The Complete Stories can refer to two different series:
The original series that 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. The extended series by HarperVoyager that began by republishing the original series and continued with additional volumes.
Volume 1
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: , paperback: ). In 2024, it was republished by HarperVoyager as two parts: "Living Space and Other Stories" (having the first 25 stories) and "Nightfall and Other Stories" (having the last 23 stories).
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
Volume Two contains short stories previously published in several other anthologies. In 2024, it was republished by HarperVoyager as two parts: "The Martian Way and Other Stories" (having the first 19 stories and Obituary) and "The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories" (having Anniversary and the last 19 stories).
Volume 2 contains the following short stories: 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 extended series series by HarperVoyager The Complete Series was extended by two books by HarperVoyager in 2024: Ring Around the Sun and Other Stories and Mother Earth and Other Stories. In 2025 Gold and Magic were republished as part of the series.
Ring Around the Sun and Other Stories contains the following stories:
Marooned off Vesta 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 Super-Neutron Legal Rites Time Pussy No Connection
Mother Earth and Other Stories contains the following stories:
The Prime of Life (poem) Mother Earth Darwinian Pool Room Shah Guido G. Button, Button Everest The Pause Let's Not Youth Sucker Bait What's in a Name? The Dust of Death Blank! Silly Asses Buy Jupiter Author! Author! The Proper Study Waterclap 2430 A.D. Thiotimoline to the Stars The Winnowing Birth of a Notion
See also Isaac Asimov short stories bibliography
References
External links
Review of Volume 1 at Asimovreviews.net Review of Volume 2 at Asimovreviews.net