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GOLD: The Final Science Fiction Collection.
de Asimov, Isaac
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket./like
- ISBN 10
- 006105206X
- ISBN 13
- 9780061052064
- Librería
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New York:: HarperPrism / Harper and Collins, , (1995). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Published posthumously, this is the last science fiction collection from this great author. It contains 15 stories previously unpublished in book form and "centers around the powerful tale of a writer who gambles everything on a chance at immortality" Also includes many previously uncollected essays about the craft of science fiction. 345 pp.
Sinopsis
With a new introduction by New York Times-bestselling author Orson Scott CardHe invented science fiction. And in this final and crowning achievement of a career spanning 50 years, Isaac Asimov shares short stories ranging from the humorous to the profound, ruminations on the science fiction genre itself, and thoughts on the craft and writing of science fiction.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 science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large.The first section contains stories that range from the humorous to the profound, at the heart of which 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. The second section contains the grand master's ruminations on the SF genre itself. And the final section is comprised of Asimov's thoughts on the craft and writing of science fiction.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 80163
- Título
- GOLD: The Final Science Fiction Collection.
- Autor
- Asimov, Isaac
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover first edition -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- like
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 006105206X
- ISBN 13
- 9780061052064
- Editorial
- HarperPrism / Harper and Collins,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- (1995)
- Palabras clave
- short stories, essays,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Science Fiction and Fantasy;
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