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Fredric Brown

First published September 1954
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

A supercomputer powered by many worlds is asked a question; that question becomes self-fulfilling.

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Publications (63)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1954 Angels and Spaceships E. P. Dutton Collection 36
February 1955 Angels and Spaceships Dutton / SFBC Collection 23
September 1955 Angels and Spaceships Gollancz Collection 36
February 1956 Star Shine Bantam Books Collection 15
June 1958 Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories Faber and Faber Anthology 222
December 1959 Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories Faber and Faber Anthology 222
September 1960 Best SF Three The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) Anthology 222
1962 Angels and Spaceships Four Square Books Collection 26
1962 Best SF Three Faber and Faber Anthology 222
1962 Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories Faber and Faber Anthology 222
1963 Best SF Three Faber and Faber Anthology 222
1966 Best SF Three: Science Fiction Stories Faber and Faber Anthology 222
1967 Best SF Three Faber and Faber Anthology 222
1968 The Stars and Under Faber and Faber Anthology 109
October 1968 The Metal Smile Belmont Books Anthology 14
October 1968 The Metal Smile Belmont Books Anthology 14
1969 The Stars and Under Faber and Faber Anthology 109
August 1974 Space Opera Futura Anthology 323
September 1974 The Metal Smile Belmont Tower Anthology 14
1975 The Stars and Under Faber and Faber Anthology 109
1975 Space Opera Book Club Associates Anthology 323
1975 Space Opera Futura Anthology 323
1977 Inside Information: Computers in Fiction Addison-Wesley Anthology 80
January 1977 The Best of Fredric Brown Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Collection 112
May 1977 The Best of Fredric Brown Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 121
August 1977 Computers, Computers, Computers: In Fiction and in Verse Thomas Nelson Anthology 13|13.1
September 1980 Microcosmic Tales Taplinger Anthology 110
August 1982 Science Fiction A to Z: A Dictionary of the Great S.F. Themes Houghton Mifflin Anthology 76
October 1982 Thinking Machines Raintree Publishers Anthology 27
1983 Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines!: An Anthology of Robot and Computer Stories Franklin Watts Anthology [149]
1984 Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots and Computers Allen Lane Anthology 491
January 1984 Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots and Computers Holt, Rinehart and Winston Anthology 491
September 1984 Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, September-October 1984 TZ Publications, Inc. MAGAZINE 77
1985 Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots and Computers Penguin Books Anthology 491
May 1987 The Great SF Stories #16 (1954) DAW Books Anthology 349
May 1987 The Great SF Stories #16 (1954) DAW Books Anthology 349
May 1988 The Monster Book of Monsters Xanadu Anthology 65
August 1988 The Monster Book of Monsters Bonanza Books Anthology 65
1990 Science fiction Langenscheidt-Longman Anthology
March 1991 Science Fiction Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 135
1992 War with the Robots: 28 of the Best Short Stories by the Greatest Names in 20th Century Science Fiction Wings Books Anthology 473
June 1992 Microcosmic Tales DAW Books Anthology 112
February 2001 From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 555
October 2001 From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press / SFBC Collection 555
July 2002 From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 555
January 2005 The World Turned Upside Down Baen Books Anthology 429
January 2005 The World Turned Upside Down Baen Books Anthology 17
January 2005 The World Turned Upside Down Baen Books Anthology
February 2005 The World Turned Upside Down Baen Books / SFBC Anthology
June 2006 The World Turned Upside Down Baen Books Anthology 429
May 2007 The 1634: The Baltic War Disk Baen Books Omnibus |17.19
May 2007 The 1634: The Baltic War Disk Baen Books Omnibus |17.19
July 2007 The Best of Jim Baen's Universe 2006 Disk Baen Books Omnibus |3.19
November 2007 A Science Fiction Omnibus Penguin Books Anthology 184
November 2007 A Science Fiction Omnibus Penguin Books Anthology |12
March 2008 The David Drake When the Tide Rises Disk Baen Books Omnibus |17.19
October 2010 The 1635: The Eastern Front Disk Baen Books Omnibus |19.19
June 2011 From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown NESFA Press Collection 555
July 2013 Drabblecast B-Sides, #24 The Drabblecast MAGAZINE
November 2013 The Fredric Brown Megapack: 33 Classic Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy Wildside Press Collection
July 2014 The Fredric Brown Megapack: 33 Classic Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy Wildside Press Collection
January 2017 If This Goes Wrong... Baen Books Anthology 175
December 2019 Visions, Issue Two: Visions of Humanity, 2019 Atelier Triay MAGAZINE