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"The Answer" was originally published in the December 1959 issue of Fantastic Universe. "The Answer" is a science fiction short story by American writer H. Beam Piper.It is not a part of either Piper’s Terro-Human Future History series nor his Paratime series.
Writing for Popzara, Trent McGee described it as "a modern fable [that] may be one of the best short stories King has ever published" and as "almost a reworking on the story of Job". [11] Bev Vincent described "The Answer Man" as "a beautiful and poignant story that shows how a skilled writer can encapsulate a rich life in a mere fifty pages". [1]
The short story "Answer" (1954) is thought to be the earliest representation of the "Yes, now there is a God" science fiction trope of a supercomputer that releases itself from human control. [8] [9] The story was originally published in Angels and Spaceships and the entire collection was later re-published as Star Shine for paperback adaptation.
The Last Answer" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the January 1980 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, [1] and reprinted in the collections The Winds of Change and Other Stories (1983), The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986), and Robot Dreams (1986).
"The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and in the anthologies in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986), the retrospective Opus 100 (1969), and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete ...
"The Three Questions" is a 1903 short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy as part of the collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales. The story takes the form of a parable, and it concerns a king who wants to find the answers to what he considers the three most important questions in life.
Multivac, however, supplies the answer on its own. After the reprint, another author, Robert Sherman Townes, [citation needed] noticed the climax in the last sentence was very similar to one of his own stories, "Problem for Emmy" (Startling Stories, June 1952), and wrote to Asimov about it. After searching in his library, Asimov did find the ...
A film adaptation of the short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", entitled Black Hearts Bleed Red, was made in 1992 by New York filmmaker Jeri Cain Rossi. The film stars noted New York artist Joe Coleman , [ 27 ] but according to reviewers the film does not depict the story well.