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ISAAC ASIMOV
GOLD
The Final Science Fiction Collection
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART ONE: THE FINAL STORIES CAL LEFT TO RIGHT FRUSTRATION 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
PART TWO: ON SCIENCE FICTION THE LONGEST VOYAGE INVENTING A 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 NOWHERE! OUTSIDERS, INSIDERS 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 ORIGlNALITY BOOK REVIEWS WHAT WRITERS GO THROUGH REVISIONS IRONY PLAGIARISM SYMBOLISM PREDICTION BEST-SELLER PSEUDONYMS DIALOG
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART ONE: THE FINAL STORIES
CAL
I AM A ROBOT. MY NAME IS CAL. I have a registration number. It is CL-123X, but my master calls me Cal. The X in my registration number means I am a special robot for my master. He asked for me and helped design me. He has a lot of money. He is a writer. I am not a very complicated robot. My master doesn’t want a complicated robot. He just wants someone to pick up after him, to run his printer, stack his disks, and like that. He says I don’t give him any backtalk and just do what I am told. He says that is good. He has people come in to help him, sometimes. They give him backtalk. Sometimes they do not do what they are told. He gets very angry and red in the face. Then he tells me to do something, and I do it. He says, thank goodness, you do as you are told. Of course, I do as I am told. What else can I do? I want to make my master feel good. I can tell when my master feels good. His mouth stretches and he calls that a smile. He pats me on the shoulder and says, Good, Cal. Good. I like it when he says, Good, Cal. Good. I say to my master, Thank you. You make me feel good, too. And he laughs. I like when he laughs because it means he feels good, but it is a queer sound. I don’t understand how he makes it or why. I ask him and he says to me that he laughs when something is funny. I ask him if what I said is funny. He says, Yes, it is. It is funny because I say I feel good. He says robots do not really feel good. He says only huma ............
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