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    What is the name of the science fiction short story in Isaac Asimov's magazine about a couple who move into an apartment with a weird refrigerator and freezer? When the man looks into the freezer he sees the evolution and then destruction of the people in the freezer.

    Question #88690. Asked by janis4184. (Nov 18 07 12:35 PM)


    looney_tunes

    		This sounds like Arthur C. Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God", a short story first published in Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine 1953 and later collected in several books, including "The Collected Stories" by Arthur C. Clarke (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07065-X, Jan 2001).

    Sep 26 08, 1:29 AM
    Baloo55th

    		Not that one, sorry. The Nine Billion Names are produced by a computer delivered to a ?Tibetan monastery who believe that when they have all the possible names of God (there is a system for selecting them), the universe will end. The people who delivered the comp and set it up make a thankful getaway at the end, but "one by one, all the stars were going out"....
    (Source: Baloo's library)
    I've read the story looked for, but can't place it for the moment. Going digging....

    Sep 29 08, 10:40 AM

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