Isaac Asimov's Short Fiction: Larry Stories, Miscellaneous Mysteries, Poems and Lyrics

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The Guide to Asimov's Short Fiction

Larry Stories

Sarah Tops

Title When First Published: Try Sarah Tops
First Published In: Boys' Life, February 1975, p. 24
Collection:

• The Key Word and Other Mysteries
  

Anthologies:

• Building Reading Skills, Carol Steben, ed. McDougal, Littel, 1980
  
• Pursuits, Olive Stafford Niles, L. Jane Christensen, and Ruth S. Cohen, eds. Scott Foresman and Co., 1984, pp. 236-239
  

Santa Claus Gets a Coin

First Published In: Boys' Life, December 1975, p. 31
Collection:

• The Key Word and Other Mysteries
  

A Case of Need

First Published In: Young World Magazine (Saturday Evening Post Company), October 1975, pp. 4-7
Collection:

• The Key Word and Other Mysteries
  

The Thirteenth Day of Christmas

First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1977, pp. 33-36
Collection:

• The Key Word and Other Mysteries
  
• Opus 200
  
• The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• The Twelve Crimes of Christmas, Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, and Isaac Asimov, eds. Avon, 1981, pp. 251-254
  

The Key Word

First Published In: The Key Word and Other Mysteries, 1977, pp. 7-16
Collection:

• The Key Word and Other Mysteries
  
• The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov
  

The Disappearing Man

First Published In: Boys' Life, June 1978, p. 31
Collection:

• The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries
  

Anthologies:

• The Bank Street Book of Mystery, Howard Zimmerman, Seymour Reit, and Barbara Brenner, eds. Pocket Books (pbk.), September 1989, pp. 106-119
  

Lucky Seven

First Published In: Boys' Life, September 1982, pp. 36-?
Collection:

• The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries
  

The Christmas Solution

First Published In: Boys' Life, December 1983, pp. 26-?
Collection:

• The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries
  

The Twins

First Published In: The Disappearing Man and Other Stories, 1985, pp. 31-40
Collection:

• The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries
  

The Man in the Park

First Published In: The Disappearing Man and Other Stories, 1985, pp. 41-50
Collection:

• The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries
  

Zip Code

First Published In: Boys' Life, September 1986
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Miscellaneous Mysteries

A Problem of Numbers

Title When First Published: As Chemist to Chemist
First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 1970, pp. 88-92
Reprinted In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November/December 1978, pp. 65-69
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Anthology, Volume 4, Fall/Winter 1980, pp. 108-112
Collection:

• The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Asimov Chronicles
  

Anthologies:

• Ellery Queen's Headliners, Ellery Queen, ed. World Pub. Co., 1971
  
• Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction, George H. Scithers, ed. Dial Press, 1980
  

The Little Things

First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 1975, pp. 17-19
Collection:

• The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• Miniature Mysteries: 100 Malicious Little Mysteries, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander, eds. Taplinger, 1981, pp. 3-6
  
• Best Detective Stories of the Year 1976, 30th Annual Collection, 1976
  
• The Bank Street Book of Mystery, Howard Zimmerman, Seymour Reit, and Barbara Brenner, eds. Pocket Books (pbk.), September 1989, pp. 38-49
  

Halloween

First Published In: American Way, October 1975
Collection:

• The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov
  

Anthologies:

• The Thirteen Horrors of Halloween, Isaac Asimov, Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Avon, 1983, pp. 15-19
  

Nothing Might Happen

First Published In: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, December 1983
Collection:

• The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov
  

Poems and Lyrics

The Foundation of S F Success

First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1954, p. 69
Collection:

• Earth is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Anthologies:

• Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fourth Series, Anthony Boucher and J. F. McComas, eds. Little, Brown, 1955, pp. 249-250
  
• The Eureka Years, Annette P. McComas, ed. Bantam (pbk), 1982
  

How to Succeed at Science Fiction Without Really Trying

First Published In: The Original Science Fiction Stories, November 1956, pp. 110-111
Collection:

The Author's Ordeal

First Published In: Science Fiction Quarterly, May 1957, pp. 34-36
Collection:

• Earth Is Room Enough
  
• The Far Ends of Time and Earth (omnibus edition)
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

Tale of the Pioneer

First Published In: Future Science Fiction, Summer 1957, pp. 76-78
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Oh, That Lost Sense of Wonder

First Published In: The Original Science Fiction Stories, January 1958, p. 103
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

I Just Make Them Up, See!

First Published In: The Magazine Of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1958, pp. 129-130
Collection:

• Nine Tomorrows
  
• The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

The Thunder-Thieves

Title When First Published: It's All How You Look at It
First Published In: Future Science Fiction, October 1958
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Anthologies:

SF:'59 The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy, Judith Merill, ed. Gnome, 1959

Rejection Slips

First Published In: Nine Tomorrows
Collection:

• Nine Tomorrows
  
• Science Fiction by Asimov
  
• The Complete Stories, Volume 1
  

The Prime of Life

Title Before Publication: I'm Still in the Prime of Life, You Rotten Kid
First Published In: The Magazine Of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1966, p. 56
Collection:

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
  

Science Fiction Convention

First Published In: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Fall 1977, p. 35
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

The One Thing Lacking

First Published In: Laughing Space,1982
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Anthologies:

• Laughing Space, Isaac Asimov and J. O. Jeppson, eds. Houghton Mifflin, 1982, p. 291

A Fuller Explanation of Original Sin

First Published In: Laughing Space,1982
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Note: Written with Janet Asimov
Anthologies:

• Laughing Space, Isaac Asimov and J. O. Jeppson, eds. Houghton Mifflin, 1982, p. 3

Amanita Phalloides

First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Detectiverse), May 1984
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Arrow Poison

First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Detectiverse), May 1984
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Arsenic

First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Detectiverse), May 1984
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Belladonna

First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Detectiverse), June 1984
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Botulism

First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Detectiverse), June 1984
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Curare

First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Detectiverse), June 1984
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Phosgene

First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Detectiverse), July 1984
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Potassium Cyanide

First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Detectiverse), July 1984
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Triply Unique

First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Detectiverse), July 1984
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Snake Venom

First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Detectiverse), August 1984
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

Strychnine

First Published In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Detectiverse), August 1984
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

The Gilbert and Sullivan Enthususiasts

First Published In: The Gilbert and Sullivan Lexicon, by Harry Benford, Sarah Jennings Press, 1991, pp. xi-xii
Collection:

• DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY COLLECTION
  

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