title: The Complete Stories of Isaac Asimov (v. 2)
author:  Isaac Asimov 
description: The second volume in an extraordinary collection published shortly after the author's death. In these twenty-three stories, Asimov's vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas. The definitive collection of short fiction by Isaac Asimov, supreme master of the science fiction genre continues with Volume Two of the Complete Stories. The Good Doctor was always ahead of his time and his work stands today as the clearest expression of our collective hopes and fears for the future. But the ever-expanding popularity of his stories with young and old readers alike is explained by their wit, zest and human interest. Within this volume are stories often voted among the best science fiction stories of all time. In these stories Asimov's vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas that are more relevant today than ever before.
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  Asimov's Future History
  
  
  **Volume IX**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All stories copyright Isaac Asimov and the Estate of Isaac Asimov, unless
  otherwise noted below.
  
  
  All other stories copyright by the respective authors listed below.
  
  
  
  
  
  **Chimera** -By _Mark W. Tiedemann_. First published as _Asimov's: Chimera,
  April, 2001_
  
  
  **Aurora** -By _Mark W. Tiedemann_. First published as _Asimov's: Aurora,
  September, 2002_
  
  
  
  
  
  This ![img1.jpg](images/img1.jpg) ePub edition v1.0 by Dead^Man March, 2011
  
  
  Layout and design by Dead^Man
  
  
  Cover art " _Veiwing Platform_ " by _Rich35211_ of DeviantArt
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  _Future History_ inlay " _Summer days_ " by _Talros_ of DeviantArt
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  Cover design by Dead^Man
  
  
  Chronology of events in Isaac Asimov's positronic robot and Foundation
  stories, compiled by Johnny Pez.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Table of Contents**
  
  
  [Copyright](003.html#a0)
  
  
  
  
  
  **3621 AD** [Chimera](005.html#a58)
  
  
  [Prologue]