Gold (Asimov) 716766 185385409 2008-01-19T08:09:24Z SmackBot 433328 Date/fix the maintenance tags or gen fixes using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] <!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Goldasimov.jpg |right|thumb|250px|Isaac Asimov's ''Gold: The Final Science Fiction Stories'']] --> '''''Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection''''' is a collection of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s [[short story|stories]] and [[essay]]s. The stories, which comprise its first half, are short pieces which had remained uncollected at the time of Asimov's death. As such, they have been criticized by some as inept or below par&mdash;what the writer himself termed "minor Asimov". Likewise, the [[non-fiction]] pieces in the book's second half are not generally considered among Asimov's most significant output. Nevertheless, ''Gold'' contains some notable works. "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 [[film|cinema]] adaptations of his own stories. ==Contents== ===Part One: The Final Stories=== * "[[Cal (Asimov)|Cal]]" * "[[Left to Right]]" * "[[Frustration (Asimov)|Frustration]]" * "[[Hallucination (short story)|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 (Asimov short story)|Gold]]" ===Part Two: On Science Fiction=== * "The Longest Voyage" * "Inventing the 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" * "Science Fiction Anthologies" * "The Influence of Science Fiction" * "Women and Science Fiction" * "Religion and Science Fiction" * "Time-Travel" ===Part Three: 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" ==References== * Eos paperback edition ([[2003]]) ISBN 0-06-055652-8. ==External links== *{{isfdb title|id=24417|title=Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection }} {{Asimov story collections}} [[Category:1993 books]] [[Category:Science fiction short story collections by Isaac Asimov]] [[nl:Goud (Boek)]] [[ja:ゴールド-黄金]]