Nine tomorrows
by Isaac Asimov · first published 1959
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Nine Tomorrows is a collection of nine short stories and two pieces of comic verse by American writer Isaac Asimov. The pieces were all originally published in magazines between 1956 and 1958, with the exception of the closing poem, "Rejection Slips", which was original to the collection. The book was first published in the United States in 1959 and in the UK in 1963. It includes two of Asimov's favorite stories, "The Last Question" and "The Ugly Little Boy". Contents "I Just Make Them Up, See!" "Profession" "The Feeling of Power" "The Dying Night" (part of the Wendell Urth series) "I'
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If you like short stories I recommend Nine Tomorrows by Issac Asimov & The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
on “What are your favorite sci-fi and fantasy books?” ↗From wikipedia: "It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and was reprinted in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), the retrospective Opus 100 (1969), and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1" I personally read it in Robot Dreams, which is a great…
on “Isaac Asimov: The Last Answer” ↗…story by Asimov, but I can't remember the title... The story is probably "The Last Question". It can be found in a number of Asimov's anthologies (it was his favorite of his own stories, after all): Nine Tomorrows Opus 100 The Best of Isaac Asimov The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov Robot Dreams The Complete Stories, volume 1 The Asimov Chronicles It is also found in a number of anthologies not consisting…
on “A List of Isaac Asimov's Books” ↗…you, George, who support the advancing technology of fifteen hundred worlds. We can’t allow ourselves to miss one recruit to that number or waste our efforts on one member who doesn’t measure up." From Nine Tomorrows, as a final year student I remember reading this line from the short story prior to exams and relaxing for just a moment. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Tomorrows
on ““Profession” (1957)” ↗