''Nine Tomorrows'' is a collection of nine

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

and two pieces of comic verse by American writer

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. 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". ''Nine Tomorrows'' has been reprinted several times. The most recent publication appears to be a 1987 Del Rey reissue; .

*" I Just Make Them Up, See!", poem *"

Profession A profession is a field of work that has been successfully '' professionalized''. It can be defined as a disciplined group of individuals, '' professionals'', who adhere to ethical standards and who hold themselves out as, and are accepted b ...

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The Feeling of Power "The Feeling of Power" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the February 1958 issue of ''If (magazine), If: Worlds of Science Fiction'', and was reprinted in the 1959 collection ''Nine Tom ...

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The Dying Night "The Dying Night" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the July 1956 issue of ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', and was reprinted in the collections '' Nine Tomorrows'' (1959), ...

", novelette, part of the ''

Wendell Urth ''Asimov's Mysteries'', published in 1968, is a collection of 14 short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov, almost all of them science fiction mysteries (although, as Asimov admits in the introduction, some are only borderline). The stories w ...

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I'm in Marsport Without Hilda "I'm in Marsport Without Hilda" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the November 1957 issue of ''Venture Science Fiction Magazine'', and was reprinted in the collection '' Nine Tomorrows'' ...

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The Gentle Vultures "The Gentle Vultures" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the December 1957 issue of ''Super-Science Fiction'', and was reprinted in the 1959 collection ''Nine Tomorrows''. The story is ...

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All the Troubles of the World "All the Troubles of the World" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the April 1958 issue of ''Super-Science Fiction'', and was reprinted in the 1959 collection ''Nine Tomorrows''. It is ...

", part of the ''

Multivac Multivac is the name of a fictional supercomputer appearing in over a dozen science fiction stories by American writer Isaac Asimov. Asimov's depiction of Multivac, a mainframe computer accessible by terminal, originally by specialists using mac ...

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Spell My Name with an S "Spell My Name with an S" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the January 1958 (and only) issue of ''Star Science Fiction'' under the title "S as in Zebatinsky", and was reprinted in the ...

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The Last Question "The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. 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 A ...

", loosely part of the ''Multivac'' series *" The Ugly Little Boy", novelette *" Rejection Slips", poem

Reception

Floyd C. Gale ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by a French-Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break into the American market. World Edit ...

rated the collection four+ stars out of five, writing that "few other authors can claim simov'sconsistently high level of excellence" and mentioning "Profession" and "The Ugly Little Boy" as especially good.

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abelard.org - includes the text of "Profession"
Science fiction short story collections by Isaac Asimov 1959 short story collections Doubleday (publisher) books {{1950s-sf-story-collection-stub

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