| Title |
Author |
Notes |
| Preface |
Ray Bradbury |
A brief overview and praise of Asimov's work |
| The Nonmetallic Isaac or It’s a Wonderful Life |
Ben Bova |
A look at what the world would be like if Asimov never wrote science fact |
| Strip-Runner |
Pamela Sargent |
Set between The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn; Elijah Baley makes a brief appearance and Ben Baley is mentioned |
| The Asenion Solution |
Robert Silverberg |
A collection of in-jokes; uses Asimov's fictional thiotimoline substance and ties into The Gods Themselves |
| Murder in the Urth Degree |
Edward Wellen |
A Wendell Urth story |
| Trantor Falls |
Harry Turtledove |
Set between the two halves of Foundation and Empire; details the Great Sack of Trantor |
| Dilemma |
Connie Willis |
Story about an old Asimov in the 21st century meeting robots modeled after his characters; also appeared in Robot Dreams |
| Maureen Birnbaum After Dark |
George Alec Effinger |
A retelling of Nightfall from the view of his Maureen Birnbaum character; also collected in Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson |
| Balance |
Mike Resnick |
A brief story about Susan Calvin |
| The Present Eternal |
Barry N. Malzberg |
A sequel to The Dead Past |
| PAPPI |
Sheila Finch |
An anti-robotics industrialist attempts to assassinate Mayor Stephen Byerly; Susan Calvin also appears |
| The Reunion at the Mile-High |
Frederik Pohl |
An alternate history where Asimov was drafted into a biological weapons program during World War II and never became an author |
| Plato's Cave |
Poul Anderson |
Set between Runaround and Stephen Byerly's election to World Coordinator; Susan Calvin, Alfred Lanning, Greg Powell and Mike Donovan appear; Byerly and Speedy are mentioned |
| Foundation’s Conscience |
George Zebrowski |
Set in 1056 FE after the creation of the Second Empire (may conflict with Foundation's Edge/Foundation and Earth, as Gaia is not apparent) |
| Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie |
Robert Sheckley |
Concerns intelligent robots and the Three Laws of Robotics, but appears to be independent of the Robot/Empire/Foundation universe |
| The Overheard Conversation |
Edward D. Hoch |
A Black Widowers story |
| Blot |
Hal Clement |
Plot includes positronic robots, the Three Laws of Robotics, and U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, but also includes the discovery of alien life, which contradicts Asimov's stories |
| The Fourth Law of Robotics |
Harry Harrison |
A story about an older Mike Donovan and Susan Calvin's grandniece solving a crime with the help of the Stainless Steel Rat |
| The Originist |
Orson Scott Card |
Set just after the first part of Foundation, deals with Hari Seldon's establishment of the Second Foundation |
| A Word or Two from Janet |
Janet Asimov |
Janet Asimov describes what it's like to be Isaac's wife |
| Fifty Years |
Isaac Asimov |
Isaac Asimov compares his life and career to the greats of science and literature |
