![]() ![]() ![]() Then, too, it has had the strangest effect on my readers. This sort of thing endears any story to any writer. See this quote I stole from Wikipedia: Why is it my favorite? For one thing I got the idea all at once and didn't have to fiddle with it and I wrote it in white-heat and scarcely had to change a word. But then, science fiction has never been timid about thinking big.Īsimov claimed “The Last Question” was his favorite story he ever wrote. ![]() Asimov was known for his ego, and he assumes our species is just as egotistical. Hell, “The Last Question” is the most hubric statement ever made about mankind. And what a whopper! No one has ever claimed to have caught a bigger fish. Isaac Asimov was obviously aiming to tell the tallest tall tale he could imagine when he wrote “ The Last Question” for the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly. Story #28 of 107: “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov Group Read 27: The Big Book of Science Fiction ![]()
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