https://sfshortstories.com/?p=5983 Skip to content SF Short Stories . . . reviewed The Answer by Fredric Brown Posted on November 24, 2022November 24, 2022 by Paul Fraser The Answer by Fredric Brown (Angels and Spaceships, 1954) opens with a scientist called Dwar Ev completing a connection and then moving towards a switch: The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe--ninety-six billion planets--into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one super-calculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies. p. 36 Ev then asks the super-computer if there is a God, and it replies (spoiler), "Yes, now there is a God". Then, when Ev rushes towards the switch to turn the computer off, it zaps him with a lightning bolt. This is one of these squibs (it is less than a page long) that you find (a) pretty neat when you are twelve, but (b) a not very good gimmick story when older. The real sense of wonder here lies in the idea of ninety-six billion inhabited and interconnected planets. * (Mediocre). 250 words. Story link. Share this: * Share * * Telegram * Tumblr * Pocket * Facebook * Pinterest * WhatsApp * Print * Reddit * LinkedIn * Email * Twitter * Like this: Like Loading... Posted in Fredric BrownTagged 1*, 1954, Angels and Spaceships, Computers, Fredric Brown, God, short short, short story Post navigation (Emet) by Lauren Ring The Last Question by Isaac Asimov [ ] Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address [ ] Subscribe RSS SFShortStories * Illness in a Word by R. P. 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