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Isaac Asimov


USA flag (1920 - 1992)
Husband of Janet Asimov

aka Dr A, Paul French, C L Ray

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.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Fantasy, , Mystery, Horror
 
Series
Galactic Empire Trilogy
   1. The Stars, Like Dust (1951)
     aka The Rebellious Stars
   2. The Currents of Space (1952)
   3. Pebble in the Sky (1950)
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Foundation
   1. Prelude to Foundation (1988)
   2. Forward the Foundation (1993)
   3. Foundation (1951)
     aka The 1,000 Year Plan
   4. Foundation and Empire (1952)
     aka The Man Who Upset the Universe
   5. Second Foundation (1953)
   6. Foundation's Edge (1982)
   7. Foundation and Earth (1986)
continued in the series: Second Foundation
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Lucky Starr (as by Paul French)
   1. David Starr, Space Ranger (1952)
     aka Space Ranger
   2. Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (1954)
     aka Pirates of the Asteroids
   3. Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus (1954)
     aka The Oceans of Venus
   4. Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury (1956)
     aka The Big Sun of Mercury
   5. Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter (1957)
     aka The Moons of Jupiter
   6. Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn (1958)
     aka The Rings of Saturn
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R. Daneel Olivaw
   1. The Caves of Steel (1954)
   2. The Naked Sun (1956)
   3. The Robots of Dawn (1983)
   4. Robots and Empire (1985)
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Anthology series
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Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories (with Martin H Greenberg)
   1. The Great SF Stories One (1979)
   2. The Great SF Stories Two (1979)
   3. The Great SF Stories 3 (1980)
   4. The Great SF Stories 4 (1980)
   5. The Great SF Stories 5 (1981)
   6. The Great SF Stories 6 (1981)
   7. The Great SF Stories 7 (1982)
   8. The Great SF Stories 8 (1982)
   9. The Great SF Stories 9 (1983)
   10. The Great SF Stories 10 (1983)
   11. The Great SF Stories 11 (1984)
   12. The Great SF Stories 12 (1984)
   13. The Great SF Stories 13 (1985)
   14. The Great SF Stories 14 (1986)
   15. The Great SF Stories 15 (1986)
   16. The Great SF Stories 16 (1987)
   17. The Great SF Stories 17 (1988)
   18. The Great SF Stories 18 (1988)
   19. The Great SF Stories 19 (1989)
   20. The Great SF Stories 20 (1990)
   21. The Great SF Stories 21 (1990)
   22. The Great SF Stories 22 (1991)
   23. The Great SF Stories 23 (1991)
   24. The Great SF Stories 24 (1992)
   25. The Great SF Stories 25 (1992)
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Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy
   1. Wizards (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   2. Witches (1984) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   3. 3 Cosmic Knights (1985) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   4. Spells (1985) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   5. Giants (1985) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   6. Mythical Beasties (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   7. Magical Wishes (1986) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   8. Devils (1987) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   9. Atlantis (1988) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   10. Ghosts (1984) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   11. Curses (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   12. Faeries (1991) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
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Non fiction series
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How Did We Find Out About...
   How Did We Find Out About Photosynthesis? (1966)
   How Did We Find Out About Lasers? (1972)
   How Did We Find Out the Earth Is Round? (1972)
   How Did We Find Out About Electricity? (1973)
   How Did We Find Out About Numbers? (1973)
   How Did We Find Out About Dinosaurs? (1973)
   How Did We Find Out About Germs? (1974)
   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 Earthquakes? (1978)
   How Did We Find Out About Black Holes? (1978)
   How Did We Find Out About Our Human Roots? (1979)
   How Did We Find Out About Antarctica? (1979)
   How Did We Find Out About Oil? (1980)
   How Did We Find Out About Coal? (1980)
   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 Life in the Deep Sea? (1982)
   How Did We Find Out About the Universe? (1983)
   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 the Atmosphere? (1985)
   How Did We Find Out About DNA? (1985)
   How Did We Find Out About the Speed of Light? (1986)
   How Did We Find Out About Blood? (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 Neptune? (1990)
   How Did We Find Out About Pluto? (1991)
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ABC's of...
   Space Dictionary (1969)
     aka ABCs Of Space
   ABC's of the Ocean (1970)
   ABC's of Ecology (1972)
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Novels
   The End of Eternity (1955)
   A Whiff of Death (1958)
     aka The Death Dealers
   The Double Planet (1960)
   Fantastic Voyage (1966)
   The Gods Themselves (1972)
   The Heavenly Host (1975)
   Murder at the ABA (1976)
     aka Authorized Murder
   Destination Brain (1987)
   Nemesis (1989)
   Nightfall (1990) (with Robert Silverberg)
   Child of Time (1991) (with Robert Silverberg)
   The Ugly Little Boy (1992) (with Robert Silverberg)
   The Positronic Man (1992) (with Robert Silverberg)
   History of I-Botics (1997) (with James Chambers)
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Collections
   The Martian Way (1955)
   Earth Is Room Enough (1957)
   Nine Tomorrows (1959)
   Through a Glass, Clearly (1967)
   Asimov's Mysteries (1968)
   Nightfall and Other Stories (1969)
   The Best New Thing (1971)
   Nightfall Two (1971)
   The Early Asimov Volume 1 (1972)
     aka Eleven Years of Trying
   The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973)
   Have You Seen These? (1974)
   The Early Asimov Volume 2 (1974)
   The Early Asimov Volume 3 (1974)
   Buy Jupiter (1975)
   Lecherous Limericks (poems) (1975)
   Bicentennial Man (1976)
   More Lecherous Limericks (poems) (1976)
   The Key Word and Other Mysteries (1977)
   Still More Lecherous Limericks (poems) (1977)
   Limericks: Too Gross (poems) (1978) (with John Ciardi)
   Asimov's Sherlockian Limericks (poems) (1978)
   Prisoners of the Stars (1978)
   A Grossery of Limericks (poems) (1981) (with John Ciardi)
   The Winds of Change (1983)
   The Union Club Mysteries (1983)
   Isaac Asimov's Limericks for Children (poems) (1984)
   The Edge of Tomorrow (1985)
   The Disappearing Man (1985)
   The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986)
   The Alternate Asimovs (1986)
   Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov (1988)
   Azazel (1988)
   All the Troubles of the World (1989)
   The Asimov Chronicles (1989)
   Pshrinks Anonymous (1990)
   The Complete Stories (1990)
   Gold (1991)
   The Complete Stories Volume Two (1992)
   Magic (1996)
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Anthologies edited
   Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales (1963) (with Groff Conklin)
   Tomorrow's Children (1966)
   Where Do We Go from Here? (1971)
   Treasury of Humour (1972)
   Mars, We Love You (1973)
   Before the Golden Age Volume 1 (1974)
   Before the Golden Age Volume 2 (1975)
   Before the Golden Age Volume 3 (1975)
   Before the Golden Age Volume 4 (1976)
   Familiar Poems, Annotated (1977)
   100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978) (with Martin H Greenberg and Joseph Olander)
   100 Great Science Fiction Stories (1978)
   Asimov's Choice: Extraterrestrials and Eclipses (1978)
   Isaac Asimov's Masters of Science Fiction (1978) (with George Scithers)
   Isaac Asimov's Marvels of Science Fiction, Volume 2 (1979)
   The Science Fictional Solar System (1979) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   13 Crimes of Science Fiction (1979)
   Isaac Asimov's Marvels of Science Fiction (1979)
   Microcosmic Tales (1980) (with Martin H Greenberg and Joseph Olander)
   Space Mail (1980) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Who Done It? (1980) (with Alice Laurance)
   The Future in Question (1980) (with Martin H Greenberg and Joseph Olander)
   The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction (1980) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Future I (1980) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   The Twelve Crimes of Christmas (1981)
   Catastrophes! (1981) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   100 Malicious Little Mysteries (1981)
     aka Miniature Mysteries
   Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century (1981) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction (1981) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Thinking Machines (1981) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Travels Through Time (1981) (with Martin H Greenberg, Thomas Leonard and Charles G Waugh)
   Wild Inventions (1981) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Fantastic Creatures (1981) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Space Mail 2 (1982)
   Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries (1982) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   TV: 2000 (1982)
   Laughing Space (1982) (with J O Jeppson (Janet Asimov))
   Dragon Tales (1982) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Flying Saucers (1982)
   The Big Apple Mysteries (1982) (with Martin H Greenberg and Carol-Lynn Waugh)
   The Last Man on Earth (1982) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Speculations (1982) (with Alice Laurance)
   The Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   The Golden Years of Science Fiction Second Series (1983)
   Golden Years of SF (1983)
   Caught in the Organ Draft (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Hallucination Orbit (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Show Business Is Murder (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg and Carol-Lynn Waugh)
   Starships (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Creations (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg and George Zebrowski)
   13 Horrors of Halloween (1983)
   Computer Crimes and Capers (1983) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines (1983)
   Golden Years of SF 3rd Series (1984)
   Golden Years of SF 4th Series (1984)
   Science Fiction 18 (1984) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories (1984) (with Terry Carr and Martin H Greenberg)
   Murder On the Menu (1984) (with Martin H Greenberg and Carol-Lynn Waugh)
   Election Day 2084 (1984) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space (1984) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Science Fiction Novels (1985)
   Golden Years of SF 5th Series (1985)
   The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book (1985) (with Martin H Greenberg and George R R Martin)
   Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Great Scientists (1985) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Amazing Stories (1985) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Isaac Asimov's Choice (1986)
   Science Fiction Masterpieces (1986)
   The Twelve Frights of Christmas (1986) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Hound Dunnit (1987) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Golden Years of SF 6th Series (1988)
   Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (1988) (with Martin H Greenberg and Joseph Olander)
   Encounters (1988)
   Mutants (1988) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   The Best Crime Stories of the Nineteenth Century (1988) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Extraterrestrials (1988) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   The Sport of Crime (1988)
   Friends, Robots, Countrymen (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Purr-fect Crime (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg and Carol-Lynn Waugh)
   Tales of the Occult (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Senior Sleuths (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Visions of Fantasy (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Cosmic Critiques (1990) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Orbit (1990)
   Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction (1991) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   War With the Robots (1992)
   All-Time Favorite Science Fiction Stories (1997)
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Chapbooks
   It's Such a Beautiful Day (1985)
   Franchise (1989)
   Robbie (1989)
   Sally (1989)
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Plays
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Fun They Had (1951)
   Youth (1952)
   The Last Question (1956)
   Let's Get Together (1957)
   Good Taste (1976)
   The Last Answer (1980)
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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 (1959)
   Breakthroughs In Science (1960)
   The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science; Vol 1. Physical Sciences (1960)
   The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science; Vol 2. 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 (1961)
   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 (1963)
   The Human Brain (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) (with Stephen H Dole)
   Quick and Easy Mathematics (1964)
   A Short History of Biology (1964)
   View from a Height (1964)
   Asimov Laughs Again (1965)
   An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule (1965)
   Greeks (1965)
   The 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 (1966)
   The Genetic Effects of Radiation (1966)
   Neutrino (1966)
   The Noble Gases (1966)
   Photosynthesis (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 (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 (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 Stars in Their Courses (1971)
   What Makes the Sun Shine? (1971)
   ABC's of the Earth (1971)
   The Sensuous Dirty Old Man (1971)
   The Land of Canaan (1971)
   Electricity and Man (1972)
   Left Hand of the Electron (1972)
   Worlds Within Worlds (1972)
   Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humour (1972)
   More Words of Science (1972)
   The Shaping of France (1972)
   The Story of Ruth (1972)
   The Birth Of The United States, 1763-1816 (1973)
   Today and Tomorrow And.. (1973)
   Please Explain (1973)
   The Tragedy of the Moon (1973)
   Towards Tomorrow (1974)
   Our World In Space (1974)
   Earth Our Crowded Spaceship (1975)
   Our Federal Union (1975)
   Science Past, Science Future (1975)
   Eyes on the Universe (1975)
   The Ends of the Earth (1975)
   Of Matters Great and Small (1975)
   The Solar System (1975)
   Frontiers (1976)
   Alpha Centauri, the Nearest Star (1976)
   The Planet That Wasn't (1976)
   The Exploding Suns (1977)
   The Tyrannosaurus Prescription (1977)
   The Collapsing Universe (1977)
   Mars, the Red Planet (1977)
   The Beginning and the End (1977)
   The Golden Door (1977)
   How Is Paper Made? (1978)
   Quasar, Quasar Burning Bright (1978)
   Life and Time (1978)
   Animals of the Bible (1978)
   Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor (1979)
   In Memory Yet Green (1979)
   Saturn and Beyond (1979)
   Extraterrestrial Civilizations (1979)
   Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts (1979)
   A Choice of Catastrophes (1979)
   Opus 200 (1979)
   Road to Infinity (1979)
   In Joy Still Felt (1980)
   The Subatomic Monster (1981)
   Venus (1981)
   How Did We Find Out About Solar Power? (1981)
   In the Beginning (1981)
   Change! (1981)
   The Sun Shines Bright (1981)
   Visions of the Universe (1981)
   Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz (1982)
   More, Would You Believe? (1982)
   Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos (1982)
   Frontiers of Science (1983)
   Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz 2 (1983)
   Counting the Eons (1983)
   The Roving Mind (1983)
   Measure of the Universe (1983)
   I. Asimov (1984)
   X Stands for Unknown (1984)
   The History of Physics (1984)
   Opus 300 (1984)
   Robots: Machines in Man's Image (1985) (with Karen Frenkel)
   Living in the Future (1985)
   Ancient astronomy (1986)
   The Dangers of Intelligence (1986)
   Futuredays (1986)
   Isaac Asimov presents superquiz 3 (1987)
   Far As Human Eye Could See (1987)
   Past, Present and Future (1987)
   How to Enjoy Writing (1987) (with Janet Asimov)
   Beginnings (1987)
   Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space (1988)
   Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988) (with Jason A Shulman)
   The Earth's Moon (1988)
   The Relativity of Wrong (1988)
   Earth: Our Home Base (1988)
   Asimov's Galaxy (1988)
   Mars: Our Mysterious Neighbor (1988)
   Our Solar System (1988)
   Rockets, Probes, and Satellites (1988)
   The Space Spotter's Guide (1988)
   Uranus: The sideways planet (1988)
   The Complete Science Fair Handbook (1989)
   Isaac Asimov presents superquiz 4 (1989)
   Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery (1989)
   Astronomy Today (1989)
   Pluto: A double planet? (1989)
   The Birth and Death of Stars (1989)
   Is There Life On Other Planets? (1989)
   Jupiter: the Spotted Giant (1989)
   Mercury: the Quick Planet (1989)
   Piloted Space Flights (1990)
   Out of the Everywhere (1990)
   Colonizing the Planets and Stars (1990)
   Projects in Astronomy (1990)
   Neptune: the Farthest Giant (1990)
   The World's Space Programs (1990)
   The Secret of the Universe (1991)
   Atom (1991)
   Ferdinand Magellan (1991)
   Space Garbage (1991)
   What Is an Eclipse? (1991)
   What Is a Shooting Star? (1991)
   Why Do Stars Twinkle? (1991)
   Why Do We Have Different Seasons? (1991)
   Why Does the Moon Change Shape? (1991)
   Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991)
   Christopher Columbus: Navigator to the new world (1991)
   Henry Hudson (1991) (with Elizabeth Kaplan)
   Our Angry Earth (1991) (with Frederik Pohl)
   Is Our Planet Warming Up? (1992)
   What Causes Acid Rain? (1992)
   Where Does Garbage Go? (1992)
   Why Are Whales Vanishing? (1992)
   Why Is the Air Dirty? (1992)
   Why Are the Rain Forests Vanishing? (1992)
   What's Happening to the Ozone Layer? (1992)
   Why Are Animals Endangered? (1992)
   Why Are Some Beaches Oily? (1992)
   Why Does Litter Cause Problems? (1992)
   How Do Aeroplanes Fly? (1992)
   How Does a TV Work? (1992)
   How Do Big Ships Float? (1992)
   Frontiers II (1993) (with Janet Asimov)
   Death from Space (1994)
   Yours, Isaac Asimov (1995)
   Asimov's Dictionary of Scientific Terms (1999)
   It's Been a Good Life (2002) (with Janet Asimov)
   Talks with the Masters (2018) (with Ray Bradbury, Arthur C Clarke, James Gunn and George Zebrowski)
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Black Cat Weekly
   43. Black Cat Weekly #43 (2022) (with others)
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Anthologies containing stories by Isaac Asimov
The Silver Ship (1932)
From Other Worlds (1952)
The Second Ghost Book (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)
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)
Best SF: 1969 (1969)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 3
Other Worlds, Other Times (1969)
Best SF 7 (1970)
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 1 (1970)
The Other Dimension (1972)
3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1972)
The Edge of Never (1973)
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973)
Astounding (1973)
     aka The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2B (1974)
Space Opera (1974)
Modern Science Fiction (1974)
Final Stage (1974)
The Best from If, Volume III (1976)
Before the Golden Age Volume 4 (1976)
The Best Science Fiction Stories (1977)
To Follow a Star (1977)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 (1977)
Exiles (1977)
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978)
Nebula Winners 12 (1978)
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year 1978 (1979)
The Great SF Stories One (1979)
The Great SF Stories Two (1979)
The End of Summer (1979)
Classic Science Fiction (1979)
The Science Fictional Solar System (1979)
More Tales of Unknown Horror (1979)
The Great SF Stories 3 (1980)
The Great SF Stories 4 (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 8 (1982)
The Great SF Stories 7 (1982)
The Great SF Stories 9 (1983)
Sci-Fi Private Eye (1984)
Top Science Fiction (1984)
Election Day 2084 (1984)
The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984)
Random Access Messages of the Computer Age (1984)
The Great SF Stories 13 (1985)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1986)
Terrorists of Tomorrow (1986)
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987)
Nebula Awards 22 (1987)
Robots (1989)
The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction (1989)
The Great SF Stories 19 (1989)
Between Time and Terror (1990)
The Night Fantastic (1991)
Inside the Funhouse (1992)
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1992)
First Words (1993)
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite (1993)
Aliens and UFO's (1993)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Fantasy Stories (1994)
Science Fiction, Science Fact, and You (1995)
Tales of the Batman (1995)
Dinosaurs II (1995)
The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 2 (1996)
Dinosaurs (1996)
The Wizards of Odd (1996)
UFOs (1996)
Ackermanthology (1997)
The New Hugo Winners Volume IV (1997)
Time Machines (1997)
Isaac Asimov's Christmas (1997)
Future on Ice (1998)
Don't Open This Book! (1998)
Vintage Science Fiction (1999)
Bangs and Whimpers (1999)
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Short stories
Behind the Scenes
A Case of Need
The Corner Shop (as by C L Ray)
The Disappearing Man [short story]
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 [short story] (1940)
     aka Strange Playfellow
Strange Playfellow (1940)
     aka Robbie
The Tweenie (1940)
Big Game (1941)
Liar! (1941)
Nightfall [short story] (1941)
Reason (1941)
Robot AL-76 Goes Astray (1941)
The Secret Sense (1941)
Black Friar of the Flame (1942)
Christmas on Ganymede (1942)
Foundation [short story] (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)
Hostess (1951)
"In a Good Cause" (1951)
The Deep (1952)
The Martian Way [short story] (1952)
What If... (1952)
Youth [short story] (1952)
Belief (1953)
Flies (1953)
The Monkey's Finger (1953)
Nobody Here But (1953)
Sally [short story] (1953)
The Foundation of Science Fiction Success (1954)
It's Such a Beautiful Day [short story] (1954)
The Pause (1954)
Dreaming Is a Private Thing (1955)
Franchise [short story] (1955)
Risk (1955)
The Singing Bell (1955)
First Law (1956)
Hell-Fire (1956)
Jokester (1956)
Strikebreaker (1956)
Does a Bee Care? (1957)
Galley Slave (1957)
Insert Knob A in Hole B (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 [short story] (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 Awards (nominee)
Founding Father (1965)Nebula Awards (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)Hugo
Nebula Awards
Sure Thing (1977)
True Love (1977)
Found! (1978)
Nothing for Nothing (1979)
For the Birds (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 [short story] (1986)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula Awards (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 [short story] (1991)Hugo
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)


Awards
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1966) : Eyes Do More Than See
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1966) : Founding Father
Hugo Best Novel winner (1973) : The Gods Themselves
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1973) : The Gods Themselves
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1975) : That Thou Art Mindful of Him!
Hugo Best Novellette winner (1977) : The Bicentennial Man
Nebula Awards Best Novellette winner (1977) : The Bicentennial Man
Hugo Best Novel winner (1983) : Foundation's Edge
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1983) : Foundation's Edge
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1984) : The Robots of Dawn
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1987) : Robot Dreams [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1987) : Robot Dreams [short story]
Hugo Best Novellette winner (1992) : Gold [short story]


Isaac Asimov recommends
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Tumithak of the Corridors (2005)
Charles R Tanner
"Human Characters and an Exciting Plot!"
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Over the River and Through the Woods (1996)
Clifford D Simak
"I read Cliff's stories with particular attention, and I couldn't help but notice the simplicity and directness of the writing - the utter clarity of it. I made up my mind to imitate it, and I labored over the years to make my writing simpler, clearer, more uncluttered, to present my scenes on a bare stage"
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The Multiplex Man (1992)
James P Hogan
"Arthur C Clarke, move over."
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2061 (1987)
(Space Odyssey, book 3)
Arthur C Clarke
"Nobody has done more in the way of enlightened prediction...in this respect he is the most important science fiction writer."
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And Having Writ... (1979)
Donald R Benson
"Utterly charming."
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The Ancient Engineers (1974)
L Sprague de Camp
"Mr. de Camp has the trick of being able to show technology engaging in feats as full of derring-do as those of Hannibal's army. History as it should be told."

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