Gold: The Final Science Fiction CollectionHarper Collins, 2009 M03 17 - 420 pages 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 science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large. The first section contains stories that range from the humorous to the profound, at the heart of which is the title story, "Gold," a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything on a chance at immortality: a gamble Asimov himself made -- and won. The second section contains the grand master's ruminations on the SF genre itself. And the final section is comprised of Asimov's thoughts on the craft and writing of science fiction. |
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... story . I tell about people who do different things , and have different things happen to them . I How do you find ... stories . I tell about peo- ple who do wrong things , who hurt other people . I feel very bad when I hear that . I say ...
... stories. I think about that. There must be a way to write stories in which people are not hurt. I would like to do that. I want to be a writer. I want to be a writer very much. My master has three different Writers for writing stories ...
... story? He holds up the paper and smiles. He says, These are just random letters, Cal. This is gib- berish. He does not seem angry. I feel better. I do not know what gibberish is. I say, Is it a story? He says, No, it is not. And it is a ...
... story . I would have to do better . This time I had no apprehen- sion - I know the meaning of " apprehension , ” too — I had no apprehension that he would keep me from using the old Writer . After all , he would not have redesigned me ...
The Final Science Fiction Collection Isaac Asimov. I didn't write a story immediately . I had to think about what to write . I suppose that that is what the master meant when he said you must make up a story . I found it was necessary to ...
Contents
Left to Right | 42 |
Alexander the God | 77 |
Goodbye to Earth | 88 |
Feghoot and the Courts | 99 |
Flying Saucers and Science Fiction | 180 |
The Science Fiction Blowgun | 189 |
The AllHuman Galaxy | 216 |
Science Fiction Series | 228 |
Hints | 316 |
Writing for Young People | 321 |
Names | 327 |
Originality | 333 |
Book Reviews | 339 |
What Writers Go Through | 344 |
Revisions | 350 |
Irony | 356 |
Outsiders Insiders | 246 |
Science Fiction Anthologies | 252 |
Plotting | 283 |
Metaphor | 289 |
Ideas | 295 |
Suspense | 301 |
Serials | 307 |
The Name of Our Field | 312 |
Plagiarism | 362 |
Symbolism | 368 |
Prediction | 374 |
Bestseller | 380 |
Pseudonyms | 386 |
Dialog | 392 |