After seeing a planetarium adaptation of his work, Asimov 'privately' concluded that the story was his best science fiction yet written. In conceiving Multivac, Asimov was extrapolating the trend towards centralization that characterized computation technology planning in the 1950s to an ultimate centrally-managed global computer. The story overlaps science fiction, theology, and philosophy. Through successive generations, humanity questions Multivac on the subject of entropy. While he also considered it one of his best works, “The Last Question” was Asimov's favorite short story of his own authorship, and is one of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and was anthologized 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 Stories, Vol. ' The Last Question' is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.

He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards.Not to be confused with The Last Answer. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. His first novel, Pebble in the Sky, was published in 1950. He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939.

Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. He taught himself to read at the age of five. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. Asimov was born sometime between Octoand Januin Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers.

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