranteed", "Hell-Fire", "The Last Trump", "The Fun They Had", "Jokester", "The Immortal Bard", "Someday", "Dreaming Is a Private Thing"; poems/songs "The Foundation of S.F. Success", "The Author's Ordeal"

The Death Dealers, novel, also known as A Whiff of Death, 1958

Nine Tomorrows, story and poetry collection, 1959

First book appearance of stories "Profession", "The Feeling of Power", "The Dying Night", "I'm in Marsport Without Hilda", "The Gentle Vultures", "All the Troubles of the World", "Spell My Name with an S", "The Last Question", "The Ugly Little Boy"; poems "I Just Make Them Up, See!", "Rejection Slips"

The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science, science, 1960

Words from the Myths, criticism, 1961

Fact and Fancy, essay collection, 1962

View from a Height, essay collection, 1963

The Rest of the Robots, story and novel collection, 1964

First book appearance of stories "Robot AL-76 Goes Astray", "Victory Unintentional", "First Law", "Let's Get Together", "Risk", "Lenny", "Galley Slave"

The Greeks: A Great Adventure, history, 1965

Fantastic Voyage, novel, 1966

The Roman Republic, history, 1966

Through a Glass, Clearly, story collection, 1967

Includes "It's Such a Beautiful Day", "Belief", "Breeds There a Man...?", "C-Chute"

Asimov's Guide to the Bible, Vol. I, criticism, 1967

The Roman Empire, history, 1967

Asimov's Mysteries, story collection, 1968

First book appearance of "The Singing Bell", "The Talking Stone", "What's in a Name?", "Pâté de Foie Gras", "The Dust of Death", "A Loint of Paw", "I'm in Marsport Without Hilda" (original version), "Marooned Off Vesta", "Anniversary", "Obituary", "Star Light", "The Key", "The Billiard Ball"

The Dark Ages, history, 1968

Nightfall and Other Stories, story collection, 1969

First book appearance of "Nightfall", "Green Patches", "Hostess", "In a Good Cause—", "What If—", "Sally", "Flies", "Nobody Here But—", "Strikebreaker", "Insert Knob A in Hole B", "The Up-To-Date Sorcerer", "Unto the Fourth Generation", "What is This Thing Called Love?", "The Machine that Won the War", "My Son, the Physicist", "Eyes Do More Than See", "Segregationist"

Asimov's Guide to the Bible, Vol. II, criticism, 1969

Opus 100, story and essay collection, 1969

First book appearance of story "The Holmes-Ginsbook Device"

The Shaping of England, history, 1969

Asimov's Guide to the Shakespeare, Vols. I and II, criticism, 1970

Constantinople, the Forgotten Empire, history, 1970

The Best New Thing, children's story, 1971

Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor, humour, 1971

The Sensuous Dirty Old Man, humour, 1971

The Gods Themselves, novel, 1972

The Early Asimov, story collection, 1972

Includes "The Callistan Menace", "Ring Around the Sun", "The Magnificent Possession", "Trends", "The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use", "Black Friar of the Flame", "Half-Breed", "The Secret Sense", "Homo Sol", "Half-Breeds on Venus", "The Imaginary", "Heredity", "History", "Christmas on Ganymede", "The Little Man on the Subway", "The Hazing", "Super-Neutron", "Not Final!", "Legal Rites", "Time Pussy", "Author! Author!", "Death Sentence", "Blind Alley", "No Connection", "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline", "The Red Queen's Race" and "Mother Earth"

The Shaping of France, history, 1972

The Best of Isaac Asimov, story collection, 1973

"Mirror Image"

The Shaping of North America, history, 1973

Tales of the Black Widowers, story collection, 1974

First book appearance of "The Acquisitive Chuckle", "Ph As in Phony", "Truth to Tell", "Go, Little Book!", "Early Sunday Morning", "The Obvious Factor", "The Pointing Finger", "Miss What?", "The Lullaby of Broadway", "Yankee Doodle Went to Town", "The Curious Omission", "Out of Sight"

Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, story collection, 1975

First book appearance of "Darwinian Pool Room", "Day of the Hunters", "Shah Guido G.", "Button, Button", "The Monkey's Finger", "Everest", "The Pause", "Let's Not", "Each an Explorer", "Blank!", "Does a Bee Care?", "Silly Asses", "Buy Jupiter", "A Statue for Father", "Rain, Rain, Go Away", "Founding Father", ""Exile to Hell", "Key Item", "The Proper Study", "2430 A.D.", "The Greatest Asset", "Take a Match", "Thiotimoline to the Stars", "Light Verse"

Lecherous Limericks, humour, 1975

Murder at the ABA, novel, also known as Authorized Murder, 1976

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories, story and poetry collection, 1976

First book appearance of stories "Feminine Intuition", "Waterclap", "...That Thou Art Mindful of Him", "Stranger in Paradise", "The Life and Times of Multivac", "The Winnowing", "The Bicentennial Man", "Marching In", "Old-fashioned", "The Tercentenary Incident", "Birth of a Notion"; poem "The Prime of Life"

More Tales of the Black Widowers, story collection, 1976

First book appearance of "When No Man Pursueth", "Quicker Than the Eye", "The Iron Gem", "The Three Numbers", "Nothing Like Murder", "No Smoking", "Season's Greetings!", "The One and Only East", "Earthset and Evening Star", "Friday the Thirteenth", "The Unabridged", "The Ultimate Crime", "Afterword"

More Lecherous Limericks, humour, 1976

The Key Word and Other Mysteries, juvenile story collection, 1977, one story added 1982

First book appearance of "The Key Word", "Santa Claus Gets a Coin", "Sarah Tops", "The Thirteenth Day of Christmas", "A Case of Need", "The Disappearing Man"

Still More Lecherous Limericks, humour, 1977

Asimov's Sherlockian Limericks, humour, 1978

Limericks Too Gross, humour, 1978

In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920–1954, autobiography, 1979

Extraterrestrial Civilizations, science, 1979

Casebook of the Black Widowers, story collection, 1980

First book appearance of "The Cross of Lorraine", "The Family Man", "The Sports Page", "Second Best", "The Missing Item", "The Next Day", "Irrelevance!", "None So Blind", "The Backward Look", "What Time Is It?", "Middle Name", "To the Barest"

In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954–1978, autobiography, 1980

Asimov on Science Fiction, essay collection, 1981

In the Beginning..., criticism, 1981

A Grossery of Limericks, humour, 1981

Foundation Trilogy sequels and prequels, 1982–1993:

Foundation's Edge, novel, 1982

Foundation and Earth, novel, 1986

Prelude to Foundation, novel, 1988

Prelude to Foundation, novel, 1988

The Complete Robot, story collection, 1982

First book appearance of "A Boy's Best Friend", "Point of View", "Think!", "True Love"

The Robots of Dawn, novel, 1983

The Winds of Change and Other Stories, story collection, 1983

First book appearance of "About Nothing", "A Perfect Fit", "Death of a Foy", "Fair Exchange?", "For the Birds", "Found!", "Good Taste", "How It Happened", "Ideas Die Hard", "Ignition Point!", "It Is Coming", "The Last Answer", "The Last Shuttle", "Lest We Remember", "Nothing for Nothing", "One Night of Song", "The Smile That Loses", "Sure Thing", "To Tell at a Glance", "The Winds of Change"

The Union Club Mysteries, story collection, 1983

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

Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot, first of ten juvenile novels written mainly by Janet Asimov, 1983

Banquets of the Black Widowers, story collection, 1984

First book appearance of "Sixty Million Trillion Combinations", "The Woman in the Bar", "The Driver", "The Good Samaritan", "The Year of the Action", "Can You Prove It?", "The Phoenician Bauble", "A Monday in April", "Neither Brute Nor Human", "The Redhead", "The Wrong House", "The Intrusion"

Asimov's New Guide to Science, science, 1984

Robots and Empire, novel, 1985

The Edge of Tomorrow, story and essay collection, 1985

The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries, juvenile story collection, 1985

First book appearance of "Lucky Seven", "Christmas Solution, The", "The Twins", "The Man in the Park"

Robot Dreams, story collection, 1986

First book appearance of "Robot Dreams"

The Alternate Asimovs, novel, novella and story collection, 1986

First book appearance of novel Grow Old with Me (original version of Pebble in the Sky), novella The End of Eternity (original version of novel), story "Belief" (two earlier versions)

The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov, story and poetry collection, 1986

The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov, story collection, 1986

First book appearance of stories "The Magic Umbrella", "Never Out of Sight", "Speck", "A Problem of Numbers", "The Little Things", "Halloween", "Nothing Might Happen"

Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain, novel, 1987

Azazal, story collection, 1988

First book appearance of "The Two-Centimeter Demon", "One Night of Song", "The Smile That Loses", "To the Victor", "The Dim Rumble", "Saving Humanity", "A Matter of Principle", "The Evil Drink Does", "Writing Time", "Dashing Through the Snow", "Logic Is Logic", "He Travels the Fastest", "The Eye of the Beholder", "More Things in Heaven and Earth", "The Mind's Construction", "The Fights of Spring", "Galatea", "Flight of Fancy"

Nemesis, novel, 1989

Asimov on Science, essay collection, 1989

1990

Nightfall, novel, with Robert Silverberg, 1990

Robot Visions, story and essay collection, 1990

First book appearance of tories "Robot Visions", "Too Bad!", "Christmas Without Rodney"

Puzzles of the Black Widowers, story collection, 1990

First book appearance of "The Fourth Homonym", "Unique Is Where You Find It", "The Lucky Piece", "Triple Devil", "Sunset on the Water", "Where Is He?", "The Old Purse", "The Quiet Place", "The Four-Leaf Clover", "The Envelope", "The Alibi", "The Recipe"

Asimov's Chronology of the World, science and history, 1991

Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb, ecology, with Frederik Pohl, 1991

The Ugly Little Boy, novel, with Robert Silverberg, also known as Child of Time, 1992

Asimov Laughs Again, humour, 1992

Forward the Foundation, novel, 1993

The Positronic Man, novel, with Robert Silverberg, 1993

I. Asimov: A Memoir, memoir, 1994

Gold, story and essay collection, 1995

First book appearance of tories "Cal", "Left to Right", "Frustration", "Hallucination", "The Instability", "Alexander the God", "In the Canyon", "Good-bye to Earth", "Battle-Hymn", "Feghoot and the Courts", "Fault-Intolerant", "Kid Brother", "The Nations in Space", "The Smile of the Chipper", "Gold"

Magic, story and essay collection, 1996

First book appearance of tories "To Your Health", "The Critic on the Hearth", "It's a Job", "Baby, It's Cold Outside", "The Time Traveller", "Wine Is a Mocker", "The Mad Scientist", "The Fable of the Three Princes", "March Against the Foe", "Northwestward", "Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon"

The Return of the Black Widowers, story collection, including sixteen by Asimov, 2003

First book appearance of "Northwestward", "Yes, But Why", "Lost In a Space Warp", "Police at the Door", "The Haunted Cabin", "The Guest's Guest"

 

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