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Title:

Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection (Collection)
 

Authors:

Genres:

Science Fiction
Short Stories

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1995-00-00 Voyager  

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Blurb: 
Gold is Isaac Asimov's first original collection of science fiction in over a decade. It is also his last science fiction collection, one containing all of his uncollected SF stories that have never before appeared in book form.

Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of SF for its practitioners, for its millions of readers, and for the world at large. The stories collected here range from the humorous to the profound, for Asimov was engaged until the end of his days in the work of redefining and expanding the boundaries of the literature he loved, and indeed, helped create.

At the heart of this unique collection is the title story, Gold a moving and revealing drama about a who gambles everything on a chance at immortality - a gamble Asimov himself made. And won.

This collection contains the following:

Part One
The Final Stories

Cal
Left to Right
Frustration
Hallucination
The Instability
Alexander the God
In the Canyon
Good-bye to Earth
Battle-Hymn
Feghoot and the Courts
Fault-Intolerant
Kid Brother
The Nations in Space
The Smile of the Chipper
Gold

Part Two
On Science Fiction

The Longest Voyage
Inventing a Universe
Flying Saucers and Science Fiction
Invasion
The Science Fiction Blowgun
The Robot Chronicles
Golden Age Ahead
The All-Human Galaxy
Psychohistory
Science Fiction Series
Survivors
Nowhere!
Outsiders, Insiders
Science Fiction Anthologies
The Influence of Science Fiction
Women and Science Fiction
Religion and Science Fiction
Time-Travel

Part Three
On Writing Science Fiction

Plotting
Metaphor
Ideas
Suspense
Serials
The Name of Our Fields
Hints
Writing for Young People
Names
Ortiginality
Book Reviews
What Writers Go Through
Revisions
Irony
Plagiarism
Symbolism
Prediction
Best-Sellar
Pseudonyms
Dialog