Isaac Asimov published hundreds of anthologies over his career, but the vast majority of these were 'co-edited' by Martin H. Greenberg and sometimes others. Virtually all were theme anthologies, and many focused on specific audience (e.g. young readers) or were constrained by source (e.g. from his eponymous magazine). But early in his career he did two substantial solo volumes,
Tomorrow's Children in 1966 and
Where Do We Go From Here? in 1971. Both books have thoughtful introductions; the first also provides anecdotal introductions to the stories, a pattern that continued through most of the other volumes grouped on this page.
Among others that followed was
Before the Golden Age, his only other solo anthology (whose contents were not pre-selected, as in anthologies of awards winners); that book is included on the
Decade Bests page.
Of all the others a small selection is included here: two 1979 books that appeared in hardcover; two "Future" anthologies from 1980 and 1981 in paperback (one of stories whose titles are questions; the second of stories told in first person); a huge 1982 hardcover of stories on 50 great SF themes, arranged alphabetically by theme; a 1983 hardcover about origins, with co-editor George Zebrowski and including nonfiction and Biblical selections; and a 1984 hardcover about robots and computers with co-editor Patricia S. Warrick.
Asimov includes his own stories 13 times across these nine books. After that the most reprinted authors are Arthur C. Clarke (6), Philip K. Dick, Robert Sheckley, and Clifford D. Simak (4 each).
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Tomorrow's Children, Isaac Asimov, ed. (Doubleday, 1966)
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Where Do We Go from Here?, Isaac Asimov, ed. (Doubleday, 1971)
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The Science Fictional Solar System, Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, eds. (Harper & Row, 1979)
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The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, eds. (Doubleday, 1979)
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The Future in Question, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph Olander, eds. (Fawcett, 1980)
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The Future I, Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander, eds. (Fawcett, 1981)
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Science Fiction A to Z, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, eds. (Houghton Mifflin, 1982)
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Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science, Isaac Asimov, George Zebrowski & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (Crown, 1983)
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Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers, Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (Holt Rinehart Winston, 1984)
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Combined Contents by Author and Title
Brian W. Aldiss
Let's Be Frank
(Science-Fantasy #23 1957)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Non-Isotropic
(Galileo #7 1978)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
Who Can Replace a Man?
(Infinity Science Fiction Jun 1958)
-- The Future in Question
Poul Anderson
Barnacle Bull
(Astounding Sep 1960)
-- The Science Fictional Solar System
The Last Monster
(Super Science Stories Aug 1951)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Sam Hall
(Astounding Aug 1953)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Piers Anthony
In the Jaws of Danger
(If Nov 1967)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Christopher Anvil
The Troublemaker
(Astounding Jul 1960)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Isaac Asimov
The Bicentennial Man
(Stellar, 1976)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Evidence
(Astounding Sep 1946)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
The Evitable Conflict
(Astounding Jun 1950)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
The Last Question
(Science Fiction Quarterly Nov 1956)
-- The Future in Question
Pate de Foie Gras
(Astounding Sep 1956)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
The Red Queen's Race
(Astounding Jan 1949)
-- The Future I
Robbie
(Super Science Stories Sep 1940)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Runaround
(Astounding Mar 1942)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
The Singing Bell
(F&SF Jan 1955)
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
The Ugly Little Boy
(Galaxy Sep 1958)
-- Tomorrow's Children
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
Waterclap
(If Apr 1970)
-- The Science Fictional Solar System
Raymond E. Banks
Transstar
(Galaxy Jun 1960)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Harry Bates
Farewell to the Master
(Astounding Oct 1940)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Stephen Vincent Benét
The Place of the Gods
(The Saturday Evening Post Jul 31 1937)
-- Tomorrow's Children
Gregory Benford
Exposures
(IASFM Jul 6 1981)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
Alfred Bester
The Pi Man
(Star Light, Star Bright, 1959)
-- The Future I
Will You Wait?
(F&SF Mar 1959)
-- The Future in Question
Ambrose Bierce
Moxon's Master
(San Francisco Examiner Apr 16 1899)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Jerome Bixby
The Draw
(Amazing Mar 1954)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
The Holes Around Mars
(Galaxy Jan 1954)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
It's a Good Life
(Star Science Fiction Stories, 1953)
-- Tomorrow's Children
James Blish
Bridge
(Astounding Feb 1952)
-- The Science Fictional Solar System
Surface Tension
(Galaxy Aug 1952)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Who's in Charge Here?
(F&SF May 1962)
-- The Future in Question
J. F. Bone
Triggerman
(Astounding Dec 1958)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Ray Bradbury
All Summer in a Day
(F&SF Mar 1954)
-- Tomorrow's Children
There Will Come Soft Rains
(Colliers May 6 1950)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Fredric Brown
Answer
(Angels and Spaceships, 1954)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
John Brunner
Judas
(Dangerous Visions, 1967)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
John W. Campbell, Jr.
Night
(Astounding Oct 1935)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Who Goes There?
(Astounding)
-- The Future in Question
Terry Carr
Hop-Friend
(F&SF Nov 1962)
-- The Science Fictional Solar System
Rejoice, Rejoice, We Have No Choice
(Future Kin, 1974)
-- The Future I
A. Bertram Chandler
The Cage
(F&SF Jun 1957)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Arthur C. Clarke
The Deep Range
(Star Science Fiction Stories, 1954)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Dial "F" for Frankenstein
(Playboy Jan 1965)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
History Lesson
(Startling Stories May 1949)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Saturn Rising
(F&SF Mar 1961)
-- The Science Fictional Solar System
Transit of Earth
(Playboy Jan 1971)
-- The Future I
Who's There?
(New Worlds Nov 1958)
-- The Future in Question
Hal Clement
Dust Rag
(Astounding Sep 1956)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Proof
(Astounding Jun 1942)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Mark Clifton
Star, Bright
(Galaxy Jul 1952)
-- Tomorrow's Children
What Have I Done?
(Astounding May 1952)
-- The Future in Question
Theodore R. Cogswell
The Cabbage Patch
(Perspective Fll 1952)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Lee Correy
The Easy Way Out
(Analog Apr 1966)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Avram Davidson
The Ceaseless Stone
(New Venture Sep 1975 (+1))
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
L. Sprague de Camp
A Gun for Dinosaur
(Galaxy Mar 1956)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Charles V. De Vet
Second Game
(by CVDV & Katherine MacLean)
(Astounding Mar 1958)
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
Lester del Rey
The Day Is Done
(Astounding May 1939)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Though Dreamers Die
(Astounding Feb 1944)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
A. J. Deutsch
A Subway Named Mobius
(Astounding Dec 1950)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Philip K. Dick
The Electric Ant
(F&SF Oct 1969)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
The Father-Thing
(F&SF Dec 1954)
-- Tomorrow's Children
If There Were No Benny Cemoli
(Galaxy Dec 1963)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
War Game
(Galaxy Dec 1959)
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
Gordon R. Dickson
Black Charlie
(Galaxy Apr 1954)
-- The Future I
The Man from Earth
(Galaxy Jun 1964)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
The Monkey Wrench
(Astounding Aug 1951)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Suzette Haden Elgin
For the Sake of Grace
(F&SF May 1969)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Harlan Ellison
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
(If Mar 1967)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Life Hutch
(If Apr 1956)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Howard Fast
The Large Ant
(Fantastic Universe Feb 1960)
-- The Future I
Charles Fontenay
The Silk and the Song
(F&SF Jul 1956)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Alan Dean Foster
Why Johnny Can't Speed
(Galaxy Sep 1971)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Gertrude Friedberg
The Wayward Cravat
-- Tomorrow's Children
Raymond Z. Gallun
Seeds of the Dusk
(Astounding Jun 1938)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
Randall Garrett
The Ipswich Phial
(Analog Dec 1976)
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
Tom Godwin
Too Soon to Die
(Venture Mar 1957)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
H. L. Gold
The Man with English
(Star Science Fiction Stories, 1953)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Ron Goulart
What's Become of Screwloose?
(If Jul 1970)
-- The Future in Question
James Gunn
The Cave of Night
(Galaxy Feb 1955)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Kindergarten
(Galaxy Apr 1970)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
Open Warfare
(Galaxy May 1954)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Edmond Hamilton
What's It Like Out There?
(Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec 1952)
-- The Future in Question
Harry Harrison
A Criminal Act
(Analog Jan 1967)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
War with the Robots
(Science Fiction Adventures (UK) #27 1962)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Robert A. Heinlein
"And He Built a Crooked House"
(Astounding Feb 1941)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
The Menace from Earth
(F&SF Aug 1957)
-- Tomorrow's Children
Zenna Henderson
Gilead
(F&SF Aug 1954)
-- Tomorrow's Children
Hindu Rg-veda
The Song of Creation
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
Evan Hunter
Dream Damsel
(Fantastic Universe Oct 1954)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Will F. Jenkins
The Little Terror
(The Saturday Evening Post Aug 22 1953)
-- Tomorrow's Children
J. O. Jeppson
Positively the Last Pact withthe Devil?
(F&SF Mar 1976)
-- The Future I
Norman Kagan
The Mathenauts
(If Jul 1964)
-- The Future I
Damon Knight
Cabin Boy
(Galaxy Sep 1951)
-- Tomorrow's Children
An Eye for a What?
(Galaxy Mar 1957)
-- The Future in Question
Henry Kuttner
When the Bough Breaks
(by HK & C. L. Moore)
(Astounding Nov 1944)
-- Tomorrow's Children
Keith Laumer
Prototaph
(Analog Mar 1966)
-- The Future I
William M. Lee
Junior Achievement
(Analog Jul 1962)
-- Tomorrow's Children
Fritz Leiber
A Pail of Air
(Galaxy Dec 1951)
-- Tomorrow's Children
-- Science Fiction A to Z
The Snowbank Orbit
(If Sep 1962)
-- The Science Fictional Solar System
Murray Leinster
A Logic Named Joe
(Astounding Mar 1946)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Stanislaw Lem
Project Genesis
(New Yorker Nov 2 1981)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
Duncan Lunan
The Comet, the Cairn and the Capsule
(Worlds of If Jul/Aug 1972)
-- The Science Fictional Solar System
Katherine MacLean
Fear Hound
(Analog May 1968)
-- The Future I
Second Game
(by Charles V. De Vet & KM)
(Astounding Mar 1958)
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
The Snowball Effect
(Galaxy Sep 1952)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Barry N. Malzberg
Closed Sicilian
(F&SF Nov 1973)
-- The Future I
Laurence Manning
The Living Galaxy
(Wonder Stories Sep 1934)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
George R. R. Martin
With Morning Comes Mistfall
(Analog May 1973)
-- The Future I
Richard Matheson
A Touch of Grapefruit
(Star Science Fiction Stories, 1959)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Anne McCaffrey
The Ship Who Sang
(F&SF Apr 1961)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Richard McKenna
Mine Own Ways
(F&SF Feb 1960)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
The Secret Place
(Orbit 1, 1966)
-- The Future I
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
I Made You
(Astounding Mar 1954)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
C. L. Moore
When the Bough Breaks
(by Henry Kuttner & CLM)
(Astounding Nov 1944)
-- Tomorrow's Children
William Morrison
Country Doctor
(Star Science Fiction Stories, 1953)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Larry Niven
ARM
(Epoch, 1975)
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
Neutron Star
(If Oct 1966)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Wait It Out
(The Future Unbound Program Book 1968)
-- The Science Fictional Solar System
William F. Nolan
The Underdweller
(Fantastic Universe Aug 1957)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Andre Norton
All Cats Are Gray
(Fantastic Universe Aug/Sep 1953)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Alan E. Nourse
Brightside Crossing
(Galaxy Jan 1956)
-- The Science Fictional Solar System
Chad Oliver
The Mother of Necessity
(Another Kind, 1955)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Transfusion
(Astounding Jun 1959)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
Alexei Panshin
Down to the Worlds of Men
(If Jul 1963)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
How Can We Sink When We Can Fly?
(Four Futures, 1971)
-- The Future I
One Sunday in Neptune
(Tomorrow's Worlds, 1969)
-- The Science Fictional Solar System
Richard Peck
Gantlet
(Orbit 10, 1972)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Rog Phillips
Game Preserve
(If Oct 1957)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
H. Beam Piper
Omnilingual
(Astounding Feb 1957)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Frederik Pohl
I Plinglot, Who You?
(Galaxy Feb 1959)
-- The Future in Question
Tom Reamy
The Detweiler Boy
(F&SF Apr 1977)
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
Milton A. Rothman
Heavy Planet
(Astounding Aug 1939)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Eric Frank Russell
First Person Singular
(Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct 1950)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
Top Secret
(Astounding Aug 1956)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Fred Saberhagen
The Long Way Home
(Galaxy Jun 1961)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
William Sambrot
Creature of the Snows
(The Saturday Evening Post Oct 29 1960)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
James H. Schmitz
Novice
(Analog Jun 1962)
-- Tomorrow's Children
J. W. Schutz
The Santa Claus Problem
(Analog Jan 1979)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Michael Shaara
2066: Election Day
(Astounding Dec 1956)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Jack Sharkey
No Harm Done
(Fantastic Jul 1961)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Bob Shaw
Skirmish on a Summer Morning
(Cosmic Kaleidoscope, 1976)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Robert Sheckley
The Accountant
(F&SF Jul 1954)
-- Tomorrow's Children
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
(Playboy Aug 1969)
-- The Future in Question
The Odor of Thought
(Star Science Fiction Stories, 1953)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Prospector's Special
(Galaxy Dec 1959)
-- The Science Fictional Solar System
Robert Silverberg
Ishmael in Love
(F&SF Jul 1970)
-- The Future I
The Macauley Circuit
(Fantastic Universe Aug 1956)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Why?
(Science Fiction Stories Nov 1957)
-- The Future in Question
Clifford D. Simak
The Creator
(Marvel Tales Mar/Apr 1935)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
A Death in the House
(Galaxy Oct 1959)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
How-2
(Galaxy Nov 1954)
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
No Life of Their Own
(Galaxy Aug 1959)
-- Tomorrow's Children
Cordwainer Smith
The Game of Rat and Dragon
(Galaxy Oct 1955)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
George H. Smith
The Great Secret
(Super Science Fiction Oct 1959)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Margaret St. Clair
Child of Void
(Super Science Stories Nov 1949)
-- Tomorrow's Children
L. J. Stecher
Man in a Quandary
(Galaxy Jul 1958)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Theodore Sturgeon
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
(Dangerous Visions, 1967)
-- The Future in Question
Saucer of Loneliness
(Galaxy Feb 1953)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
William F. Temple
The Green Car
(Science-Fantasy #23 1957)
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
William Tenn
Bernie the Faust
(Playboy Nov 1963)
-- The Future I
Time in Advance
(Galaxy Aug 1956)
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
"Will You Walk a Little Faster"
(Marvel Science Fiction Nov 1951)
-- The Future in Question
Walter S. Tevis
The Big Bounce
(Galaxy Feb 1958)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Theodore Thomas
The Doctor
(Orbit 2, 1967)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
The Weather on the Sun
(Orbit 8, 1970)
-- The Science Fictional Solar System
James Tiptree, Jr.
Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
(Aurora: Beyond Equality, 1976)
-- The Future in Question
Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death
(The Alien Condition, 1973)
-- The Future I
Wilson Tucker
Time Exposures
(Universe 1, 1971)
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
Steven Utley
Custer's Last Jump
(by SU & Howard Waldrop)
(Universe 6, 1976)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
A. E. van Vogt
Fulfillment
(New Tales of Space and Time, 1951)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
The Seesaw
(Astounding Jul 1941)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
Jack Vance
Coup de Grace
(Super Science Fiction Feb 1958)
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
John Varley
Air Raid
(IASFM Spr 1977)
-- The Future I
Harl Vincent
Rex
(Astounding Jun 1934)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Vernor Vinge
Long Shot
(Analog Aug 1972)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Howard Waldrop
Custer's Last Jump
(by Steven Utley & HW)
(Universe 6, 1976)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
F. L. Wallace
End as a World
(Galaxy Sep 1955)
-- The Future I
Ian Watson
A Letter from God
(Destinies Win 1981)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
Stanley G. Weinbaum
A Martian Odyssey
(Wonder Stories Jul 1934)
-- Where Do We Go from Here?
Edward Wellen
Mouthpiece
(F&SF Feb 1974)
-- The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction
H. G. Wells
In the Abyss
(Pearson's Magazine Aug 1896)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
Kate Wilhelm
Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?
(Quark, 1971)
-- The Future in Question
Robert Moore Williams
Robots Return
(Astounding Sep 1938)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Gene Wolfe
Alien Stones
(Orbit 11, 1972)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
John Wyndham
The Lost Machine
(Amazing Apr 1932)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Robert F. Young
Nikita Eisenhower Jones
(F&SF Aug 1960)
-- The Science Fictional Solar System
One Love Have I
(If Apr 1955)
-- Science Fiction A to Z
George Zebrowski
Heathen God
(F&SF Jan 1971)
-- Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science
Starcrossed
(Eros in Orbit, 1973)
-- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots & Computers
Roger Zelazny
A Museum Piece
(Fantastic Jun 1963)
-- Science Fiction A to Z