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This has a similar flavor to Arthur C. Clarke's 9 Billion Names of God https://archive.org/details/ninebillionnames00clar https://archive.org/details/ninebilli

• riffraff 4y ago
  ah-ha, I came here to see if someone else had mentioned this one, it's also one of my favourites. But I would also bring up "Answer", by Frederic Brown[0], which is another take on the theme. [0] https://archive.ph/jsRx9 https://archive.ph/jsRx9
• noneeeed 4y ago
  Love that story. His short stories were fantastic, I read the complete collection again during the first lockdown (and Rendevous with Rama got me through my bout of covid). 9 Billion Names of God is great. I found it funny how he could predict so much about the future, except for many aspects of social change. That's not unique to him, many authors have struggled with that. I loved the image of an observatory on the far side of the moon which had a typing pool full of (obviously female) secretaries, it felt simultaneously futuristric and retro.