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They don't remember the title but when they describe the story it is invariably 'The Last Question'. Frequently someone writes to ask me if I can give them the name of a story, which they think I may have written, and tell them where to find it. 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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