Isaac Asimov

Gold (eBook, ePUB)

The Final Science Fiction Collection

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007404254
• Artikelnr.: 69236167

Autorenporträt

Isaac Asimov was born in 1920 in Russia and was brought to the USA by his parents three years later. He grew up in Brooklyn and attended Columbia University. After a short spell in the army, he gained a doctorate and worked in academia and chemical research.

Asimov's career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the short story 'Marooned Off Vesta'. Thereafter he became a regular contributor to the leading SF magazines of the day. Asimov wrote hundreds of short stories and novels, including the iconic I, Robot and Foundation. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once.

Apart from his world-famous science fiction, Asimov also wrote highly successful detective mystery stories, a four-volume History of North America, a two-volume Guide to the Bible, a biographical dictionary, encyclopaedias, and textbooks, as well as two volumes of autobiography.

Asimov died in 1992 at the age of 72.