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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... wrong, too, if it makes. say , He says , I make them up , Cal . They are not real people . They are not real happenings . I imagine them , in here . He points to his head . I do not understand and I ask how he makes them up , but he ...
The Final Science Fiction Collection Isaac Asimov. I say, But prison is wrong, too, if it makes people feel bad. Well, says my master, that is why you cannot write mys- teries and crime stories. I think about that. There must be a way to ...
... wrong . " " You just prepare the paper . I'll sign it , " said Mr. Northrop . It was very chilling to think that something might go wrong , but that's how things are . A robot must accept all that human beings decide to do . This time ...
... wrong wine with the wrong roast― " Winthrop looked horrified . " Bite your tongue . A long line of ancestors , collaterals , and in - laws , the in- tertwined and inbred aristocracy of New England , would turn in their graves . By ...
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 |