Many people consider this the best short story they've ever read.
Asimov wrote, "This is by far my favorite story* of all those I have written. It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story."
I don't consider it "the best" — but that's only because I've read so many fantastic short stories I find it impossible to choose just one as ruling them all.
Nevertheless, I reread this one every ten years or so and have since I first encountered it when I was a kid in Milwaukee in the late 50s/early 60s.
nuf sed**
Next: 2036.
*Asimov is estimated to have written some 380 short stories.
**My rap name, invented in the early 21st century by me. I've been waiting patiently for some rapper to adopt it but so far nada.
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