The Complete Stories

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• milchek · Jun 16, 2022 · Recommends

  For those who haven’t read much Asimov and enjoy short stories like this one, check out his book “The Complete Stories Volume 1.” There are some really entertaining and prescient sci-fi short stories in it.

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• rpgmaker · Mar 28, 2016 · Recommends

  …novels. There is a very good and comprehensive collection that I've been reading for a while now, reading one or two stories every once in a while. I really recommend it: http://www.amazon.com/Isaac-Asimov-Complete-Stories-Vol/dp/0... http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Stories-Vol-2/dp/0385420781

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• godelski · Sep 13, 2025 · Recommends

  …around them. It's a really good read. I highly recommend. It's old Sci-Fi, so can be rough, but I feel it has aged well. It's under 50 pages, so easy to finish in a single sitting. It's in Asimov's "The Complete Stories Vol I" if you find a copy, but you can find it online or I believe it is also in "The Asimov Chronicles". It's also HN, so I hope everyone knows ways to get those... Btw, the Wiki[1] has spoilers. Do…

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• plants · Dec 6, 2021 · Recommends

  Some of my favorite fiction books and short story collections in no particular order: 1) Collected Fictions by Borges 2) The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka 3) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 4) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 5) 9 Stories by J.D. Salinger 6) 60 Stories by Donald Barthelme 7) 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel…

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• almost · Apr 23, 2010 · Mentions

  …Science Fiction Quarterly and was reprinted in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), the retrospective Opus 100 (1969), and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1" I personally read it in Robot Dreams, which is a great collection of stories.

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• nix0n · Mar 28, 2016 · Mentions

  Asimov's Nightfall exists in 2 versions, as a short story and as a novel. #460 on this list is "The Complete Stories Volume 1" which includes the short story version (as well as many other all-time-classic stories).

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• riffraff · Mar 28, 2016 · Mentions

  …found in a number of Asimov's anthologies (it was his favorite of his own stories, after all): Nine Tomorrows Opus 100 The Best of Isaac Asimov The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov Robot Dreams The Complete Stories, volume 1 The Asimov Chronicles It is also found in a number of anthologies not consisting entirely of stories by Asimov. There is a mathematical possibility that you're thinking of a story other than…

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• kmaitreys · Jan 18, 2026 · Mentions

  I have it in print. As part of Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories Volume 1 (Published by Harper Voyager)

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• johnfn · Sep 14, 2020 · Mentions

  …Borges) 'The Name of the Wind', 'Infinite Jest', 'The Complete Works', 'The Way of Kings', 'The Wise Man\'s Fear', 'Ficciones', 'A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold', 'The Complete Stories', 'Labyrinths', 'Don\'t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!', 'The Hiding Place', Is it an amazing list? Eh. Is Name of the Wind better than Infinite Jest? Probably not. They're both fantastic…

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