Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection, (Paperback)

from TeaTimeCoder

I liked the short stories but the random collection of musings, introductions to other books and anything else that the publisher seems to have had lying around was a bit of a hit and miss.

from JohnFair

Published four years after Asimov's death, this book contains a number of previously unpublished stories and articles about the art of writing science fiction and the field of science fiction. Some of the stories are very good - particularly the title piece, but some are slightly less impressive ...

from mrgan

Asimov is a treasure, god bless him, but his fiction is often little more than a competently written one-liner. I attempted re-reading this whole collection and I got about half way through before remembering that it's so slight, there's a reason I only remember a bit of it now.

from hopeevey

On the one hand, I very much enjoy Dr. Asimov's stories. All of the fiction in this volume was new to me, and a joy to read. That made up about 30% of the book. A collection of essays, mostly introductions to anthologies and editorials from his magazine, filled the remaining 2/3 of the volume. Th...

from SR510

I rather liked the first story ("Cal"), about a robot who wants to be a writer, and the title story has some interesting ideas about a future sensory medium and may give some indication of Asimov's feelings about The Gods Themselves. The rest of the stories are okay, but nothing special. That's r...