The Complete Stories (Asimov)
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The Complete Stories is a discontinued series intended to form a definitive collection of Isaac Asimov's short stories and novels. Originally published in 1990 (Volume 1) and 1992 (Volume 2) by Doubleday, it was discontinued after the second book of the planned series. Altogether 88 of Asimov's 383 published short stories are collected in these two volumes.
Volume 1
[edit]The first volume consists of the stories previously collected in Earth Is Room Enough, Nine Tomorrows, and Nightfall and Other Stories (but not the commentary from Nightfall and Other Stories). In 2001, Broadway Books published a new edition of the first volume (hardback: ISBN 0-385-41606-7, paperback: ISBN 0-385-41627-X).
Volume One contains the following short stories:
- The Dead Past
- The Foundation of S. F. Success
- 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
- The Author's Ordeal
- 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…?
- 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
- I Just Make Them Up, See!
- Rejection Slips
Volume 2
[edit]Volume Two contains short stories previously published in several other anthologies:
- 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