Isaac Asimov bibliography (alphabetical)

The goal of this article is to present a complete bibliography of the books written or edited by Isaac Asimov, arranged alphabetically.^[1] Since Asimov is one of the most prolific authors of all time, and since he engaged in many collaborations with other authors, this is a substantial research project. This list may not yet be complete.

The total number of books listed here is over 500. Asimov died in 1992 at the age of 72 years. A small number of these books were published posthumously.

See also Isaac Asimov book series bibliography, Isaac Asimov short stories bibliography.

A

• ABC's of Ecology
• ABC's of Space
• ABC's of the Earth
• ABC's of the Ocean
• Adding a Dimension
• All the Troubles of the World
• Alpha Centauri, the Nearest Star
• The Alternate Asimovs
• Amazing Stories: Sixty Years of the Best Science Fiction^[2]
• Ancient Astronomy
• Animals of the Bible
• The Annotated 'Gulliver's Travels'
• The Asimov Chronicles
• Asimov Laughs Again
• Asimov on Astronomy
• Asimov on Chemistry
• Asimov on Numbers
• Asimov on Physics
• Asimov on Science
• Asimov on Science Fiction
• Asimov's Annotated 'Don Juan'
• Asimov's Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
• Asimov's Annotated 'Paradise Lost'
• Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
• Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 2D Ed.
• Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 3D Ed.
• Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery
• Asimov's Chronology of the World
• Asimov's Galaxy: Reflections on Science Fiction
• Asimov's Guide to Halley's Comet
• Asimov's Guide to Science
• Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Volume One
• Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Volume Two
• Asimov's Guide to the Bible, Volume One
• Asimov's Guide to the Bible, Volume Two
• Asimov's Mysteries
• Asimov's New Guide to Science
• Asimov's Sherlockian Limericks
• The Asteroids
• Astronomy Today
• Atlantis
• Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos
• Authorised Murder (Originally published as Murder at the ABA)
• Azazel (1988)

B

• Baker's Dozen: Thirteen Short Fantasy Novels
• Baker's Dozen: Thirteen Short Science Fiction Novels
• Banquets of the Black Widowers
• Before the Golden Age
• The Beginning and the End
• Beginnings: The Story of Origins, of Mankind, Life, the Earth, the Universe
• The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov
• The Best New Thing
• The Best of Isaac Asimov
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
• The Big Apple Mysteries
• Biochemistry and Human Metabolism
• The Birth and Death of Stars
• The Birth of the United States, 1763–1816
• Breakthroughs in Science
• Building Blocks of the Universe
• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories

C

The first installment of Asimov's The Caves of Steel took the cover of the October 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller

• Cal See also Robot series (Asimov)
• Casebook of the Black Widowers
• Catastrophes!
• Caught in the Organ Draft
• The Caves of Steel (1954), See also Robot series (Asimov)
• Change!
• The Chemicals of Life
• Chemistry and Human Health
• Child of Time (with Robert Silverberg, UK title of The Ugly Little Boy)
• A Choice of Catastrophes^[3][4]
• Christopher Columbus: Navigator to the New World
• The Clock We Live on
• The Collapsing Universe
• Colonizing the Planets and Stars
• Comets
• Comets and Meteors
• The Complete Robot (1982), See also Robot series (Asimov)
• The Complete Science Fair Handbook
• The Complete Stories Vol. 1
• The Complete Stories Vol. 2
• Computer Crimes and Capers
• Constantinople, the Forgotten Empire
• Cosmic Critiques: How and Why Ten Science Fiction Stories Work
• Cosmic Knights
• Counting the Eons
• Creations
• The Currents of Space
• Curses

D

• The Dangers of Intelligence and Other Essays
• The Dark Ages
• David Starr, Space Ranger (as Paul French)
• The Death Dealers (later republished as A Whiff of Death)
• Devils
• Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs?
• The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries
• The Double Planet
• Dragon Tales
• The Dream, Benjamin's Dream & Benjamin's Bicentennial Blast

E

• The Early Asimov
• Earth Is Room Enough
• Earth: Our Crowded Spaceship
• Earth: Our Home Base
• The Earth's Moon
• An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule
• The Edge of Tomorrow
• The Egyptians
• Election Day 2084: Science Fiction Stories on the Politics of the Future (edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg)
• Electricity and Man
• Encounters
• The End of Eternity
• The Ends of the Earth
• Environments Out There
• The Evitable Conflict
• The Exploding Suns
• Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos
• Extraterrestrial Civilizations
• Eyes on the Universe

F

• Fact and Fancy
• Faeries
• Familiar Poems, Annotated
• Fantastic Creatures
• Fantastic Reading: Stories and Activities for Grades 5–8
• Fantastic Voyage
• Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain
• Far as Human Eye Could See
• Ferdinand Magellan: Opening the Door to World Exploration
• Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales
• Flying Saucers
• Forward the Foundation
• Foundation
• Foundation and Earth
• Foundation and Empire
• Foundation's Edge
• Franchise
• From Earth to Heaven
• Frontiers II: More Recent Discoveries about Life, Earth, Space, and the Universe
• Frontiers: New Discoveries about Man and His Planet, Outer Space and the Universe (essays originally published in The Los Angeles Times)
• The Future I (with Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh)
• The Future in Question
• The Future in Space
• Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000 (1986) (based on En L'An 2000)

G

• Galaxies
• The Genetic Code
• The Genetic Effects of Radiation
• Ghosts
• Giants
• Ginn Science Program (Advanced A, Advanced B, Intermediate A, Intermediate B, Intermediate C)
• The Gods Themselves
• Gold
• The Golden Door: The United States from 1865 to 1918
• Good Taste
• Great Ideas of Science
• Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Great Scientists
• The Greeks: A Great Adventure
• A Grossery of Limericks (with John Ciardi)

H

• Hallucination Orbit
• Have You Seen These?
• The Heavenly Host
• Henry Hudson: Arctic Explorer and North American Adventurer
• The History of Biology (chart)
• The History of Chemistry (chart)
• The History of Mathematics (chart)
• The History of Physics
• Hound Dunnit
• How Did We Find Out about (Our) Genes?
• How Did We Find Out about Antarctica?
• How Did We Find Out about Atoms?
• How Did We Find Out about Black Holes?
• How Did We Find Out about Blood?
• How Did We Find Out about Coal?
• How Did We Find Out about Comets?
• How Did We Find Out about Computers?
• How Did We Find Out about Dinosaurs?
• How Did We Find Out about DNA?
• How Did We Find Out about Earthquakes?
• How Did We Find Out about Electricity?
• How Did We Find Out about Energy?
• How Did We Find Out about Germs?
• How Did We Find Out about Lasers?
• How Did We Find Out about Life in the Deep Sea?
• How Did We Find Out about Microwaves?
• How Did We Find Out about Neptune?
• How Did We Find Out about Nuclear Power?
• How Did We Find Out about Numbers?
• How Did We Find Out about Oil?
• How Did We Find Out about Our Human Roots?
• How Did We Find Out about Outer Space?
• How Did We Find Out about Photosynthesis?
• How Did We Find Out about Pluto?
• How Did We Find Out about Robots?
• How Did We Find Out about Solar Power?
• How Did We Find Out about Sunshine?
• How Did We Find Out about Superconductivity?
• How Did We Find Out about the Atmosphere?
• How Did We Find Out about the Beginnings of Life?
• How Did We Find Out about the Brain?
• How Did We Find Out about the Speed of Light?
• How Did We Find Out about the Universe?
• How Did We Find Out about Vitamins
• How Did We Find Out about Volcanoes?
• How Did We Find Out the Earth Is Round?
• How to Enjoy Writing: A Book of Aid and Comfort
• How Was the Universe Born?
• The Hugo Winners
• The Hugo Winners Volume Two
• The Hugo Winners Volume Three
• The Hugo Winners Volume Four
• The Hugo Winners Volume Five
• The Human Body
• The Human Brain

I

• I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay (with Harlan Ellison)
• I, Robot (1950), See also Robot series (Asimov)
• I. Asimov: A Memoir
• In Joy Still Felt
• In Memory Yet Green
• In the Beginning
• Inside the Atom
• Inside the Atom (3rd revised edition)
• The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
• Intergalactic Empires
• Invasions
• Is Anyone There?
• Is Our Planet Warming Up?
• Is There Life on Other Planets?
• Isaac Asimov Presents from Harding to Hiroshima
• Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz
• Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz 2
• Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz 3
• Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz 4
• Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Best Crime Stories of the 19th Century
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Best Fantasy of the 19th Century
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Best Horror and Supernatural Stories of the 19th Century
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Best Science Fiction Firsts
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction: 36 Stories and Novellas
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Second Series
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Third Series
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Fourth Series
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Fifth Series
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Sixth Series
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 1 (1939)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 2 (1940)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 3 (1941)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 4 (1942)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 5 (1943)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 (1944)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 7 (1945)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 8 (1946)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 9 (1947)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 (1948)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 (1949)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 (1950)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 13 (1951)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 (1952)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 15 (1953)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 16 (1954)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 17 (1955)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 (1956)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 19 (1957)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 20 (1958)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 21 (1959)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 22 (1960)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 23 (1961)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 24 (1962)
• Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 25 (1963)
• Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts
• Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations
• Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space
• Isaac Asimov's Limericks for Children
• Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction and Fantasy Story-A-Month 1989 Calendar
• Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury
• Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor
• It's Such a Beautiful Day

J

• Jupiter, the Largest Planet
• Jupiter, the Spotted Giant

K

• The Key Word and Other Mysteries
• Kinetics of the Reaction Inactivation of Tyrosinase During Its Catalysis of the Aerobic Oxidation of Catechol (Asimov's doctoral dissertation)
• The Kingdom of the Sun (1960, history of astronomy)
• The Kite that Won the Revolution

L

• The Land of Canaan
• The Last Man on Earth
• Laughing Space, with Janet Jeppson
• Lecherous Limericks
• The Left Hand of the Electron
• Library of the Universe (32 astronomy volumes, ages 9–12)
  • Ancient Astronomy
  • The Asteroids
  • Astronomy Today
  • The Birth and Death of Stars
  • Colonizing the Planets and Stars
  • Comets and Meteors
  • Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs?
  • Earth: Our Home Base
  • The Earth's Moon
  • The Future in Space
  • How Was The Universe Born?
  • Is There Life on Other Planets?
  • Jupiter: The Spotted Giant
  • Mars: Our Mysterious Neighbor
  • Mercury: The Quick Planet
  • Mythology and the Universe
  • Neptune: The Farthest Giant
  • Our Milky Way and Other Galaxies
  • Our Solar System
  • Piloted Space Flights
  • Pluto: A Double Planet?
  • Quasars, Pulsars and Black Holes
  • Rockets, Probes, and Satellites
  • Saturn: The Ringed Beauty
  • Science Fiction, Science Fact
  • Space Garbage
  • The Space Spotter's Guide
  • The Sun
  • Unidentified Flying Objects
  • Uranus: The Sideways Planet
  • Venus: A Shrouded Mystery
  • The World's Space Programs
• Life and Energy
• Life and Time
• Light
• Limericks: Too Gross, with John Ciardi
• Little Treasury of Dinosaurs (5 Vols.)
• Living in the Future
• The Living River (or The Bloodstream: River Of Life)
• Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury, as Paul French
• Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter, (as Paul French)
• Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus, (as Paul French)
• Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids, (as Paul French)
• Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn, (as Paul French)

M

• Machines That Think
• Magic: The Final Fantasy Collection
• Magical Wishes
• The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction
• The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction
• The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction
• The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction
• The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction
• The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction
• The March of the Millennia: A Key to Looking at History
• Mars, the Red Planet
• Mars: Our Mysterious Neighbor
• Mars
• The Martian Way and Other Stories
• Measure of the Universe
• Mercury: The Quick Planet
• Microcosmic Tales
• Miniature Mysteries
• Monsters
• The Moon
• More Lecherous Limericks
• More Tales of the Black Widowers
• More Words of Science
• Murder at the ABA
• Murder on the Menu
• Mythical Beasties
• Mythology and the Universe

N

• The Naked Sun (1957), See also Robot series (Asimov)
• The Near East: 10,000 Years of History, The
• Nebula Award Stories Eight
• Nemesis
• Neptune: The Farthest Giant
• The Neutrino
• The New Hugo Winners, Vol. 2
• The New Hugo Winners
• The New Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
• Nightfall (with Robert Silverberg)
• Nightfall and Other Stories
• Nine Tomorrows
• The Noble Gases, The
• Norby and the Court Jester
• Norby and the Invaders
• Norby and the Lost Princess
• Norby and the Oldest Dragon
• Norby and the Queen's Necklace
• Norby and Yobo's Great Adventure
• Norby Down to Earth
• Norby Finds a Villain
• Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot
• Norby's Other Secret

O

• Of Matters Great and Small
• Of Time and Space and Other Things
• One Hundred Great Fantasy Short-Short Stories
• One Hundred Great Science Fiction Short-Short Stories
• Only a Trillion
• Opus 100
• Opus 200
• Opus 300
• Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
• Our Angry Earth
• Our Federal Union: The United States from 1816 to 1865
• Our Milky Way and Other Galaxies
• Our Solar System
• Our World in Space
• Out of the Everywhere

P

• Past, Present, and Future
• Pebble in the Sky
• Photosynthesis
• Piloted Space Flights
• The Planet That Wasn't
• Planets for Man (with Stephen H. Dole), Originally Habitable Planets for man.
• Please Explain
• Pluto: A Double Planet?
• The Positronic Man (1992, with Robert Silverberg), See also Robot series (Asimov)
• Prelude to Foundation
• Purr-Fect Crime
• Puzzles of the Black Widowers

Q

• Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
• Quasars, Pulsars, and Black Holes
• Quick and Easy Math

R

• Races and People
• Raintree Reading, Series 1
• Raintree Reading, Series 2
• Raintree Reading, Series 3
• Realm of Algebra
• Realm of Measure
• Realm of Numbers
• The Relativity of Wrong
• The Rest of the Robots
• The Return of the Black Widowers
• The Road to Infinity
• Robbie
• Robot Dreams (1986), See also Robot series (Asimov)
• Robot Visions
• Robots
• Robots and Empire (1985), See also Robot series (Asimov)
• Robots from Asimov's
• The Robots of Dawn (1983), See also Robot series (Asimov)
• Robots: Machines in Man's Image
• Rockets, Probes, and Satellites
• The Roman Empire
• The Roman Republic
• The Roving Mind

S

• Sally
• Satellites in Outer Space
• Saturn and Beyond
• Saturn: The Ringed Beauty
• Science Fiction A to Z
• Science Fiction by Asimov
• The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book
• Science Fiction, Science Fact
• The Science Fictional Olympics (edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
• The Science Fictional Solar System (edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
• Science Past—Science Future
• Science, Numbers and I
• The Search for the Elements
• Second Foundation
• The Secret of the Universe
• Senior Sleuths: A Large Print Anthology of Mysteries and Puzzlers
• The Sensuous Dirty Old Man
• Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction
• The Shaping of England
• The Shaping of France
• The Shaping of North America: From Earliest Times to 1763
• Sherlock Holmes through Time and Space
• A Short History of Biology
• A Short History of Chemistry
• Show Business is Murder
• The Solar System and Back
• The Solar System
• Space Garbage
• Space Mail
• Space Mail, Volume II
• Space Shuttles
• The Space Spotter's Guide
• Speculations
• Spells
• The Sport of Crime
• The Stars in Their Courses
• The Stars, Like Dust
• Stars
• Starships
• Still More Lecherous Limericks
• The Story of Ruth 1972
• The Subatomic Monster
• The Sun
• The Sun Shines Bright
• Supermen
• The Science Fictional Solar System

T

• Tales of the Black Widowers
• Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries
• Think about Space: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?
• The Thirteen Crimes of Science Fiction
• Thirteen Horrors of Halloween
• Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines
• Three by Asimov
• Through a Glass, Clearly
• Tin Stars
• To the Ends of the Universe
• Today and Tomorrow And--
• Tomorrow's Children
• Towards Tomorrow
• The Tragedy of the Moon
• TV: 2000
• The Twelve Crimes of Christmas
• The Twelve Frights of Christmas
• Twentieth Century Discovery
• The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and One Hundred Other Science Essays

U

• The Ugly Little Boy (with Robert Silverberg)
• Understanding Physics, Volume One: Motion, Sound and Heat
• Understanding Physics, Volume Two: Light, Magnetism and Electricity
• Understanding Physics, Volume Three: The Electron, Proton, and Neutron
• Unidentified Flying Objects
• The Union Club Mysteries
• The Universe From Flat Earth to Quasar
• Uranus: The Sideways Planet

V

• Venus, Near Neighbor of the Sun
• Venus: A Shrouded Mystery
• View from a Height
• Views of the Universe
• Visions of Fantasy: Tales from the Masters
• Visions of the Universe

W

• The Wellsprings of Life
• What Causes Acid Rain?
• What Is a Shooting Star?
• What Is an Eclipse?
• What Makes the Sun Shine?
• What's Happening to the Ozone Layer?
• Where Do We Go from Here?
• Where Does Garbage Go?
• A Whiff of Death (originally published as The Death Dealers)
• Who Done It?
• Why Are Animals Endangered?
• Why Are Some Beaches Oily?
• Why Are the Rain Forests Vanishing?
• Why Are Whales Vanishing?
• Why Do Stars Twinkle?
• Why Do We Have Different Seasons?
• Why Does Litter Cause Problems?
• Why Does the Moon Change Shape?
• Why Is the Air Dirty?
• The Winds of Change and Other Stories
• Witches
• Wizards
• Words from History
• Words from the Exodus
• Words from the Myths
• Words in Genesis
• Words of Science and the History behind Them
• Words on the Map
• The World of Carbon
• The World of Nitrogen
• The World's Space Programs
• Worlds within Worlds

X

• 'X' Stands for Unknown

Y

• Young Extraterrestrials
• Young Ghosts
• Young Monsters
• Young Mutants
• Young Star Travelers
• Young Witches and Warlocks
• Yours, Isaac Asimov
• Youth (Asimov short story)

References

External links

• Works by or about Isaac Asimov in libraries (WorldCat catalog)