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[edit] Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was the most famous, most honored, most widely read, and most beloved science fiction author of all time. In his five decades as an author, he wrote more than four hundred books, won every award his readers and colleagues could contrive to give him, and provided pleasure and insight to millions.

Isaac Asimov was born in Russia in 1920 and grew up in the USA. His fantastic career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the appearence of a short story "Marooned Off Vesta', in Amazing Stories. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. With nearly five hundred books to his name and several hundred articles, Asimov's output was prolific by any standards. He died in 1992 at the age of 72.


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Series

  • Empire
    • Pebble in the Sky (1950)
    • The Stars Like Dust (1951)
    aka The Rebellious Stars 
    • The Currents of Space (1952)
  • Robot
    • I, Robot (1950)
    • The Rest of the Robots (1964)
    • Eight Stories from the Rest of the Robots (1966)
    • The Complete Robot (1982)
    • The Robots of Dawn (1983)
    • Robots and Empire (1985)
    • Robot Dreams (1986)
    • Robot Visions (1990)
  • Foundation
    • Foundation (1951)
    • Foundation and Empire (1952) aka The Man Who Upset the Universe
    • Second Foundation (1953)
    • Foundation Trilogy (omnibus) (1981)
    • Foundation's Edge (1982)
    • Foundation and Earth (1986)
    • Prelude to Foundation (1988)
    • Forward the Foundation (1993)
  • Lucky Starr (writing as Paul French)
    • David Starr, Space Ranger (1952)
    aka Space Ranger 
    • Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (1954)
    aka Pirates of the Asteroids 
    • Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus (1954)
    aka The Oceans of Venus 
    • Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury (1956)
    aka The Big Sun of Mercury 
    • Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter (1957)
    aka The Moons of Jupiter 
    • Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn (1958)
    aka The Rings of Saturn
 
  • R. Daneel Olivaw
    • The Caves of Steel (1954)
    • The Naked Sun (1956)
  • Black Widowers
    • Tales of the Black Widowers (1974)
    • More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976)
    • Banquets of The Black Widowers (1984)
    • Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1990)
    • The Return of the Black Widowers (2003)
  • Norby (with Janet Asimov)
    • Norby, the Mixed-up Robot (1983)
    • Norby's Other Secret (1984)
    • Norby and the Invaders (1985)
    • Norby and the Lost Princess (1985)
    • Norby and the Queen's Necklace (1986)
    • The Norby Chronicles (omnibus) (1986)
    • Norby Finds a Villain (1987)
    • Norby Through Time and Space (1988)
    • Robot for Hire (1988)
    • Norby and Yobo's Great Adventure (1989)
    • Norby Down to Earth (1989)
    • Norby and the Oldest Dragon (1990)
    • Norby and the Court Jester (1991)

Novels

  • The 1,000 Year Plan (1955)
  • The End of Eternity (1955)
  • Earth Is Room Enough (1957)
  • A Whiff of Death (1958)
    aka The Death Dealers 
The Double Planet (1960)
  • Fantastic Voyage (1966)
  • The Gods Themselves (1972)
  • The Heavenly Host (1975)
  • Good Taste (1976)
  • Murder at the ABA (1976)
    aka Authorized Murder 
Planet That Wasn't There (1976)
  • Prisoners of the Stars (1978)
  • The Casebook of the Black Widowers (1980)
  • Destination Brain: Fantastic Voyage II (1987)
  • Nemesis (1989)
  • Child of Time (1991) (with Robert Silverberg)
  • The Positronic Man (1992) (with Robert Silverberg)
  • The Ugly Little Boy (1992) (with Robert Silverberg)

Chapbooks

  • It's such a beautiful day (1985)
  • Franchise (1989)
  • Robbie (1989)
  • Sally (1989)

Collections

  • The Martian Way: And Other Stories (1955)
  • Nine Tomorrows (1959)
  • Through a Glass, Clearly (1967)
  • Asimov's Mysteries (1968)
  • Nightfall: And Other Stories (1969) (with Robert Silverberg)
  • ABC's of the Earth (1971)
  • The Best New Thing (1971)
  • Nightfall Two (1971)
  • The Early Asimov Volume 2 (1972)
  • The Early Asimov Volume 1 (1972)
    aka Eleven Years of Trying 
The Early Asimov Volume 3 (1972)
  • The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973)
  • Have You Seen These? (1974)
  • Buy Jupiter: And Other Stories (1975)
  • Lecherous Limericks (poems) (1975)
  • Bicentennial Man: And Other Stories (1976)
  • The Complete Stories (1976)
  • More Lecherous Limericks (poems) (1976)
  • Asimov's Sherlockian Limericks (poems) (1977)
  • The Key Word and Other Mysteries (1977)
  • Still more lecherous limericks (poems) (1977)
  • Limericks (poems) (1978)
  • Limericks: Too Gross (poems) (1978) (with John Ciardi)
  • A Grossery of Limericks (poems) (1981) (with John Ciardi)
  • The Robot Collection (omnibus) (1983)
  • The Union Club Mysteries (1983)
  • The Winds of Change: And Other Stories (1983)
  • Isaac Asimov's Limericks for Children (poems) (1984)
  • The Disappearing Man: And Other Mysteries (1985)
  • The Edge of Tomorrow (1985)
  • The Alternate Asimovs (1986)
  • The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986)
  • Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov (1987)
  • Azazel (1988)
  • All the Troubles of the World (1989)
  • The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov (1989)
  • Pshrinks Anonymous: The Mysterious Cure And Other Stories (1990)
  • Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection (1991)
  • The Complete Stories Volume Two (1995)
  • Magic (1995)

Anthology series

  • Nebula Award Stories
    • Nebula Award Stories 8 (1973)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories (with Martin H Greenberg)
    • The Great SF Stories One: 1939 (1979)
    • The Great SF Stories Two: 1940 (1979)
    • The Great SF Stories 3: 1941 (1980)
    • The Great SF Stories 4: 1942 (1980)
    • The Great SF Stories 5: 1943 (1981)
    • The Great SF Stories 6: 1944 (1981)
    • The Great SF Stories 7: 1945 (1982)
    • The Great SF Stories 8: 1946 (1982)
    • The Great SF Stories 9: 1947 (1983)
    • The Great SF Stories 10: 1948 (1983)
    • The Great SF Stories 11: 1949 (1984)
    • The Great SF Stories 12: 1950 (1984)
    • The Great SF Stories 13: 1951 (1985)
    • The Great SF Stories 14: 1952 (1985)
    • The Great SF Stories 15: 1953 (1986)
    • The Great SF Stories 16: 1954 (1986)
    • The Great SF Stories 17: 1955 (1987)
    • The Great SF Stories 18 (1986)
    • The Great SF Stories 19: 1957 (1989)
    • The Great SF Stories 20 (1990)
    • The Great SF Stories 22 (1991)
    • The Great SF Stories 23 (1991)
    • The Great SF Stories 24 (1992)
    • The Great SF Stories 25 (1992)
  • Isaac Asimov's Wonderful World of Science Fiction (with Martin H Greenberg)
    • Intergalactic Empires (1983)
    • Comets (1986)
    • Tin Stars (1986)
  • Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy
    • Wizards (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
    • Witches (1984) (with Martin H Greenberg)
    • Cosmic Knights (1985) (with Martin H Greenberg)
    • Spells (1985) (with Martin H Greenberg)
    • Giants (1985) (with Martin H Greenberg)
    • Mythical Beasties (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg)
    • Magical Wishes (1986) (with Martin H Greenberg)
    • Atlantis (1988) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
    • Ghosts (1984) (with Martin H Greenberg)
    • Curses (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
    • Faeries (1991) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • Young...
    • Young Extraterrestrials (1984) (with Martin H Greenberg)
    • Young Mutants (1984) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
    • Young Ghosts (1985)
    • Young Monsters (1985)
    • Young Star Travelers (1986) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
    • Young Witches and Warlocks (1987) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Science Fiction (with Martin H Greenberg)
    • Invasions (1990)
  • Isaac Asimov's Anthologies
    • Isaac Asimov's Mars (1991) (with Gardner Dozois)
    • Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (1995) (with Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams)


Anthologies edited

  • The Hugo Winners: Volume 1 (1962)
  • Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales (1963) (with Groff Conklin)
  • Tomorrow's Children (1966)
  • The Hugo Winners 1968-1970 (1971)
  • Treasury of Humour (1972)
  • The Hugo Winners 1963-1967 (1973)
  • Mars, We Love You (1973)
  • Before the Golden Age Volume 4 (1974)
  • Before the Golden Age Volume 1: Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930's (1974)
  • Before the Golden Age Volume 2 (1974)
  • Before the Golden Age Volume 3 (1974)
  • Familiar Poems, Annotated (1977)
  • The Hugo Winners 1971-1975 (1977)
  • The Hugo Winners Volume 3, Part 2: 1973 (1977)
  • The Hugo Winners Volume 3, Part 3: 1974-1975 (1977)
  • 100 Great Science Fiction Stories (1978)
  • One Hundred Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978)
  • 13 Crimes of Science Fiction (1979)
  • Isaac Asimov's Marvels of Science Fiction (1979)
  • Isaac Asimov's Marvels of Science Fiction, Volume 2 (1979)
  • The Science Fictional Solar System (1979)
  • The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction (1980)
  • Future I: Short Stories (1980) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • The Future in Question (1980) (with Martin H Greenberg and Joseph Olander)
  • Microcosmic Tales (1980)
  • Space Mail (1980)
  • Who Done It? (1980) (with Alice Laurance)
  • 100 Malicious Little Mysteries (1981)
    aka Miniature Mysteries 
Catastrophes! (1981)
  • Fantastic Creatures (1981)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century (1981)
  • Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction (1981)
  • Space Mail 2 (1981)
  • Thinking Machines (1981) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • The Twelve Crimes of Christmas (1981)
  • Wild Inventions (1981) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • The Big Apple Mysteries (1982)
  • Dragon Tales (1982)
  • Flying Saucers (1982)
  • Supermen: Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction Volume 3 (1982) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • The Last Man on Earth (1982)
  • Laughing Space: Funny Science Fiction Chukled Over (1982)
  • Science Fiction A to Z (1982)
  • Speculations (1982)
  • Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries (1982)
  • TV: 2000 (1982)
  • 13 Horrors of Halloween (1983)
  • Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • Computer Crimes and Capers (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg and George Zebrowski)
  • Golden Years of SF (1983)
  • Golden Years of SF 2nd Series (1983)
  • Hallucination Orbit: Psychology in Science Fiction (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg and George R R Martin)
  • Show Business Is Murder (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • Starships (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines (1983)
  • 100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories (1984) (with Terry Carr and Martin H Greenberg)
  • Election Day 2084: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Politics (1984) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • Golden Years of SF 3rd Series (1984)
  • Golden Years of SF 4th Series (1984)
  • The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1970s (1984)
  • Murder On the Menu (1984)
  • Science Fiction 18: 1956 - Classic Stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction (1984) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • Science Fictional Olympics (1984)
  • Sherlock Holmes Through Time And Space (1984) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • Amazing Stories: 60 Years of the Best Science Fiction (1985) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Science Fiction Novels (1985)
  • Best Horror and Supernatural (1985)
  • Golden Years of SF 5th Series (1985)
  • Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Great Scientists (1985) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • The Hugo Winners, 1980-1982 (1986)
  • Isaac Asimov's Choice: 14 Top Science Fiction Stories (1986)
  • The Twelve Frights of Christmas (1986) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • Hound Dunnit (1987) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • Space Shuttles: Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction Volume 7 (1987) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • Neanderthals: Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction Volume 6 (1987) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • Encounters (1988)
  • Extraterrestrials (1988) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • Golden Years of SF 6th Series (1988)
  • Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (1988)
  • Robots: Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction Volume 9 (1988) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1930's (1988)
  • Mammoth Book of Short Fantasy Novels (1988)
  • Mammoth Book of Short SF Novels (1988)
  • The Sport of Crime (1988)
  • The Best Crime Stories of the Nineteenth Century (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • Friends, Robots, Countrymen (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940s (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • Purr-fect Crime: Fifteen Master Storytellers Celebrate the Sinister Feline (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg and Carol-Lynn Waugh)
  • Senior Sleuths: A Large Print Anthology of Mysteries and Puzzlers (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • Tales of the Occult (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • Visions of Fantasy: Tales From the Masters (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • Cosmic Critiques: How and Why Ten Science Fiction Stories Work (1990) (with Martin H Greenberg)
  • The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1950s (1990)
  • Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction (60s): Short Novels of the 1960s (1991)
  • War With the Robots: 28 of the Best Short Stories by the Greatest Names in 20th Century Science Fiction (1992)
  • The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s (1993) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
  • All-Time Favorite Science Fiction Stories (1998)


Non fiction series

  • Isaac Asimov's Library of the Universe
    • Mars (1967)
    • The Moon (1967)
    • Comets and Meteors (1973)
    • Jupiter, the Largest Planet (1973)
    • The Sun (1973)
    • Unidentified Flying Objects (1979)
    • Jupiter (1980)
    • Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs? (1987)
    • The Asteroids (1988)
    • How Was the Universe Born? (1988)
    • Our Milky Way and Other Galaxies (1988)
    • Quasars, Pulsars, And Black Holes (1988)
    • Saturn: The Ringed Beauty (1988)
    • Mythology and the Universe (1989)
  • Asimov's Guides
    • Asimov's Guide to The Bible (1968)
    • Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare (1970)
    • Asimov's Guide to Science (1972)
    • Asimov's New Guide to Science (1984)
    • Asimov's Guide to Halley's Comet (1985)
*ABC's of...
**ABCs Of Space (1969)
    aka Space Dictionary 
    • ABC's of the Ocean (1970)
    • ABC's of Ecology (1972)
How Did We Find Out About...
    • How Did We Find Out About Lasers? (1972)
        • How Did We Find Out the Earth Is Round? (1972)
    • How Did We Find Out About Dinosaurs? (1973)
    • How Did We Find Out About Electricity? (1973)
    • How Did We Find Out About Germs? (1973)
    • How Did We Find Out About Numbers? (1973)
    • How Did We Find Out About Vitamins? (1974)
    • How Did We Find Out About Comets? (1975)
    • How Did We Find Out About Energy? (1975)
    • How Did We Find Out About Atoms? (1976)
    • How Did We Find Out About Nuclear Power? (1976)
    • How Did We Find Out About Outer Space? (1977)
    • How Did We Find Out About Black Holes? (1978)
    • How Did We Find Out About Earthquakes? (1978)
    • How Did We Find Out About Antarctica? (1979)
    • How Did We Find Out About Our Human Roots? (1979)
    • How Did We Find Out About Coal? (1980)
    • How Did We Find Out About Oil? (1980)
    • How Did We Find Out About Life in the Deep Sea? (1981)
    • How Did We Find Out About Volcanoes? (1981)
    • How Did We Find Out About the Beginnings of Life? (1982)
    • How Did We Find Out About the Universe? (1982)
    • How Did We Find Out About Genes? (1983)
    • How Did We Find Out About Computers? (1984)
    • How Did We Find Out About Robots? (1984)
    • How Did We Find Out About DNA? (1985)
    • How Did We Find Out About the Atmosphere? (1985)
    • How Did We Find Out About Blood? (1986)
    • How Did We Find Out About the Speed of Light? (1986)
    • How Did We Find Out About Sunshine? (1987)
    • How Did We Find Out About the Brain? (1987)
    • How Did We Find Out About Superconductivity? (1988)
    • How Did We Find Out About Microwaves? (1989)
    • How Did We Find Out About Photosynthesis? (1989)
    • How Did We Find Out About Neptune? (1990)
    • How Did We Find Out About Pluto? (1990)
  • Asimov's Annotated
    • Asimov's Annotated Don Juan (1972)
    • Asimov's annotated Paradise lost (1974)
    • Asimov's Annotated Gulliver's travels (1980)
    • Asimov's Annotated Gilbert And Sullivan (1988)
  • Asimov on...
    • Asimov on Astronomy (1974)
    • Asimov on Chemistry (1974)
    • Asimov on Physics (1976)
    • Asimov on Numbers (1977)
    • Asimov On Science Fiction (1981)
    • Asimov On Science (1989)
  • Isaac Asimov's New Library of the Universe
    • Folklore and Legends of the Universe (1989)
    • The 21st Century in Space: Isaac Asimov's New Library of the Universe (1996)


Non fiction

  • The Chemicals of Life (1954)
  • Races and People (1955) (with William C Boyd)
  • Inside the Atom (1956)
  • Building Blocks of the Universe (1957)
  • Only a Trillion (1957)
  • The World of Carbon (1958)
  • The World of Nitrogen (1958)
  • The Clock We Live On (1959)
  • Realm of Numbers (1959)
  • Words of Science: And the History Behind Them (1959)
  • Breakthroughs In Science (1960)
  • The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science; Vol* Physical Sciences (1960)
  • The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science; Vol* Biological Sciences (1960)
  • The Kingdom of the Sun (1960)
  • Realm of Measure (1960)
  • Satellites in Outer Space (1960)
  • The Wellsprings of Life (1960)
  • The Bloodstream: River Of Life (The Living River) (1961)
  • The Realm of Algebra (1961)
  • Words from the Myths (1961)
  • Fact And Fancy (1962)
  • The Genetic Code (1962)
  • Life and Energy (1962)
  • Marvels of Science (1962)
  • The Search for the Elements (1962)
  • Words in Genesis (1962)
  • Words on the Map (1962)
  • The Human Body: Its Structure and Operation (1963)
  • The Human Brain: Its Capacities and Functions (1963)
  • The Kite that Won the Revolution (1963)
  • Words from the Exodus (1963)
  • Adding a Dimension (1964)
  • Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (1964)
  • Planets for Man (1964)
  • Quick and Easy Mathematics (1964)
  • A Short History of Biology (1964)
  • View from a Height: Seventeen Essays On Science (1964)
  • Asimov Laughs Again: More Than 700 Favorite Jokes, Limericks, and Anecdotes (1965)
  • An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule (1965)
  • Greeks: A Great Adventure (1965)
  • New Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (1965)
  • Of Time and Space and Other Things (1965)
  • A Short History of Chemistry (1965)
  • From Earth to Heaven: Seventeen Essays on Science (1966)
  • The Genetic Effects of Radiation (1966)
  • Neutrino: Ghost Particle of the Atom (1966)
  • The Noble Gases (1966)
  • The Roman Republic (1966)
  • Understanding Physics (1966)
  • Understanding Physics: Light Magnetism and Electricity (1966)
  • Understanding Physics: Motion Sound and Heat (1966)
  • Understanding Physics: The Electron, Proton, and Neutron (1966)
  • The Universe: From Flat Earth To Quaser (1966)
  • The Egyptians (1967)
  • Environments Out There (1967)
  • Is Anyone There? (1967)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents from Harding to Hiroshima (1967)
  • Roman Empire (1967)
  • To the Ends of the Universe (1967)
  • The Dark Ages (1968)
  • Galaxies (1968)
  • Great Ideas of Science (1968)
  • The Near East: 10,000 Years of History (1968)
  • Photosynthesis (1968)
  • Science, numbers and I (1968)
  • Stars (1968)
  • Words from History (1968)
  • Opus 100 (1969)
  • The Shaping of England (1969)
  • The Shaping of North America from Earliest Times to 1763 (1969)
  • Twentieth Century Discovery (1969)
  • Constantinople, the Forgotten Empire (1970)
  • Light (1970)
  • The Solar System And Back (1970)
  • The Land of Canaan (1971)
  • The Sensuous Dirty Old Man (1971)
  • The Stars in Their Courses (1971)
  • What Makes the Sun Shine? (1971)
  • Where Do We Go from Here? (1971)
  • Electricity And Man (1972)
  • Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humour: A Lifetime Collection of Favourite Jokes, Anecdotes and Limericks with Copious Notes on How to Tell Them and Why (1972)
  • Left Hand of the Electron (1972)
  • More Words of Science (1972)
  • The Shaping of France (1972)
  • The Story of Ruth (1972)
  • Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy (1972)
  • The Birth Of The United States, 1763-1816 (1973)
  • Please Explain (1973)
  • Today And Tomorrow And.. (1973)
  • The Tragedy of the Moon (1973)
  • Earth Our Crowded Spaceship (1974)
  • Our World In Space (1974)
  • Towards Tomorrow (1974)
  • American History (1975)
  • The Ends of the Earth: The Polar Regions of the World (1975)
  • Eyes on the Universe: A History of the Telescope (1975)
  • Of Matters Great And Small (1975)
  • Our Federal Union: The United States from 1816 to 1865 (1975)
  • Science Past, Science Future (1975)
  • The Solar System (1975)
  • Alpha Centauri, the Nearest Star (1976)
  • Frontiers: New Discoveries About Man and His Planet, Outer Space and the Universe (1976)
  • Space Beyond (1976)
  • The Beginning and the End (1977)
  • The Collapsing Universe: The Story of Black Holes (1977)
  • The Exploding Suns: The Secrets of the Supernovas (1977)
  • The Golden Door: The United States from 1865 to 1918 (1977)
  • Mars, the Red Planet (1977)
  • The Tyrannosaurus Prescription: And 100 Other Essays (1977)
  • Animals of the Bible (1978)
  • How Is Paper Made?: Ask Isaac Asimov (1978)
  • Life and Time (1978)
  • Quasar, Quasar Burning Bright (1978)
  • A Choice of Catastrophes: The Disasters That Threaten Our World (1979)
  • Extraterrestrial Civilizations (1979)
  • In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954 (1979)
  • Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts (1979)
  • Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor (1979)
  • Opus 200 (1979)
  • Road to Infinity (1979)
  • Saturn And Beyond (1979)
  • In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978 (1980)
  • Change!: Seventy-One Glimpses of the Future (1981)
  • How Did We Find Out About Solar Power? (1981)
  • In the beginning (1981)
  • The Subatomic Monster (1981)
  • The Sun Shines Bright (1981)
  • Venus (1981)
  • Visions of the Universe (1981)
  • Exploring the Earth And the Cosmos: The Growth and Future of Human Knowledge (1982)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz (1982)
  • More, Would You Believe? (1982)
  • Counting the Eons (1983)
  • Frontiers of Science (1983)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz 2 (1983)
  • Measure of the Universe (1983)
  • The Roving Mind (1983)
  • I. Asimov: A Memoir (1984)
  • Opus 300 (1984)
  • X Stands for Unknown (1984)
  • Living in the Future (1985)
  • Robots: Machines in Man's Image (1985) (with Karen Frenkel)
  • Ancient astronomy (1986)
  • The Dangers of intelligence: And other essays (1986)
  • Beginnings: The Story of Origins, of Mankind, Life, the Earth, the Universe (1987)
  • Far As Human Eye Could See: Essays on Science (1987)
  • How to Enjoy Writing: A Book of Aid and Comfort (1987)
  • Isaac Asimov presents superquiz 3 (1987)
  • Past, Present and Future (1987)
  • The Earth's Moon (1988)
  • Earth: Our Home Base (1988)
  • Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988)
  • Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space (1988)
  • Mars: Our Mysterious Neighbor (1988)
  • Our Solar System (1988)
  • The Relativity of Wrong (1988)
  • Rockets, Probes, and Satellites (1988)
  • The Space Spotter's Guide (1988)
  • Uranus: The sideways planet (1988)
  • Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery (1989)
  • Asimov's Galaxy: Reflections on Science Fiction (1989)
  • Astronomy Today (1989)
  • The Birth and Death of Stars (1989)
  • Colonizing the Planets And Stars (1989)
  • The Complete Science Fair Handbook (1989)
  • Is There Life On Other Planets? (1989)
  • Isaac Asimov presents superquiz 4 (1989)
  • Jupiter: the Spotted Giant (1989)
  • Mercury: the Quick Planet (1989)
  • Piloted Space Flights (1989)
  • Pluto: A double planet? (1989)
  • Science Fiction, Science Fact (1989)
  • Space Garbage (1989)
  • Think about Space: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? (1989)
  • The March of the Millennia: A Key to Looking at History (1990)
  • Neptune: the Farthest Giant (1990)
  • Out of the Everywhere (1990)
  • Projects in Astronomy (1990)
  • The Secret of the Universe: Revelations in Science (1990)
  • The World's Space Programs (1990)
  • Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991)
  • Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos (1991)
  • Christopher Columbus: Navigator to the new world (1991)
  • Ferdinand Magellan: Opening the Door to World Exploration (1991)
  • Henry Hudson: Arctic Explorer and North American Adventurer (1991) (with Elizabeth Kaplan)
  • Our Angry Earth (1991) (with Frederik Pohl)
  • What Is a Shooting Star? (1991)
  • What Is an Eclipse? (1991)
  • Where Does Garbage Go? (1991)
  • Why Are Whales Vanishing? (1991)
  • Why Do Stars Twinkle? (1991)
  • Why Do We Have Different Seasons? (1991)
  • Why Does the Moon Change Shape? (1991)
  • How Does a TV Work? (1992)
  • Is Our Planet Warming Up? (1992)
  • What Causes Acid Rain? (1992)
  • Why Are Animals Endangered? (1992)
  • Why Are Some Beaches Oily? (1992)
  • Why Are the Rain Forests Vanishing? (1992)
  • Why Does Litter Cause Problems? (1992)
  • Why Is the Air Dirty? (1992)
  • How Do Big Ships Float? (1993)
  • What's Happening to the Ozone Layer? (1993)
  • Death from Space: What Killed the Dinosaurs (1994)
  • How Do Aeroplanes Fly? (1994)
  • Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters (1995)
  • History of I-Botics (1997)
  • Asimov's Dictionary of Scientific Terms (1999)
  • It's Been a Good Life (2002) (with Janet Asimov)


Anthologies containing stories by Isaac Asimov

  • The Ghost Book (1926)
  • The Silver Ship (1932)
  • The 2nd Ghost Book (1952)
  • From Other Worlds (1952)
  • Time to Come (1954)
  • The 3rd Ghost Book (1955)
  • The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 4th Series (1955)
  • The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 5th Series (1956)
  • Best SF 2 (1956)
  • The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 7th Series (1958)
  • Out of This World 10 (1959)
  • Three from Out There (1959)
  • A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1960)
  • The Fantastic Universe Omnibus (1960)
  • Out of This World 3 (1962)
  • Spectrum 2 (1962)
  • 17 x Infinity (1963)
  • Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales (1963)
  • Venture Science Fiction 1 (1963)
  • The Best Science Fiction Stories 3 (1964)
  • Connoisseur's S.F. (1964)
  • New Writings in SF 4 (1965)
  • The Pseudo-People (1965)
  • The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 15th Series (1966)
  • Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
  • The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 185 (1966)
  • Tomorrow's Children (1966)
  • Time Untamed (1967)
  • The Future Makers (1968)
  • Science Fiction Horizons No. 1 (1968)
  • The Stars and Under (1968)
  • World's Best Science Fiction 1968 (1968)
  • 14 Great Tales of ESP (1969)
  • Other Worlds, Other Times (1969)
  • The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 (1969)
  • Best SF 7 (1970)
  • Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 1 (1970)
  • 3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1972)
  • The Other Dimension (1972)
  • The Edge of Never (1973)
  • The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology (1973)
  • The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973)
  • Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2B (1973)
  • Before the Golden Age Volume 4 (1974)
  • Final Stage (1974)
  • Modern Science Fiction (1974)
  • Space Opera (1974)
  • The Best from If, Volume III (1976)
  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 (1977)
  • The Best Science Fiction Stories (1977)
  • Exiles (1977)
  • To Follow a Star (1977)
  • Classic Science Fiction (1978)
  • Nebula Winners 12 (1978)
  • One Hundred Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978)
  • Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year 1978 (1979)
  • The End of Summer: Science Fiction of the Fifties (1979)
  • The Great SF Stories One: 1939 (1979)
  • The Great SF Stories Two: 1940 (1979)
  • More Tales of Unknown Horror (1979)
  • The Science Fictional Solar System (1979)
  • The Great SF Stories 3: 1941 (1980)
  • The Great SF Stories 4: 1942 (1980)
  • Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year 1980 (1981)
  • A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 (1981)
  • The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981)
  • The Great SF Stories 7: 1945 (1982)
  • The Great SF Stories 8: 1946 (1982)
  • The Great SF Stories 9: 1947 (1983)
  • Election Day 2084: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Politics (1984)
  • The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984)
  • Random Access Messages of the Computer Age (1984)
  • Sci-Fi Private Eye (1984)
  • Top Science Fiction (1984)
  • The Great SF Stories 13: 1951 (1985)
  • Terrorists of Tomorrow (1985)
  • A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985)
  • Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987)
  • Nebula Awards 22 (1987)
  • Robots: Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction Volume 9 (1988)
  • The Great SF Stories 19: 1957 (1989)
  • The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940s (1989)
  • Between Time and Terror (1990)
  • The Night Fantastic (1991)
  • Inside the Funhouse: 17 SF Stories About SF (1992)
  • Aliens and UFO's: Extraterrestrial Tales from Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1993)
  • First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors (1993)
  • Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite (1993)
  • Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1993)
  • The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
  • Fantasy Stories (1994)
  • Dinosaurs (1995)
  • Dinosaurs II (1995)
  • Science Fiction, Science Fact, and You (1995)
  • Tales of the Batman (1995)
  • The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 2 (1996)
  • UFOs: The Greatest Stories (1996)
  • The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy (1996)
  • Ackermanthology (1997)
  • Isaac Asimov's Christmas (1997)
  • The New Hugo Winners Volume IV (1997)
  • Time Machines: The Best Time Travel Stories Ever Written (1997)
  • Don't Open This Book! (1998)
  • Future on Ice (1998)
  • Bangs And Whimpers: Stories About the End of the World (1999)
  • Vintage Science Fiction (1999)

Short stories

  • Behind the Scenes
A Case of Need   
The Disappearing Man   
Dreamworld   
The Dust of Death   
The Key Word   
Living Space   
One Grave Too Few   
Santa Claus Gets a Coin   
Sarah Tops   
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas   
Who is Sylvia?   
Marooned Off Vesta (1939)
  • Trends (1939)
  • The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use (1939)
  • The Callistan Menace (1940)
  • Half-Breed (1940)
  • The Magnificent Possession (1940)
  • Ring Around the Sun (1940)
  • Robbie (1940)
    aka Strange Playfellow   
Strange Playfellow (1940)
    aka Robbie   
The Tweenie (1940)
  • Big Game (1941)
  • Liar! (1941)
  • Nightfall (1941)
  • Reason (1941)
  • Robot AL-76 Goes Astray (1941)
  • The Secret Sense (1941)
  • Black Friar of the Flame (1942)
  • Christmas on Ganymede (1942)
  • Foundation (1942)
  • Runaround (1942)
  • Victory Unintentional (1942)
  • Death Sentence (1943)
  • The Big and the Little (1944)
  • Catch That Rabbit (1944)
  • Blind Alley (1945)
  • Escape! (1945)
  • Evidence (1946)
  • Little Lost Robot (1947)
  • The Endochronic Properties of Resubliminated Thiotimoline (1948)
  • No Connection (1948)
  • Mother Earth (1949)
  • The Red Queen's Race (1949)
  • Darwinian Pool Room (1950)
  • Day of the Hunters (1950)
  • The Evitable Conflict (1950)
  • Green Patches (1950)
    aka Misbegotten Missionary   
Legal Rites (1950) (with Frederik Pohl)
  • The Little Man on the Subway (1950) (with James MacCreigh (Frederik Pohl))
  • Satisfaction Guaranteed (1950)
  • 'Breeds There a Man...?' (1951)
  • The C-Chute (1951)
  • The Fun They Had (1951)
  • Hostess (1951)
  • "In a Good Cause" (1951)
  • The Deep (1952)
  • The Martian Way (1952)
  • What If... (1952)
  • Youth (1952)
  • Belief (1953)
  • Flies (1953)
  • The Monkey's Finger (1953)
  • Nobody Here But (1953)
  • Sally (1953)
  • The Foundation of Science Fiction Success (1954)
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day (1954)
  • The Pause (1954)
  • Dreaming Is a Private Thing (1955)
  • Franchise (1955)
  • Risk (1955)
  • The Singing Bell (1955)
  • First Law (1956)
  • Hell-Fire (1956)
  • Jokester (1956)
  • The Last Question (1956)
  • Strikebreaker (1956)
  • Does a Bee Care? (1957)
  • Galley Slave (1957)
  • Insert Knob A in Hole B (1957)
  • Let's Get Together (1957)
  • A Loint of Paw (1957)
  • Profession (1957)
  • The Feeling of Power (1958)
  • I Just Make Them Up, See! (1958)
  • Lenny (1958)
  • The Ugly Little Boy (1958)
    aka Lastborn   
The Up-to-Date Sorcerer (1958)
  • Obituary (1959)
  • Rejection Slips (1959)
  • Unto the Fourth Generation (1959)
  • Thiotimoline and the Space Age (1960)
  • The Machine That Won the War (1961)
  • Playboy and the Slime God (1961)
  • What Is This Thing Called Love? (1961)
  • My Son, the Physicist! (1962)
  • Star Light (1962)
  • T-Formation (1963)
  • Author! Author! (1964)
  • Eyes Do More Than See (1964) Nebula (nominee)
  • Founding Father (1965) Nebula (nominee)
  • The Key (1966)
  • The Billiard Ball (1967)
  • Segregationist (1967)
  • Exile to Hell (1968)
  • Feminine Intuition (1969)
  • A Problem of Numbers (1970)
    aka As Chemist to Chemist   
Waterclap (1970)
  • Mirror Image (1972)
  • Light Verse (1973)
  • Thiotimoline to the Stars (1973)
  • Half-Baked Publisher's Delight (1974) (with Jeffrey S Hudson)
  • That Thou Art Mindful of Him! (1974) Hugo (nominee)
  • Earthset and Evening Star (1975)
  • The Life and Times of Multivac (1975)
  • The Bicentennial Man (1976) Nebula
  • Sure Thing (1977)
  • True Love (1977)
  • Found! (1978)
  • Nothing for Nothing (1979)
  • For the Birds (1980)
  • The Last Answer (1980)
  • Ignition Point! (1981)
  • Lest We Remember (1982)
  • Saving Humanity (1983)
  • Neither Brute Nor Human (1984)
  • The Fourth Homonym (1985)
  • Hallucination (1985)
  • The Eye of the Beholder (1986)
  • Feghoot and the Courts (1986)
  • Robot Dreams (1986) Nebula (nominee)

Hugo (nominee)

  • The Fable of the Three Princes (1987)
  • Left to Right (1987)
  • Christmas Without Rodney (1988)
  • I Love Little Pussy (1988)
  • The Quiet Place (1988)
  • The Smile of the Chipper (1988)
  • Good-bye to Earth (1989)
  • The Instability (1989)
  • The Mad Scientist (1989)
  • Northwestward (1989)
  • To Your Health (1989)
  • Cal (1990)
  • Fault-Intolerant (1990)
  • In the Canyon (1990)
  • Kid Brother (1990)
  • The Time Traveler (1990)
  • Wine Is a Mocker (1990)
  • Baby, It's Cold Outside (1991)
  • Frustration (1991)
  • Gold (1991)
  • It's a Job (1991)
  • Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon (1991)
  • The Critic on the Hearth (1992)
  • March Against the Foe (1994)
  • Alexander the God (1995)
  • Battle-Hymn (1995)
  • The Nations in Space (1995)
  • The Corner Shop (writing as C L Ray)
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