''The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov'' is a collection of forty eight short
science fiction
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and mystery stories and two science essays by American writer
Isaac Asimov, published by Dark Harvest in May 1989.
It is the only one of Asimov's collections to contain the
Azazel
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fantasy story "I Love Little Pussy". (This story also appears in the anthology ''
Magicats II'' (1991), featuring also other writers.
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Contents
* "Marooned Off Vesta
"Marooned off Vesta" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was the third story he wrote, and the first to be published. Written in July 1938 when Asimov was 18, it was rejected by '' Astounding Science Fiction'' i ...
" (1939)
* "Robbie
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People Given name Robbie
* Robbie Amell (born ...
" (1940)
* " Nightfall" (1941), novellete
* " Runaround" (1942), novelette, ''Robot'' series
* "Death Sentence
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" (1943)
* "Catch That Rabbit
"Catch that Rabbit" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the February 1944 issue of '' Astounding Science Fiction'' and reprinted in the collections '' I, Robot'' (1950) and ''The Complete ...
" (1944)
* "Blind Alley
"Blind Alley" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the March 1945 issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction'', and later included in the collection ''The Early Asimov'' (1972).
Although the sto ...
" (1945), ''Galactic Empire'' series #4
* " Evidence" (1946), novelette
* "Little Lost Robot
"Little Lost Robot" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the March 1947 issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction'' and reprinted in the collections ''I, Robot'' (1950), ''The Complete Robot'' (1 ...
" (1947), novelette, ''Robot'' series
* "No Connection
"No Connection" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the June 1948 issue of '' Astounding Science Fiction'' and reprinted in the 1972 collection ''The Early Asimov''.
Background
Written in ...
" (1948)
* " The Red Queen's Race" (1949), novelette
* " Green Patches" (1950)
* " Breeds There a Man...?" (1951), novelette
* "The Martian Way
''The Martian Way'' is a science fiction novella by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the November 1952 issue of ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' and reprinted in the collections '' The Martian Way and Other Stories'' (1955), '' T ...
" (1952), novelette
* "Sally
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*Sally (name), a list of notable people with the name
Military
* Sally (military), an attack by the defenders of a town or fortress under siege against a besieging force; see sally port
*Sally, the Allied reporting na ...
" (1953), ''Robot'' series
* "The Fun They Had
"The Fun They Had" is a science fiction story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in a children's newspaper in 1951 and was reprinted in the February 1954 issue of ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'', ''Earth Is Room En ...
" (1951)
* "Franchise
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* Franchise, a privilege to operate a type of business such as a cable television p ...
" (1955), ''Multivac'' series
* "The Last Question
"The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and was anthologized in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac A ...
" (1956), ''Multivac'' series
* "Profession
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" (1957), novella
* " The Ugly Little Boy" (1958), novelette
* "Unto the Fourth Generation
"Unto the Fourth Generation" is a fantasy short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the April 1959 issue of ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' (''F&SF'') and has been reprinted in the collections '' Nightfall and Other Storie ...
" (1959)
* " Thiotimoline and the Space Age" (1960), ''Thiotimoline'' series #3
* " The Machine that Won the War" (1961), ''Multivac'' series
* "My Son, the Physicist "My Son, the Physicist" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was commissioned by Hoffman Electronics Corporation and appeared in February 1962 in ''Scientific American''. It later appeared in Asimov's collection '' ...
" (1962), ''Multivac'' series
* "T-Formation" (1963), essay, reprinted from ''Adding a Dimension
''Adding a Dimension'' is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the third of a series of books collecting essays from ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction''. It was first publ ...
''
* " Author! Author!" (1964), novelette
* " Eyes Do More Than See" (1965)
* " The Key" (1966), novelette, ''Wendell Urth'' series
* "The Billiard Ball
"The Billiard Ball" is a science fiction short story by American author Isaac Asimov, written in September 1966 and first published in the March 1967 issue of '' If''. It appeared in Asimov's 1968 collection ''Asimov's Mysteries'', in his 1973 coll ...
" (1967), novelette
* " Exile to Hell" (1968)
* " Feminine Intuition" (1969), novelette, ''Robot'' series
* " A Problem of Numbers" (1970)
* "Bill and I" (1971), essay, reprinted from ''The Left Hand of the Electron
''The Left Hand of the Electron'' is a collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov, first published by Doubleday & Company in 1972. It was the ninth of a series of books collecting essays from ...
''
* " Mirror Image" (1972), ''Robot'' series #2.5
* "Light Verse
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" (1973), ''Robot'' series
* ". . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him
". . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him" (also signed as "That Thou Art Mindful of Him") is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, which he intended to be an "ultimate" probe into the subtleties of his Three Laws of Robotics. ...
" (1974), novelette, ''Robot'' series
* " Earthset and Evening Star" (1975), ''Black Widowers'' series
* "The Bicentennial Man
''The Bicentennial Man'' is a novelette in the ''Robot'' series by American writer Isaac Asimov. According to the foreword in ''Robot Visions'', Asimov was approached to write a story, along with a number of other authors who would do the same ...
" (1976), novelette, ''Robot'' series
* " True Love" (1977), ''Robot'' series, ''Multivac'' series
* " Found!" (1978)
* " Nothing for Nothing" (1979)
* " For the Birds" (1980)
* " Ignition Point!" (1981)
* " Lest We Remember" (1982), novelette
* " Saving Humanity" (1983), ''Azazel'' series
* " Neither Brute Nor Human" (1984), ''Black Widowers'' series
* " The Fourth Homonym" (1985), ''Black Widowers'' series
* " The Eye of the Beholder" (1986), ''Azazel'' series
* " The Quiet Place" (1988), ''Black Widowers'' series
* " I Love Little Pussy" (1988), ''Azazel'' series
References
External links
''The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov''
at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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1989 short story collections
Science fiction short story collections by Isaac Asimov