Profession by Isaac Asimov(www.abelard.org)
70 pointsby bkudria8 hours ago5 comments
  • spagettnet5 hours ago
    Link to the story without ads

    https://www.inf.ufpr.br/renato/profession.html

    • catoc3 hours ago
      Thanks - the OP’s site was a truly horrible experience
    • cdman5 hours ago
      I haven't seen any ads on the site - I guess AdNauseum works well :)
  • elcapitan36 minutes ago
    Is this still in print, maybe as part of a collection? I tried to find it but couldn't. Many of his other works seem to be available as paperback, including a bunch of story collections.
    • kmaitreys18 minutes ago
      I have it in print. As part of Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories Volume 1 (Published by Harper Voyager)
  • ameliaquining4 hours ago
    This is my favorite Asimov story. It's got a protagonist with compelling motivations, a society that has problems but also convincing reasons why they persist, and a great ending.
    • zem34 minutes ago
      mine too, because one of my favourite sff tropes is that the more you regiment society, the more you rely on outsiders and those pushed to the edges for any real innovation.
  • jimbob453 hours ago
    Dr Antonelli said, “Or do you believe that studying some subject will bend the brain cells in that direction, like that other theory that a pregnant woman need only listen to great music persistently to make a composer of her child. Do you believe that?”

    Apparently, Asimov was an early critic of the “Mozart in the womb” movement.

  • Aeglaecia5 hours ago
    one of asimov's finest , a metaphor that continues to find relevance in my day to day existence - that the conclusions we so readily come to are assumptions made in the absence of the awareness of something more