The Last Question

The Last Question: Short story by Isaac AsimovThe best way to introduce this story by Isaac Asimov is through his own words: This is by far my favorite story of all those I have written. After all, I undertook to tell several trillion years of human history in the space of a short story…. I also undertook another task, but I won’t tell you what that was lest I spoil the story for you. Although there is very little character development or action in the story, the ending is so powerful that almost everyone who reads it remembers it.

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3 thoughts on “The Last Question”

  1. Makes me wonder if people on Mars did just that, till Mars was no more & who knows maybe Thay were the ones who destroyed the dinosaurs. Food for thought. The last book in the Bible might even be an account of what happened.7 headed horses could be deformity… A computer knows only what we feed it. Combining it all together is the reason it is smarter. Miles & miles of computer.???? No men or no man is the same. English-????

    1. There’s miles and miles of files pretty files of your forefather’s fruit, and no, to suit our Great computer, You’re magnetic ink.

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