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For questions about Isaac Asimov, an author of science fiction and popular science. His Robot series introduced the Three Laws of Robotics; he also wrote the Foundation series.

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Asimov short story about nuke going off in 1945

End of Eternity(1955) is a novel with this plot. Asimov originally wrote it as a short story, it was not published at that time, but this original was later released in an anthology called "The Altern …
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Title of short story: God granting immortality to others to find a way to kill himself

I am looking for a short story I read a long time ago. In it, a man dies and finds himself in a dark and featureless afterlife with a disembodied voice that calls itself god. That god reveals that t …
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Title of short story: God granting immortality to others to find a way to kill himself

The story is "The Last Answer" by Isaac Asimov. First published in the January 1980 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, also contained in the collections The Winds of Change and Other Stories ( …
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