Gold - Softcover

Asimov, Isaac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006482023 ISBN 13: 9780006482024

Publisher: HarperVoyager, 1996

Synopsis

The last Isaac Asimov science fiction collection which contains all of his previously uncollected stories.

Gold is Isaac Asimov's last science fiction collection‚ one containing all of his uncollected SF stories that had never before appeared in book form. Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-five year career of science fiction's transcendent 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.

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Review:

‘Isaac Asimov was one of the great explainers of the age...It will never be known how many practicing scientists today, in how many countries, owe their initial inspiration to a book, article, or short story by Isaac Asimov’
Carl Sagan

‘Asimov displayed one of the most dynamic imaginations in science fiction’
Daily Telegraph

‘Asimov’s career was one of the most formidable in science fiction’
The Times

From the Back Cover:

'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 transcendent 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 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.

At the heart of this unique collection 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.

“Asimov’s career was one of the most formidable in science fiction”
THE TIMES

“A talent of galactic proportions”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“Asimov displayed one of the most dynamic imaginations in science fiction”
DAILY TELEGRAPH

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperVoyager
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0006482023
• ISBN 13: 9780006482024
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400