Nine Tomorrows

Asimov has put a collection of his short stories together in this volume. I got it at the Clunes book festival. Tom Cruise was in a film where he was an officer in the pre-cognition department. I can't remember exactly but he arrested people before they committed crimes, as they had a Multivac that predicted criminal behaviour. Now I know where that idea came from, as Asimov was describing it in the 1950s.  The stories are varied enough. There is also a whodunnit framed around a scientist who had invented the transporter room, as in Star Trek beam me up Scotty. He was murdered before he could present his theory and it wasn't a fururistic maid either.