Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site analog.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!hplabs!analog!kim From: kim@analog.UUCP (Kim Helliwell ) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Ref. Computers in SF Message-ID: <177@analog.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-May-85 11:11:55 EDT Article-I.D.: analog.177 Posted: Thu May 2 11:11:55 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 6-May-85 12:26:20 EDT References: <1808@topaz.ARPA> Organization: Analog Design Tools, Menlo Park, CA. Lines: 18 > From: Richard.G.Turner, PERI-ET, USARI > > The recent query about stories with computers reminded me of one I really > enjoyed several years ago. I don't remember title or author, but it seems > that it was on the line of short-story, novelette, length. > > The story was a series of vignettes taking part at various points in man's > history, starting with the computer era and ending (or re-beginning) after > the universe had run down from entropy. All that was left at that time was a > computer which had evolved to the point that it existed as pure energy. > > Anyone else remember this one? > > rick I don't remember the title (Possibly "Let There Be Light"), but surely this was written by Isaac Asimov, and appears in his short-story collection, _Nine_Tomorrows_.