The Last Question
 The Last Question is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and was reprinted in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959) The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973) Robot Dreams (1986) the retrospective Opus 100 (1969) and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories Vol. 1.