Gold · The Final Science Fiction Collection

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 transcendant 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 for the first time 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. And there is more. For at the heart of this extraordinary compendium 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.

Contents:

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

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, Insider

Science Fiction Anthologies

The Influence of Science Fiction

Women and Science Fiction

Religion and Science Fiction

Time-Travel

On Writing Science Fiction

Plotting

Metaphor

Ideas

Suspense

Serials

The Name of Our Field

Hints

Writing for Young People

Names

Originality

Book Reviews

What Writers Go Through

Revisions

Irony

Plagiarism

Symbolism

Prediction

Best-Seller

Pseudonyms

Dialog