Gold Quotes

“I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth, it is To have a thankless child!”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“I got the word right away. You always get the word. Wherever you are, even on the Moon or in a space settlement, bad news gets to you in seconds. Good news you might miss out on, but bad news never.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“they say faith can move mountains, and I guess it did in this case.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“People always love themselves best. But in a world so interconnected that harm to one is harm to all, the best way of loving one’s self is to love everyone else, too.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“Leslie F. Stone.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“A. R. Long”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“Adventures in Time and Space,”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“(Before the Golden Age,”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“Harlan Ellison”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“Orson Scott Card”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“Pebble in the Sky,”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“Clifford D. Simak.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“Poul Anderson.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“Frederik Pohl.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“Fritz Leiber.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“L. Sprague de Camp.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“Jack Williamson.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“In the first place, we started in the early days of science fiction—not only the Big Three, but others of importance such as Lester del Rey, Poul Anderson, Fred Pohl, Clifford Simak, Ray Bradbury, and even some who died young: Stanley Weinbaum, Henry Kuttner, and Cyril Kornbluth, for instance. In those early days, the magazines paid only one cent a word or less, and there were only magazines. There were no hardcover science fiction publishers, no paperbacks, no Hollywood to speak of.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“On numerous occasions, I have been asked if I “believe” in UFOs. My usual answer is, “I assume that by UFO you mean ‘unidentified flying objects.’ I certainly believe that many people have seen objects in the air or sky that they can’t identify, and those are UFOs. But then, many people can’t identify the planet Venus, or a mirage. If you are asking me whether I believe that some mysterious object reported is a spaceship manned by extraterrestrial beings, then I must say I am very skeptical. But that, you see, is an identified flying object, and that’s not what you’re asking about, is it?”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“The Great Shaver Mystery.”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

“The British science fiction writer Herbert George Wells proceeded to make use of the notion and, in 1898, published The War of the Worlds, the first significant tale of the invasion and attempted conquest of Earth by more advanced intelligences from another world (in this case, Mars). I have always thought that Wells, in addition to wanting to write an exciting story with an unprecedented plot, was also bitterly satirizing Europe. At the time he wrote, Europeans (the British, particularly) had just completed dividing up Africa without any regard for the people living there. Why not show the British how it would feel to have advanced intelligences treat them as callously as they were treating the Africans?”
― Isaac Asimov, Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection