What is Asimovs last book?
Asimov’s publishers have on more than one occasion published the Good Doctor’s “last” book as a marketing ploy. The six titles most often so-described are: • Asimov Laughs Again (the last book he saw published before his death, published in 1992) • Forward the Foundation (his last Foundation novel, published in 1993) • Frontiers II (his last — to date — essay collection, published in 1993) • I. Asimov: A Memoir (his last autobiographical volume, published in 1994) • Gold (his last — to date — anthology of science fiction stories, published in 1995) • Magic (his last — to date — anthology of fantasy stories, published in 1996) All this, however, does not preclude the possibility of more books by Asimov being published in the future. There are, for example, enough uncollected F&SF science essays for one more collection. Additional volumes could be published in the “Complete Stories” series, as well as other anthologies (e.g., “The Honest-to-goodness Complete Robot Stories Book”). A
