List of short stories by Isaac Asimov

This list of short stories by Isaac Asimov is divided into published collections. Note, though, that some of his novels, such as "Foundation", could also be considered short story collections, because they were originally published serially in stories that were relatively self-contained.

"I, Robot" (1950)

* (1947) Little Lost Robot
* (1942) Runaround
* (1941) Liar!
* (1940) Robbie (short story)
* (1941) Reason
* (1944) Catch That Rabbit
* (1945) Escape!
* (1946) Evidence
* (1950) The Evitable Conflict

"The Martian Way and Other Stories" (1955)

* (1952) The Martian Way
* (1952) Youth
* (1952) The Deep
* (1954) Sucker Bait

"Earth Is Room Enough" (1957)

* (1951) The Fun They Had
* (1956) The Watery Place
* (1956) The Dead Past
* (1954) The Foundation of S.F. Success
* (1953) Kid Stuff
* (1955) Franchise
* (1956) Gimmicks Three
* (1956) Living Space
* (1955) The Message
* (1951) Satisfaction Guaranteed
* (1956) Hell-Fire
* (1955) The Last Trump
* (1956) Jokester
* (1953) The Immortal Bard
* (1956) Someday
* (1957) The Author's Ordeal
* (1955) Dreaming is a Private Thing

"Nine Tomorrows" (1959)

* (1958) The Feeling of Power
* (1958) The Ugly Little Boy
* (1956) The Dying Night
* (1957) I'm in Marsport Without Hilda
* (1958) I Just Make Them Up, See!
* (1957) Profession
* (1957) The Gentle Vultures
* (1958) All the Troubles of the World
* (1958) Spell My Name with an S
* (1956) The Last Question
* (????) Rejection Slips

"The Rest of the Robots" (1964)

* (1942) Robot AL-76 Goes Astray
* (1942) Victory Unintentional
* (1956) First Law
* (1957) Let's Get Together
* (1955) Risk
* (1957) Galley Slave
* (1951) Satisfaction Guaranteed
* (1958) Lenny

"Through a Glass, Clearly" (1967)

* (1951) Breeds There a Man...?
* (1951) C-Chute
* (1954) It's Such a Beautiful Day
* (1953) Belief

"Asimov's Mysteries" (1968)

* (1955) The Singing Bell
* (1955) The Talking Stone
* (1956) What's in a Name?
* (1956) The Dying Night
* (1956) Pâté de Foie Gras
* (1957) The Dust of Death
* (1957) A Loint of Paw
* (1957) I'm in Marsport Without Hilda
* (1939) Marooned off Vesta
* (1959) Anniversary
* (1959) Obituary
* (1962) Star Light
* (1966) The Key
* (1967) The Billiard Ball

"Nightfall and Other Stories" (1969)

* (1941) Nightfall
* (1950) Green Patches
* (1951) Hostess
* (1951) Breeds There a Man...?
* (1951) C-Chute
* (1951) In a Good Cause-
* (1952) What If-
* (1953) Sally
* (1953) Flies
* (1953) Nobody Here But-
* (1954) It's Such a Beautiful Day
* (1957) Strikebreaker
* (1957) Insert Knob A in Hole B
* (1958) The Up-To-Date Sorcerer
* (1959) Unto the Fourth Generation
* (1961) What is This Thing Called Love?
* (1961) The Machine that Won the War
* (1962) My Son, the Physicist
* (1965) Eyes Do More Than See
* (1967) Segregationist

"The Early Asimov" (1972)

* (1939) The Callistan Menace
* (1940) Ring Around the Sun
* (1940) The Magnificent Possession
* (1939) Trends
* (1939) The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use
* (1942) Black Friar of the Flame
* (1940) Half-Breed
* (1941) The Secret Sense
* (1950) The Little Man on the Subway
* (1942) The Hazing
* (1941) Super-Neutron
* (1941) Not Final
* (1950) Legal Rites
* (1942) Time Pussy
* (1941) Heredity
* (1941) History
* (1942) Christmas on Ganymede
* (1942) The Imaginary
* (1940) Homo Sol
* (1940) Half-Breeds on Venus
* (1964) Author! Author!
* (1948) The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline
* (1943) Death Sentence
* (1945) Blind Alley
* (1948) No Connection
* (1949) The Red Queen's Race
* (1949) Mother Earth

"Tales of the Black Widowers" (1974)

* (1972) The Acquisitive Chuckle
* (1972) Ph as in Phony
* (1972) Truth to Tell
* (1972) Go, Little Book!
* (1973) Early Sunday Morning
* (1973) The Obvious Factor
* (1973) The Pointing Finger
* (1973) Miss What?
* (1974) The Lullaby of Broadway
* (1974) Yankee Doodle Went to Town
* (1974) The Curious Omission
* (1973) Out of Sight

"Buy Jupiter and Other Stories" (1975)

* (1950) Darwinian Pool Room
* (1950) Day of the Hunters
* (1951) Shah Guido G.
* (1952) Button, Button
* (1952) The Monkey's Finger
* (1953) Everest
* (1954) The Pause
* (1954) Let's Not
* (1956) Each an Explorer
* (1957) Blank!
* (1957) Does a Bee Care?
* (1957) Silly Asses
* (1958) Buy Jupiter
* (1958) A Statue for Father
* (1959) Rain, Rain, Go Away
* (1965) Founding Father
* (1968) Exile to Hell
* (1968) Key Item
* (1968) The Proper Study
* (1970) 2430 A.D.
* (1971) The Greatest Asset
* (1972) Take a Match
* (1973) Thiotimoline to the Stars
* (1973) Light Verse

"The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories" (1976)

* (1970) Waterclap
* (1976) The Winnowing
* (1966) The Prime of Life
* (1969) Feminine Intuition
* (1974) That Thou Art Mindful of Him
* (1974) Stranger In Paradise
* (1975) The Life and Times of Multivac
* (1976) The Bicentennial Man
* (1976) Marching In
* (1976) Old-fashioned
* (1976) The Tercentenary Incident
* (1976) Birth of a Notion

"More Tales of the Black Widowers" (1976)

* (1974) When No Man Pursueth
* (1974) Quicker Than the Eye
* (1974) The Iron Gem
* (1974) The Three Numbers
* (1974) Nothing Like Murder
* (1974) No Smoking
* (1976) Season's Greetings!
* (1975) The One and Only East
* (1975) Earthset and Evening Star
* (1975) Friday the Thirteenth
* (1976) The Unabridged
* (1976) The Ultimate Crime

"The Casebook of the Black Widowers" (1980)

* (1976) The Cross of Lorraine
* (1976) The Family Man
* (1977) The Sports Page
* (1980) Second Best
* (1977) The Missing Item
* (1978) The Next Day
* (1979) Irrelevance!
* (1979) None So Blind
* (1979) The Backward Look
* (1980) What Time is It?
* (1980) Middle Name
* (1979) To the Barest

"Banquets of the Black Widowers" (1980)

* (1980) Sixty Million Trillion Combinations
* (1980) The Woman in the Bar
* (1984) The Driver
* (1980) The Good Samaritan
* (1980) The Year of the Action
* (1981) Can You Prove It?
* (1982) The Phoenician Bauble
* (1983) A Monday in April
* (1984) Neither Brute nor Human
* (1984) The Redhead
* (1984) The Wrong House
* (1984) The Intrusion

"The Union Club Mysteries" (1980)

* (1980) No Refuge Could Save
* (1980) The Telephone Number
* (1980) The Men Who Wouldn't Talk
* (1980) A Clear Shot
* (1981) Irresistible to Women
* (1981) He Wasn't There
* (1981) The Thin Line
* (1981) Mystery Tune
* (1981) Hide and Seek
* (1981) Gift
* (1981) Hot or Cold
* (1981) The Thirteenth Page
* (1981) 1 to 999
* (1981) Twelve Years Old
* (1981) Testing, Testing!
* (1981) The Appleby Story
* (1982) Dollars and Cents
* (1982) Friends and Allies
* (1982) Which is Which?
* (1982) The Sign
* (1982) Catching the Fox
* (1982) Getting the Combination
* (1982) The Library Book
* (1982) The Three Goblets
* (1982) Spell It!
* (1982) Two Women
* (1982) Sending a Signal
* (1982) The Favourite Piece
* (1983) Half a Ghost
* (1983) There Was a Young Lady

"The Winds of Change and Other Stories" (1983)

* (1953) Belief
* (1977) About Nothing
* (1981) A Perfect Fit
* (1980) Death of a Foy
* (1979) Fair Exchange?
* (1980) For the Birds
* (1978) Found!
* (1976) Good Taste
* (1979) How It Happened
* (1957) Ideas Die Hard
* (1981) Ignition Point!
* (1979) It Is Coming
* (1980) The Last Answer
* (1981) The Last Shuttle
* (1982) Lest We Remember
* (1979) Nothing for Nothing
* (1982) One Night of Song
* (1982) The Smile That Loses
* (1977) Sure Thing
* (1977) To Tell at a Glance
* (1982) The Winds of Change

= "Azazel" (1988) =

* (1982) One Night of Song
* (1982) The Smile That Loses
* (1988) The Two-Centimeter Demon
* (1982) To the Victor
* (1982) The Dim Rumble
* (1983) Saving Humanity
* (1983) A Matter of Principle
* (1984) The Evil Drink Does
* (1984) Writing Time
* (1984) Dashing Through the Snow
* (1985) Logic Is Logic
* (1985) He Travels the Fastest
* (1985) The Eye of the Beholder
* (1986) More Things in Heaven and Earth
* (1986) The Mind's Construction
* (1986) The Fights of Spring
* (1987) Galatea
* (1988) Flight of Fancy

= "Gold" (1996) =

* (1990) Cal
* (1987) Left to Right
* (1991) Frustration
* (1995) Hallucination
* (1989) The Instability
* (1995) Alexander the God
* (1995) In the Canyon
* (1989) Good-bye to Earth
* (1995) Battle-Hymn
* (1995) Feghoot and the Courts
* (1990) Fault-Intolerant
* (1990) Kid Brother
* (1995) The Nations in Space
* (1989) The Smile of the Chipper
* (1991) Gold

= "Magic" (1996) =

* (1989) Thinking about Thinking
* (1989) To Your Health
* (1992) The Critic on the Hearth
* (1991) It's a Job
* (1991) Baby, It's Cold Outside
* (1990) The Time Traveller
* (1990) Wine Is a Mocker
* (1989) The Mad Scientist
* (1987) The Fable of the Three Princes
* (1994) March Against the Foe
* (1989) Northwestward
* (1991) Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon
* (1985) Magic
* (1986) Sword and Sorcery
* (1991) Concerning Tolkien
* (1985) In Days of Old
* (1985) Giants in the Earth
* (1982) When Fantasy Became Fantasy
* (1978) The Reluctant Critic
* (1986) The Unicorn
* (1987) Unknown
* (1978) Extraordinary Voyages
* (1985) Fairy Tales
* (1986) Dear Judy-Lynn
* (1984) Fantasy
* (1990) Reading and Writing
* (1996) The Right Answer
* (1989) Ignorance in America
* (1989) Knock Plastic!
* (1989) Lost in Non-Translation
* (1989) Look Long Upon a Monkey

External links

* [http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/books/a/asimov.htm Collates stories to collections]