Isaac Asimov

Gold

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The final collection of fiction and essays by the most celebrated science fiction author of all time—including the Hugo Award–winning story “Gold.”
Isaac Asimov is widely considered both the inventor of science fiction as well as the genre’s greatest practitioner. This wide-ranging collection is the final and crowning achievement of his fifty-year career as a writer. It includes an introduction by the renowned science fiction author Orson Scott Card.
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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380 printed pages
Original publication
2009
Publication year
2009
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  • Martin Zdravkovhas quoted4 years ago
    Then I ask, When a master feels good, is it because something in him works more easily?

    My master nods and says, Cal, you are smarter than you look
  • Martin Zdravkovhas quoted4 years ago
    That one—that’s the real award. This one”—he raised his own trophy a little—“this is just because I’m not dead yet.”
  • Martin Zdravkovhas quoted4 years ago
    But even when he was (in my opinion) wrong, he was never wrong for no reason. Everything was analyzed, its causes and ramifications imagined or observed, and alternatives considered.

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