title: The Complete Stories (Asimov)
text: 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
  
  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: ).
  
  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:
  
   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
  
  See also
   Isaac Asimov short stories bibliography
  
  References
  
  External links
  
   Review of Volume 1 at Asimovreviews.net
   Review of Volume 2 at Asimovreviews.net
  
  Complete Stories
  Complete Stories
  Complete Stories, The
  Doubleday (publisher) books