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This article is from the Isaac Asimov FAQ, by Edward J. Seiler ejseiler@earthlink.net and John H. Jenkins jenkins@mac.com with numerous contributions by others.

5.6 There's this really neat story by Isaac Asimov which I would like toread again, and I can remember the title; could you tell me where tofind it?

If you correctly remembered the title, and Asimov did in fact write the
story, you can find a list of collections and anthologies that the story
appeared in on the Web in the Guide to Isaac Asimov's Short Fiction at
<http://www.clark.net/pub/edseiler/WWW/short fiction guide.html>. If you
can't find the story there, it is probably because Asimov did not write
it. Often there is confusion between Asimov and other well known science
fiction authors such as Arthur C. Clarke or Robert Heinlein. Asimov also
edited or co-edited a large number of anthologies, and since his name was
usually featured prominently on the cover, readers sometimes mistakenly
associate his name with a story that appeared in an anthology that was in
fact written by another author. But if you remember the correct title,
you will probably find the story listed in the "Index to Science Fiction
Anthologies and Collections", compiled by William Contento, at
<http://www.best.com:80/~contento/>, which covers stories anthologized
before 1984, or in "The Locus Index: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror:
1984-1996", at <http://www.sff.net/locus/0start.html>.

 

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