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? causes the frustrated doctor to have a sudden epiphany which allows him to progress in the launch effort. After realizing Kane is always around when he has these moments of insight, Hammer confronts Kane and learns of Kane's 8,000 year history of "assisting" scientists and inventors to make historic breakthroughs-- all apparently to advance humanity's effort into exploring space. Unexpectedly, Kane himself does not have any understanding of how or why he has been doing this, nor familiarity with the scientific breakthroughs he's inspired. Kane feels compelled to enter the special man-sized room Dr. Hammer had inadvertently designed in the