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Spell My Name with an	comment	First published in Star Science Fiction (January 1958 issue), by Isaac Asimov under the title "S as in Zebatinsky". This Science Fiction Short Story was inspired by people spelling Dr Asimov's name wrong.Dr Marshall Zebatinsky is a physicist who has been bemoaning his dead-end job for years, so his wife convinced him to go to a numerologist for advice on what to do. The numerologist analyses his biographical information, and informs Dr Zebatinsky that changing his name to Sebatinsky will bring him the independence and notoriety he desires.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })After he makes this change off-screen, the perspective shifts to Henry Brand, who is talking to Lieutenant Quincy, a young employee of Security, who finds it suspicious that Dr Sebatinsky would change his name. After doing some double-checking, they discover that there was a Russian physicist named Dr Zebatinsky as well. Their Dr Zebatinsky was working on an anti-radiation shield to defend against nuclear war. Prompted by this discovery, they decide to encourage secret development of gamma-ray reflection technology, too. Meanwhile, they move Dr Sebatinsky to Associate Professor of Physics at Princeton (a famous college).Back to Dr Marshall Sebatinsky and his wife; he's very happy with the new job, and relieved that he wasn't being investigated as a subversive. He decides to revisit the numerologist and thank him for helping to achieve some small personal fame, but the office is closed, and has been for years. Ignoring the incongruity, he forgets about the business, and the perspective shifts again, now to a pair of Energy Beings, one of which used to be disguised as a numerologist.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })In addition, this work was republished six times; Nine Tomorrows (1959), Galaxy (issue #64, September 1963), Sirius (issue #107, May 1985), The Best Science Fiction Of Isaac Asimov (1986), Robot Dreams (1986), and The Complete Stories, Volume 1 (1990).
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Spell My Name with an / int_86d4f985	comment	Doing In the Wizard: Dr Zebatinsky goes to a numerologist, someone who can predict people's personal futures by using numbers. The numerologist insists on explaining that he's not using pseudo-magical techniques, instead following statistical analysis to predict the future. Extra twist! The numerologist isn't a human; he was an Energy Being trying to prove that it can manipulate global events on Earth with minor efforts.
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Spell My Name with an / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: When Dr Zebatinsky changed his name to Dr Sebatinsky, government officials started checking into his background and ancestry to see why he had changed his name in that way. They were suspicious that he might be a "subversive", someone who is willing to work for enemy countries. After moving him to a college job, he tells his wife that his concern about being investigated as a subversive was obviously wrong, and it must have been the college using subtle methods to interview him.
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Spell My Name with an	hasFeature	American Literature (N to S) / int_2453c14e
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Spell My Name with an	hasFeature	Deflector Shields / int_2453c14e
Spell My Name with an	hasFeature	Doing In the Wizard / int_2453c14e
Spell My Name with an	hasFeature	Dramatic Irony / int_2453c14e
Spell My Name with an	hasFeature	Energy Beings / int_2453c14e
Spell My Name with an	hasFeature	In Mysterious Ways / int_2453c14e
Spell My Name with an	hasFeature	Prescience by Analysis / int_2453c14e
Spell My Name with an	hasFeature	Switching P.O.V. / int_2453c14e
Spell My Name with an	hasFeature	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday / int_2453c14e
Spell My Name with an	hasFeature	World War III / int_2453c14e

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