Review - Answer

Answer
by Fredric Brown
Date: 1954
Publisher: unknown
Reading level: A
Book type: short story
Pages: 1
Format: e-book
Source: read it here

"Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.

He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. 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 supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies."

(synopsis from Goodreads)

Oops.

I really don't want to say much more than that. The Goodreads synopsis is about a third of the entire text as it is.

The science fiction feels a little dated. By the time we get to the point where we're connecting every computer in the universe together, I kind of doubt that we're going to be doing it using solder. In any case, the "answer" to the first question asked of this supercomputer is intriguing, awesome, and terrifying.

Take a few seconds and give this one a read.

Plot: 3/5
Characters: 2/5
Pace: 3/5
Writing & Editing: 3/5
Originality: 3/5

Enjoyment: 3/5

Overall Rating: 3.33 out of 5 ladybugs