Does a Bee Care? Does a Bee Care? Does a Bee Care? is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in "" in June 1957, and reprinted in the 1975 collection "Buy Jupiter and Other Stories". Gold Key Comics also published a comic book version of the story in 1976 in #4 of the four issue science fiction series "Starstream: Adventures in Science Fiction." It also appeared in 1976's "Questar: Illustrated Science Fiction Classics", published by Golden Press and adapted by A. Moniz with artwork from Jack Abel and in 1975 in "Buy Jupiter and Other Stories".
Does a Bee Care? ship leaves Earth and at the appropriate point, Kane departs from the ship and, now fully developed, travels unaided to its home planet. The author draws an analogy between Kane and a bee that visits and thereby pollinates flowers at random, with no real knowledge of what it has done. The illustrated adaptation by Moniz and Abel differs from the original short in that the comic is told largely from the perspective of the rocket scientist, Dr. Hammer, who is introduced as he struggles with an impossible math problem related to an upcoming launch. On several occasions, stargazing janitor Kane