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For those looking for an introduction, here are some of my favorite short stories. The Profession: http://www.inf.ufpr.br/renato/profession.html http://www.inf

For those looking for an introduction, here are some of my favorite short stories. The Profession: http://www.inf.ufpr.br/renato/profession.html http://www.inf.ufpr.br/renato/profession.html The Last Question: http://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf http://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf The Last Answer: http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/ http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/ Nightfall: http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall.htm http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall.h...

copperheart 11y ago
The Last Question is surely one of Asimov's greatest short stories. I'll never forget reading it as a young teen and being astonished by the imaginative technological evolution of Multivac.
- sohkamyung 11y ago
  You may also enjoy this: "The Last Question" converted into comic form [1] [1] https://imgur.com/gallery/9KWrH https://imgur.com/gallery/9KWrH
tzs 11y ago
Here are a couple that raise some interesting ideas on a couple topics that often come up here on HN. The Dead Past: http://www.rednovels.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27323.html http://www.rednovels.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27323.html "In a Good Cause-": http://www.rednovels.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27354.html http://www.rednovels.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27354.html The first concerns issues of privacy, surveillance, and government control of information flow. It also was the starting point for an article by Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on how the scope of the 4th Amendment is determined by what society considers acceptable and how we are greatly reducing that scope by the way we are voluntarily giving up so much privacy online [1]. (Read the Asimov story before reading Kozinski's article, because Kozinski opens with major spoilers for the story). The second story concerns idealism vs. pragmatism, pacifism vs. militarism. For those new to Asimov, don't try to infer Asimov's beliefs from either of these stories. He personally would have been on the sides that ultimately were shown to be wrong in both of these stories. I believe I read somewhere that in the case of "In a Good Cause-" he deliberately set out to write a story whose point was opposite of his beliefs. [1] http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/privacy-paradox/dead-past http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/privacy-paradox/dead...
- sohkamyung 11y ago
  Thank you for that link.

copperheart 11y ago

The Last Question is surely one of Asimov's greatest short stories. I'll never forget reading it as a young teen and being astonished by the imaginative technological evolution of Multivac.

sohkamyung 11y ago
You may also enjoy this: "The Last Question" converted into comic form [1] [1] https://imgur.com/gallery/9KWrH https://imgur.com/gallery/9KWrH

tzs 11y ago

Here are a couple that raise some interesting ideas on a couple topics that often come up here on HN. The Dead Past: http://www.rednovels.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27323.html http://www.rednovels.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27323.html "In a Good Cause-": http://www.rednovels.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27354.html http://www.rednovels.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27354.html The first concerns issues of privacy, surveillance, and government control of information flow. It also was the starting point for an article by Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on how the scope of the 4th Amendment is determined by what society considers acceptable and how we are greatly reducing that scope by the way we are voluntarily giving up so much privacy online [1]. (Read the Asimov story before reading Kozinski's article, because Kozinski opens with major spoilers for the story). The second story concerns idealism vs. pragmatism, pacifism vs. militarism. For those new to Asimov, don't try to infer Asimov's beliefs from either of these stories. He personally would have been on the sides that ultimately were shown to be wrong in both of these stories. I believe I read somewhere that in the case of "In a Good Cause-" he deliberately set out to write a story whose point was opposite of his beliefs. [1] http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/privacy-paradox/dead-past http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/privacy-paradox/dead...

sohkamyung 11y ago
Thank you for that link.