The Stars, Like Dust
January–March 1951, serialised in Galaxy Science Fiction
< First edition, 1951
Doubleday
Hardcover, 218 pages
$2.50
Notes:
• 'Trantorian Empire' series #2.
Исаак Азимов | Isaac Asimov
Legal name: Исаак Азимов
Transliterated name: Asimov, Isaac
Birth place: Petrovichi, Smolensk, Russia
Birth date: 2 January 1920
Death date: 6 April 1992
Language: English
Bibliographic comments: See also under Non-fiction. Only Asimov’s fiction and autobiographical writings are listed here, in
chronological order of publication. Also as by Paul French.
Biographic comments: Became a US citizen in 1928.
Novels
Pebble in the Sky
1950
< First edition, 19 January 1950
Doubleday
Hardcover, 223 pages
$2.50
Notes:
• 'Trantorian Empire' series #1.
Collections
Foundation
1951
< First edition, 30 August 1951
Gnome Press
Hardcover, 255 pages
$2.75
Notes:
• 'Foundation' series #1.
Fiction: The Psychohistorians // The Encyclopedists // The Mayors // The Traders // The Merchant Princes
Foundation and Empire
1952
< First edition, 1952
Gnome Press
Hardcover, 247 pages
$2.75
Notes:
• 'Foundation' series #2.
Fiction: The General // The Mule
Second Foundation
1953
< First edition, 15 May 1953
Gnome Press
Hardcover, x+210 pages
$2.75
Notes:
• 'Foundation' series #3.
Fiction: Search by the Mule // Search by the Foundation
I, Robot
1950
< First edition, 1950
Gnome Press
Hardcover, 253 pages
$2.50
Notes:
• 'Positronic Robot' series.
Fiction: Catch That Rabbit // Escape! // Evidence // Introduction // Liar! // Little Lost Robot // Reason // Robbie
// Runaround // The Evitable Conflict
The Currents of Space
1952
< First edition, 1952
Doubleday
Hardcover, 217 pages
$2.75
Notes:
• 'Trantorian Empire' series #3.
David Starr: Space Ranger
1952
< First edition, February 1952
Doubleday
Hardcover, 186 pages
$2.50
Notes:
• 'Lucky Starr' series #1, originally as by Paul French.
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids
1953
< First edition, November 1953
Doubleday
Hardcover, 188 pages
$2.50
Notes:
• 'Lucky Starr' series #2, originally as by Paul French.
Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus
1954
< First edition, 1954
Doubleday
Hardcover, 186 pages
$2.50
Notes:
• 'Lucky Starr' series #3, originally as by Paul French (published out of sequence as #4 in the first NEL editions).
Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury
1956
< First edition, 1956
Doubleday
Hardcover, 191 pages
$2.50
Notes:
• 'Lucky Starr' series #4, originally as by Paul French (published out of sequence as #3 in the first NEL editions).
Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter
1957
< First edition, 1957
Doubleday
Hardcover, 192 pages
$2.75
Notes:
• 'Lucky Starr' series #5, originally as by Paul French (published out of sequence as #6 in the first NEL editions).
Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn
1958
< First edition, September 1958
Doubleday
Hardcover, 179 pages
$2.75
Notes:
• 'Lucky Starr' series #6, originally as by Paul French (published out of sequence as #5 in the first NEL editions).
The End of Eternity
1955
< First edition, 25 August 1955
Doubleday
Hardcover, 191 pages
$2.95
Notes:
The Gods Themselves
March–May 1972, serialised in Galaxy Magazine
< First edition, May 1972
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-02701-X
Hardcover, 288 pages
$5.95
Notes:
• Winner of the 1972 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1973 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Foundation’s Edge
1982
< First edition, September 1982
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-17725-9
Hardcover, xi+367 pages
£8.99
Notes:
• 'Foundation' series #4.
• Afterword by Isaac Asimov.
• Winner of the 1983 Locus Award and 1983 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Foundation and Earth
1986
< First edition, 3 October 1986
Doubleday & Company
ISBN 0-385-23312-4
Trade paperback, 356 pages
$16.95
Notes:
• 'Foundation' series #5.
• Essay 'The Story Behind the Foundation' by Isaac Asimov.
The Complete Robot
1982
< First edition, 9 April 1982
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-17724-0
Hardcover, xiv+557 pages
$19.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
• 'Positronic Robot' series.
Fiction: A Boy's Best Friend // Sally // Someday // Point of View // Think! // True Love // Robot AL-76 Goes
Astray // Victory Unintentional // Stranger in Paradise // Light Verse // Segregationist // Robbie // Let's Get
Together // Mirror Image // The Tercentenary Incident // First Law // Runaround // Reason // Catch That Rabbit
// Liar! // Satisfaction Guaranteed // Lenny // Galley Slave // Little Lost Robot // Risk // Escape! // Evidence //
The Evitable Conflict // Feminine Intuition // ...That Thou Art Mindful of Him // The Bicentennial Man
Essays: Some Non-Human Robots // Some Immobile Robots // Some Metallic Robots // Some Humanoid Robots
// Powell and Donovan // Susan Calvin // Two Climaxes // A Last Word
Eight Stories from The Rest of the Robots / The Rest of the Robots
1966
< First edition, January 1966
Pyramid Books
Paperback, 159 pages
50¢
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
• 'Positronic Robot' series.
• Re-issue of the omnibus The Rest of the Robots without the two novels, re-titled The Rest of the Robots in 1968.
Fiction: First Law // Galley Slave // Lenny // Let's Get Together // Risk // Robot AL-76 Goes Astray // Satisfaction
Guaranteed // Victory Unintentional
The Caves of Steel
October–December 1953, serialised in Galaxy Science Fiction
< First edition, February 1954
Doubleday
Hardcover, 224 pages
$2.95
Notes:
• 'Positronic Robot' / 'Elijah Bailey/R. Daneel Olivaw' series #1.
The Naked Sun
October–December 1956, serialised in Astounding Science Fiction
< First edition, January 1957
Doubleday
Hardcover, 187 pages
$2.95
Notes:
• 'Positronic Robot' / 'Elijah Bailey/R. Daneel Olivaw' series #2.
The Robots of Dawn
1983
< First edition, October 1983
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-18400-X
Hardcover, 419 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• 'Positronic Robot' / 'Elijah Bailey/R. Daneel Olivaw' series #3.
Robots and Empire
1985
< First edition, September 1985
Doubleday & Company
ISBN 0-385-19092-1
Hardcover, 383 pages
$16.95
Notes:
• 'Positronic Robot' / 'Elijah Bailey/R. Daneel Olivaw' series #4.
Azazel
1988
< First edition, November 1988
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-24410-X
Hardcover, xiii+221 pages
$16.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: 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
Fantastic Voyage
1966
< First edition, March 1966
Houghton Mifflin
Hardcover, 239 pages
$3.95
Notes:
• 'Fantastic Voyage' series #1.
• Novelisation of the film, based on a screenplay by Harry Kleiner from the original story by Otto Klement and Jay
Lewis Bixby.
Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain
1987
< First edition, September 1987
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-23926-2
Hardcover, 332 pages
$18.95
Notes:
• 'Fantastic Voyage' series #2.
Norby the Mixed-Up Robot
with Janet Asimov
1983
< First edition, September 1983
Walker & Co.
ISBN 0-8027-6495-9
Hardcover, 96 pages
$9.95
Notes:
• 'Norby Chronicles' series #1.
Norby’s Other Secret
with Janet Asimov
1984
< First edition, May 1984
Walker & Co.
ISBN 0-8027-6525-4
Hardcover, 138 pages
$10.95
Notes:
• 'Norby Chronicles' series #2.
Norby and the Lost Princess
with Janet Asimov
1985
< First edition, May 1985
Walker & Co.
ISBN 0-8027-6583-1
Hardcover, 129 pages
$10.95
Notes:
• 'Norby Chronicles' series #3.
Norby and the Invaders
with Janet Asimov
1985
< First edition, November 1985
Walker & Co.
ISBN 0-8027-6599-8
Hardcover, 138 pages
$10.95
Notes:
• 'Norby Chronicles' series #4.
Norby and the Queen’s Necklace
with Janet Asimov
1986
< First edition, December 1986
Walker & Co.
ISBN 0-8027-6659-5
Hardcover, 144 pages
$11.95
Notes:
• 'Norby Chronicles' series #5.
Norby Finds a Villain
with Janet Asimov
1987
< First edition, September 1987
Walker & Co.
ISBN 0-8027-6710-9
Hardcover, 102 pages
$12.95
Notes:
• 'Norby Chronicles' series #6.
Norby Down to Earth
with Janet Asimov
1989
< First edition, February 1989
Walker & Co.
ISBN 0-8027-6866-0
Hardcover, 107 pages
$12.95
Notes:
• 'Norby Chronicles' series #7.
Norby and Yobo’s Great Adventure
with Janet Asimov
1989
< First edition, September 1989
Walker & Co.
ISBN 0-8027-6893-8
Hardcover, 100 pages
$12.95
Notes:
• 'Norby Chronicles' series #8.
Norby and the Oldest Dragon
with Janet Asimov
1990
< First edition, May 1990
Walker & Co.
ISBN 0-8027-6909-8
Hardcover, 110 pages
$14.95
Notes:
• 'Norby Chronicles' series #9.
Norby and the Court Jester
with Janet Asimov
1991
< First edition, November 1991
Walker & Co.
ISBN 0-8027-8131-4
Hardcover, 118 pages
$14.95
Notes:
• 'Norby Chronicles' series #10.
• The final novel in the series, Norby and the Terrified Taxi ( #11), was authored by Janet Asimov only.
Non-fiction
Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters
1995
< First edition, 1995
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-47622-1
Hardcover, 332 pages
$24.95
Notes:
• Edited by Stanley Asimov.
It’s Been a Good Life
with Janet Asimov
2002
< First edition, March 2002
Prometheus Books
ISBN 1-57392-968-9
Hardcover, 309 pages
No cover price
Notes:
• Edited by Janet Jeppson Asimov.
• 'The Last Question' is included as Asimov's personal favourite story.
Fiction: The Last Question
I. Asimov: A Memoir
1994
< 1995 edition, 4th printing
Bantam Spectra
ISBN 0-553-56997-X
Paperback, xii+578 pages
$7.99 / C$11.99
Notes:
• Edited by Stanley Asimov.
The Complete Stories: Volume 1
1990
< First edition, November 1990
Doubleday Foundation
ISBN 0-385-41606-7
Hardcover, viii+614 pages
$22.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: 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 // 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 // Nightfall // Green Patches // Hostess // Breeds There a
Man...? // The C-Chute // "In a Good Cause—" // What If... // Sally // Flies // "Nobody Here But—" // It's Such a
Beautiful Day // 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
Poetry: The Foundation of S. F. Success // The Author's Ordeal // I Just Make Them Up, See! // Rejection Slips
The Complete Stories: Volume 2 [UK]
1994
< First edition, January 1994
HarperCollins
ISBN 0-00-224150-1
Hardcover, 550 pages
£16.99
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: Not Final! // The Hazing // Death Sentence // Blind Alley // Evidence // The Red Queen's Race // Day of
the Hunters // The Deep // The Martian Way // The Monkey's Finger // The Singing Bell // The Talking Stone //
Each an Explorer // Let's Get Together // Pâté de Foie Gras // Galley Slave // Lenny // A Loint of Paw // A Statue
for Father // Anniversary // Obituary // Rain, Rain, Go Away // Star Light // Founding Father // The Key // The
Billiard Ball // Exile to Hell // Key Item // Feminine Intuition // The Greatest Asset // Mirror Image // Take a Match
// Light Verse // Stranger in Paradise // That Thou Art Mindful of Him // The Life and Times of Multivac // The
Bicentennial Man // Marching In // Old-Fashioned // The Tercentenary Incident
Goodreads
Nemesis
1989
< First edition, October 1989
Doubleday Foundation
ISBN 0-385-24792-3
Hardcover, [16]+364 pages
$18.95
Notes:
• Author's Note by Isaac Asimov.
Nightfall
with Robert Silverberg
1990
< First edition, June 1990
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-04698-8
Hardcover, 352 pages
£13.95
Notes:
• Expanded from Asimov's short story 'Nightfall'.
• Essay 'To the Reader' by Isaac Asimov.
Child of Time
with Robert Silverberg
1991
< First edition, August 1991
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-04699-6
Hardcover, 302 pages
£14.99
Notes:
• Expanded from Asimov's short story 'Lastborn / The Ugly Little Boy'.
In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920–1954
1972
< First edition, February 1972
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-13679-X
Hardcover, ix+732 pages
$15.95
Notes:
In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954–1978
1980
< First edition, April 1980
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-15544-1
Hardcover, x+828 pages
$19.95
Notes:
• Winner of the 1981 Locus Award for Best Related Non-fiction.
Omnibus editions
The Rest of the Robots
1964
< First edition, November 1964
Doubleday
Hardcover, xiii+556 pages
$5.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
• 'Positronic Robot' series.
• The eight short fiction works in this omnibus were published separately in 1966 as Eight Stories from The Rest of
the Robots. That collection was later re-titled as The Rest of the Robots but did not restore the two novels.
Fiction: The Caves of Steel (1953) // The Naked Sun (1956) // First Law // Galley Slave // Lenny // Let's Get
Together // Risk // Robot AL-76 Goes Astray // Satisfaction Guaranteed // Victory Unintentional
Opus 100
1969
< First edition, 16 October 1969
Houghton Mifflin
Hardcover, xv+318 pages
$5.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: Robbie // Excerpt from The Callistan Menace // Excerpt from Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter //
Excerpt from Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus // Excerpt from The Martian Way // Excerpt from Strange
Playfellow // Excerpt from Liar!' // Excerpt from Runaround // Excerpt from I, Robot // The Last Question // The
Feeling of Power // Excerpt from Superneutron // Thiotimoline and the Space Age // Excerpt from The Dead Hand
// Dreamworld // The Holmes-Ginsbook Device
Essays: Galileo // Excerpt from View from Amalthea // Excerpt from The Universe // Excerpt from Galaxies //
Excerpt from The Perfect Machine // Excerpt from The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science // Excerpt from Realm of
Numbers // Excerpt from Quick and Easy Math // Excerpt from Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science //
Excerpt from Only a Trillion // Excerpt from The Neutrino // Excerpt from The Sound of Panting // Excerpt from
Biochemistry and Human Metabolism // Excerpt from The Chemicals of Life // Excerpt from The Noble Gasses //
Excerpt from The Wellsprings of Life // Excerpt from The Kinetics of the Reaction Inactivation of Tyrosinase during its
Catalysis of the Aerobic Oxidation of Catechol // Excerpt from Photosynthesis // Excerpt from Words of Science //
Excerpt from Words on the Map // Excerpt from Words from History // Excerpt from The Greeks // Excerpt from The
Roman Republic // Excerpt from The Egyptians // Excerpt from The Near East // Excerpt from There's Nothing Like
a Good Foundation // Excerpt from Asimov's Guide to the Bible // Twelve Point Three Six Nine // Excerpt from Isaac
Asimov Explains (Force Fields) // Excerpt from Isaac Asimov Explains (Irresistible Force) // On Prediction // An
Uncompromising View // Appendix: My Hundred Books
The Martian Way and Other Stories
1955
< First edition, 1955
Doubleday
Hardcover, 222 pages
$3.95
Notes:
Fiction: The Martian Way // Youth // The Deep // Sucker Bait
Earth Is Room Enough
1957
< First edition, 10 October 1957
Doubleday
Hardcover, 192 pages
$2.95
Notes:
Fiction: 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
Poetry: The Foundation of S. F. Success // The Author's Ordeal
Nine Tomorrows
1959
< First edition, February 1959
Doubleday
Hardcover, 236 pages
$3.50
Notes:
Fiction: The Ugly Little Boy // The Last Question // The Feeling of Power // Profession // All the Troubles of the
World // The Dying Night // The Gentle Vultures // I'm in Marsport Without Hilda // Spell My Name with an S //
Rejection Slips
Poetry: I Just Make Them Up, See!
Through a Glass, Clearly
1967
< First edition, April 1967
Four Square Books
Catalogue ID: 1866
Paperback, 124 pages
3/6 and others
Notes:
Fiction: Belief // Breeds There a Man...? // It's Such a Beautiful Day // The C-Chute
Asimov’s Mysteries
1968
< First edition, 1968
Doubleday
Hardcover, xi+228 pages
$4.50
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: The Singing Bell // The Talking Stone // What's in a Name // The Dying Night // Pâté de Foie Gras // The
Dust of Death // A Loint of Paw // I'm in Marsport Without Hilda // Marooned Off Vesta // Anniversary // Obituary
// Star Light // The Key // The Billiard Ball
Nightfall and Other Stories
1969
< First edition, 1969
Doubleday
Hardcover, xi+228 pages
$4.50
Notes:
• Split into two titles Nightfall One and Nightfall Two for UK publication.
Fiction: What Is This Thing Called Love? // Strikebreaker // Sally // Nightfall // Segregationist // Eyes Do More
Than See // Green Patches // Hostess // Breeds There a Man...? // Flies // The Up-to-Date Sorcerer // Unto the
Fourth Generation // The Machine That Won the War // My Son, the Physicist! // It's Such a Beautiful Day // Insert
Knob A in Hole B // "In a Good Cause—" // What If— // The C-Chute // "Nobody Here But—"
The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying
1972
< First edition, September 1972
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-03979-4
Hardcover, viii+540 pages
$10.00
Notes:
• Split into three titles The Early Asimov Volume 1, The Early Asimov Volume 2 and The Early Asimov Volume 3 for
UK publication.
• Essays 'Biographical Comments' and 'Appendix: The Sixty Stories of the Campbell Years' by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: 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 // Mother
Earth
Have You Seen These?
1974
< First edition, 1 March 1974
NESFA Press
ISBN 0-385-03979-4
Hardcover, 94 pages
$5.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: Day of the Hunters // Shah Guido G. // The Monkey's Fingers // Everest // The Pause // Blank! // Silly
Asses // Rain, Rain, Go Away
Goodreads
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
1975
< First edition, September 1975
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-05077-1
Hardcover, 206 pages
$5.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: 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
The Dream, Benjamin’s Dream and Benjamin’s Bicentennial Blast
1975
< First edition, 17 January 1976
Printer’s Union of New York
No ISBN
Hardcover, 51 pages
No cover price
Notes:
• Foreword by Charles V. Morris.
• Illustrated by John DePol.
Fiction: The Dream // Benjamin's Dream // Benjamin's Bicentennial Blast
Goodreads
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
1976
< First edition, August 1976
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-12198-9
Hardcover, 211 pages
$6.95
Notes:
Fiction: 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
Poetry: The Prime of Life
Goodreads
The Best of Isaac Asimov
1973
< First edition, March 1973
Sphere
ISBN 0-7221-1254-8
Paperback, 336 pages
£0.40
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: Marooned Off Vesta // Nightfall // The C-Chute // The Martian Way // The Deep // The Fun They Had //
The Last Question // The Dead Past // The Dying Night // Anniversary // The Billiard Ball // Mirror Image
The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
1986
< First edition, August 1986
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-19782-9
Hardcover, xiv+320 pages
$17.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: All the Troubles of the World // A Loint of Paw // The Dead Past // Death of a Foy // Dreaming Is a Private
Thing // Dreamworld // Eyes Do More Than See // The Feeling of Power // Flies // Found! // The Foundation of
Science Fiction Success // Franchise // The Fun They Had // How It Happened // I Just Make Them Up, See! //
I'm in Marsport Without Hilda // The Immortal Bard // It's Such a Beautiful Day // Jokester // The Last Answer //
The Last Question // My Son, the Physicist! // Obituary // Spell My Name with an S // Strikebreaker // Sure Thing
// The Ugly Little Boy // Unto the Fourth Generation
Opus 200
1979
< First edition, March 1979
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 0-395-27625-X
Hardcover, xiii+329 pages
$10.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: Excerpt from The Gods Themselves // The Bicentennial Man // Good Taste // The Dream // Light Verse //
Earthset and Evening Star // The Thirteenth Day of Christmas // Excerpt from Murder at the ABA //
Essays: Excerpt from ABC's of Space // Excerpt from How Did We Find Out About Comets? // Excerpt from Comets
and Meteors // Excerpt from Alpha Centauri, the Nearest Star // Excerpt from The Collapsing Universe // Excerpt
from How Did We Find Out About Numbers? // Skewered! // Excerpt from Light // Excerpt from Please Explain //
Excerpt from Worlds Within Worlds // Excerpt from How Did We Find Out About Germs? // Excerpt from The Ends of
the Earth // Excerpt from More Words of Science // Excerpt from The Land of Canaan // Excerpt from The Shaping
of France // Excerpt from The Golden Door // Excerpt from Eyes on the Universe // Lost in Non-Translation // The
Monsters We Have Lived With // Excerpt from Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor // Excerpt from The Sensuous Dirty
Old Man // Excerpt from Earth: Our Crowded Spaceship // Excerpt from Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare // Excerpt
from Asimov's Annotated "Don Juan" // Excerpt from Asimov's Annotated "Paradise Lost" // Excerpt from Familiar
Poems Annotated // Excerpt from The Tales of the Black Widowers // Excerpt from Before the Golden Age // Little
Brothers // My Second Hundred Books
Poetry: Well, Hardly Ever // Impatience // Shutting the Barn Door // You Mean // Reasons Enough // Emily Post //
Excerpt from Asimov's Sherlockian Limericks
3 by Asimov: Three Science Fiction Tales
1981
< First edition, 1981
Targ Editions
No ISBN
Hardcover, 18 pages
No cover price
Notes:
• Limited edition of 250 signed copies.
Fiction: True Love // The Last Answer // Fair Exchange?
Goodreads
The Winds of Change and Other Stories
1983
< First edition, 18 March 1983
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-18099-3
Hardcover, xiii+269 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov; each story also has an individual short introduction.
Fiction: About Nothing // A Perfect Fit // Belief // 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 Edge of Tomorrow
1985
< First edition, July 1985
Tor
ISBN 0-312-93200-6
Hardcover, xiv+462 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Foreword by Ben Bova, Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: Unique Is Where You Find It // The Feeling of Power // Found! // Pâté de Foie Gras // Belief // The Billiard
Ball // The Winds of Change // The Dead Past // Breeds There a Man? // Nightfall // The Ugly Little Boy // The
Last Question
Essays: The Eureka Phenomenon // The Comet That Wasn't // Twinkle, Twinkle, Microwaves // The Bridge of the
Gods // Euclid's Fifth // The Plane Truth // The Figure of the Fastest // The Fateful Lightning // The Man Who
Massed the Earth // The Planet That Wasn't // The Three Who Died Too Soon // The Nobel Prize That Wasn't
Science Fiction by Asimov
1986
< First edition, 1986
Davis Publications
No ISBN
Digest, 62 pages
No cover price
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
• Distributed free to new subscribers of Asimov's SF Magazine.
• Illustrated by Hank Janus.
Fiction: More Things in Heaven and Earth // Death of a Foy // Dashing Through the Snow // Potential // Eyes Do
More Than See // The Dim Rumble
Poetry: Rejection Slips
Opus 300
1984
< First edition, December 1984
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 0-395-36108-7
Hardcover, xv+377 pages
$18.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: Undetermined
Essays: Undetermined
The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov
1989
< First edition, May 1989
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-24410-X
Hardcover, xiii+221 pages
$16.95
Notes:
• Edited by Martin H. Greenberg.
• Illustrated by Ron Lindahn and Val Lakey Lindahn.
Fiction: Marooned Off Vesta // Robbie // Nightfall // Runaround // Death Sentence // Catch That Rabbit // Blind
Alley // Evidence // Little Lost Robot // No Connection // The Red Queen's Race // Green Patches // Breeds
There a Man...? // The Martian Way // Sally // The Fun They Had // Franchise // The Last Question // Profession
// The Ugly Little Boy // Unto the Fourth Generation // Thiotimoline and the Space Age // The Machine That Won
the War // My Son, the Physicist! // Author! Author! // Eyes Do More Than See // The Key // The Billiard Ball //
Exile to Hell // Feminine Intuition // A Problem of Numbers // Mirror Image // Light Verse // —That Thou Art
Mindful of Him!? // Earthset and Evening Star // The Bicentennial Man // True Love // Found! // Nothing for
Nothing // For the Birds // Ignition Point! // Lest We Remember // Saving Humanity // Neither Brute Nor Human
// The Fourth Homonym // The Eye of the Beholder // The Quiet Place // I Love Little Pussy
Essays: T-Formation // Bill and I
The Alternate Asimovs
1986
< First edition, 3 January 1986
Doubleday
ISBN 0-385-19784-5
Hardcover, xii+272 pages
$16.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: Grow Old Along with Me (novel) // The End of Eternity (novel) // Belief (first version) // Belief
Essays: Foreword (Grow Old Along with Me) // Foreword (The End of Eternity original version) // Foreword (Belief
(first version)) // Foreword (Belief published version)
Robot Dreams
1986
< First edition, November 1986
Berkley Books
ISBN 0-425-09346-8
Hardcover, 349 pages
$50.00
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
• Illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie.
Fiction: Little Lost Robot // Robot Dreams // Breeds There a Man...? // Hostess // Sally // Strikebreaker // The
Machine That Won the War // Eyes Do More Than See // The Martian Way // Franchise // Jokester // The Last
Question // Does a Bee Care? // Light Verse // The Feeling of Power // Spell My Name with an S // The Ugly Little
Boy // The Billiard Ball // True Love // The Last Answer // Lest We Remember
The Complete Stories: Volume 2
1992
< First edition, February 1992
Doubleday Foundation
ISBN 0-385-42078-1
Trade paperback, ix+550 pages
$14.00
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
Fiction: Not Final! // The Hazing // Death Sentence // Blind Alley // Evidence // The Red Queen's Race // Day of
the Hunters // The Deep // The Martian Way // The Monkey's Finger // The Singing Bell // The Talking Stone //
Each an Explorer // Let's Get Together // Pâté de Foie Gras // Galley Slave // Lenny // A Loint of Paw // A Statue
for Father // Anniversary // Obituary // Rain, Rain, Go Away // Star Light // Founding Father // The Key // The
Billiard Ball // Exile to Hell // Key Item // Feminine Intuition // The Greatest Asset // Mirror Image // Take a Match
// Light Verse // Stranger in Paradise // That Thou Art Mindful of Him // The Life and Times of Multivac // The
Bicentennial Man // Marching In // Old-Fashioned // The Tercentenary Incident
The Complete Stories: Volume 1 [UK]
1992
< First edition, February 1992
HarperCollins
ISBN 0-00-647647-3
Hardcover, 614 pages
£15.99
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
• The first half of the 1990 US edition of The Complete Stories Volume 1.
Fiction: 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 // 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
Poetry: The Foundation of S. F. Success // The Author's Ordeal
Goodreads
Robot Visions
1990
< First edition, 3 April 1990
Roc / Penguin
ISBN 0-451-45000-0
Hardcover, x+482 pages
$18.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
• 'Positronic Robot' series.
• Illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie.
Fiction: Robot Visions // Too Bad! // Robbie // Reason // Liar! // Runaround // Evidence // Little Lost Robot //
The Evitable Conflict // Feminine Intuition // The Bicentennial Man // Someday // Think! // Segregationist //
Mirror Image // Lenny // Galley Slave // Christmas Without Rodney
Essays: Robots I Have Known // The New Teachers // Whatever You Wish // The Friends We Make // Our
Intelligent Tools // The Laws of Robotics // Future Fantastic // The Machine and the Robot // The New Profession
// The Robot As Enemy? // Intelligences Together // My Robots // The Laws of Humanics // Cybernetic Organism
// The Sense of Humor // Robots in Combination
The Positronic Man
with Robert Silverberg
1992
< First edition, November 1992
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-04700-3
Hardcover, 223 pages
£14.99
Notes:
• Based on Asimov's novelette 'The Bicentennial Man'.
• 'Positronic Robot' series.
Prelude to Foundation
1988
< First edition, May 1988
Doubleday Foundation
ISBN 0-385-23313-2
Hardcover, x+403 pages
$18.95
Notes:
• 'Foundation' series #6.
Short fiction chapbooks
I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay
with Harlan Ellison
1994
< First edition, December 1994
Aspect / Warner Books
Hardcover, 271 pages
$14.99
Notes:
• Essay 'Harlan Ellison's I, Robot' by Isaac Asimov, and 'Me 'n' Isaac at the Movies: A Brief Memoir of Citizen Calvin'
by Harlan Ellison.
• 'Positronic Robot' series.
• Illustrated by Mark Zug.
Triangle
1961
< First edition, 2 June 1961
Doubleday
Hardcover, 516 pages
$4.95
Notes:
• 'Trantorian Empire' trilogy.
Fiction: The Currents of Space (1952) // Pebble in the Sky (1950) // The Stars, Like Dust (1951)
The Norby Chronicles
with Janet Asimov
1986
< April 1986, 1st edition
Ace Books
ISBN 0-8027-8642-1
Paperback, 185 pages
$2.95
Notes:
• 'Norby Chronicles' series #1–2.
Norby: Robot for Hire
with Janet Asimov
1987
< February 1987, 1st edition
Ace Books
ISBN 0-441-58635-X
Paperback, 203 pages
$2.95
Notes:
• 'Norby Chronicles' series #3–4.
Norby Through Time and Space
with Janet Asimov
1988
< September 1988, 1st edition
Ace Books
ISBN 0-441-58637-6
Paperback, 202 pages
$2.95
Notes:
• 'Norby Chronicles' series #5–6.
