Gold (Asimov book)
1995 collection of stories and essays by Isaac Asimov
Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection is a 1995 collection of stories and essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories, which comprise the volume's first half, are short pieces which had remained uncollected at the time of the author's death. "Cal" describes a robot that wishes to write, and the title story "Gold" expresses both Asimov's admiration of King Lear and his thoughts on cinema adaptations of his own stories. The story "Gold" won a Hugo Award.[1]
Contents
Part One: The Final Stories
Short stories:
- "Cal" (1990), novelette, Robot series
- "Left to Right" (1987), Probability Zero series
- "Frustration" (1991)
- "Hallucination" (1985), novelette, Multivac series
- "The Instability" (1989)
- "Alexander the God" (1989)
- "In the Canyon" (1990)
- "Good-bye to Earth" (1989)
- "Battle-Hymn" (1995)
- "Feghoot and the Courts" (1986)
- "Fault-Intolerant" (1990)
- "Kid Brother" (1990), Robot series
- "The Nations in Space" (1995)
- "The Smile of the Chipper" (1988)
- "Gold" (1991), novelette
Part Two: On Science Fiction
Essays:
- "The Longest Voyage" (1983)
- "Inventing the Universe" (1990)
- "Flying Saucers and Science Fiction" (1982)
- "Invasion" (1990)
- "The Science Fiction Blowgun" (1978)
- "The Robot Chronicles" (1990)
- "Golden Age Ahead" (1979)
- "The All-Human Galaxy" (1983)
- "Psychohistory" (1988)
- "Science Fiction Series" (1986)
- "Survivors" (1987)
- "Nowhere!" (1983)
- "Outsiders, Insiders" (1986)
- "Science Fiction Anthologies" (1981)
- "The Influence of Science Fiction" (1981)
- "Women and Science Fiction" (1983)
- "Religion and Science Fiction" (1984)
- "Time-Travel" (1984)
Part Three: On Writing Science Fiction
Essays:
- "Plotting" (1989)
- "Metaphor" (1989)
- "Ideas" (1990)
- "Serials" (1980)
- "The Name of Our Field" (1978)
- "Hints" (1979)
- "Writing for Young People" (1986)
- "Names" (1984)
- "Originality" (1986)
- "Book Reviews" (1981)
- "What Writers Go Through" (1981)
- "Revisions" (1982)
- "Irony" (1984)
- "Plagiarism" (1985)
- "Symbolism" (1985)
- "Prediction" (1989)
- "Best-Seller" (1983)
- "Pseudonyms" (1984)
- "Dialog" (1985)
References
- ^ "1992 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
External links
- Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Eos paperback edition (2003) ISBN 0-06-055652-8.
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Short-story collections by Isaac Asimov
- I, Robot (1950)
- The Martian Way and Other Stories (1955)
- Earth Is Room Enough (1957)
- Nine Tomorrows (1959)
- The Rest of the Robots (1964)
- Through a Glass, Clearly (1967)
- Asimov's Mysteries (1968)
- Nightfall and Other Stories (1969)
- The Early Asimov (1972)
- The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973)
- Tales of the Black Widowers (1974)
- Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975)
- The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976)
- More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976)
- The Key Word and Other Mysteries (1977)
- Casebook of the Black Widowers (1980)
- The Complete Robot (1982)
- The Winds of Change and Other Stories (1983)
- The Union Club Mysteries (1983)
- Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984)
- The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries (1985)
- The Edge of Tomorrow (1985)
- The Alternate Asimovs (1986)
- The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov (1986)
- The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986)
- Science Fiction by Asimov (1986)
- Robot Dreams (1986)
- Azazel (1988)
- The Asimov Chronicles (1989)
- Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1990)
- Robot Visions (1990)
- The Complete Stories, Volume 1 (1990)
- The Complete Stories, Volume 2 (1992)
- Gold (1995)
- Magic (1996)
- The Return of the Black Widowers (2003)
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