Isaac Asimov: The Last Question

Re:Isaac Asimov: The Last Question by Arainach on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:13AM (#47805576)

Ted Chiang is the greatest living science fiction short story writer I'm aware of, and ranks highly on my all time list.

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Re:Isaac Asimov: The Last Question by Darkphibre on Friday April 17, 2026 @10:13AM (#47806169)

His short story "Understand" is just... amazing.

It wasn't until I discovered I was on the spectrum that I realized why it clicked so much. >.< I'm masking all the time, running conversational simulations to anticipate the societally-expected response to any given situation (and am high on the IQ spectrum).

https://web.archive.org/web/20140527121332/http://www.infini...

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Re:Isaac Asimov: The Last Question by jperoutek on Friday April 17, 2026 @10:17AM (#47806208)

I second this. Exhalation for some reason really resonates with me.

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Re:Isaac Asimov: The Last Question by Froztnova on Friday April 17, 2026 @11:55AM (#47807305)

Exhalation is really excellent.

It's not really sci-fi but I also really enjoyed The Merchant And The Alchemist's Gate, and the one about the tower of babel, I forget the name at the moment.

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Re:Isaac Asimov: The Last Question by kaiokendev on Friday April 17, 2026 @07:26PM (#47811694)

Tower of Babylon

it's brilliant

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Re:Isaac Asimov: The Last Question by riffraff on Friday April 17, 2026 @01:50PM (#47808611)

I have only read a few stories by Ted Chiang, but I concur, they were all fantastic.

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Re:Isaac Asimov: The Last Question by jcul on Monday April 20, 2026 @09:57AM (#47834443)

Story of your life is one of my favorite short stories.

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