Gold

by Isaac Asimov

  What Writers Go Through copyright © 1981 by Nightfall, Inc.

  Revisions copyright © 1982 by Nightfall, Inc.

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  Best-seller copyright © 1983 by Nightfall, Inc.

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  About the Author

  To list his honors, as to list his books, would be obsessive. Let it simply be noted that Isaac Asimov was the most famous, most honored, most widely read, and most beloved science fiction author of all time. In his five decades as an author, he wrote more than four hundred books, won every award his readers and colleagues could contrive to give him, and provided pleasure and insight to millions.

  He died in 1992, still at work.

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  copyright

  The characters, incidents, and dialogue in the fiction pieces are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1995 by HarperPrism.

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  GOLD. Copyright © 1995 by Nightfall, Inc./The Estate of Isaac Asimov. Introduction © 2003 by Orson Scott Card. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  1 If others, since, seem to have reached greater heights, it is only because they stand on Wells’s shoulders.

  1 Mr. Heinlein now admits to two or three drafts on his longer works.—Ed.