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What is This Thing Called Love?

1961 short story by Isaac Asimov
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Summary

What is This Thing Called Love? is a literary work[1]. What is This Thing Called Love? ranks in the top 4% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (58 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Isaac Asimov[3]
  • Genre: science fiction[4]
  • Language of work or name: English[5]
  • Country of origin: United States[6]
  • Publication date: 1961[7]
  • Published in: The Wizards of Odd[8]
  • Title: What Is This Thing Called Love?[9]
  • Form of creative work: short story[10]

Why It Matters

What is This Thing Called Love? is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15d ago · HedgeHog · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Freebase id → /m/026v657
    Vegetti catalog of fantastic literature nilf id → 1002486
    Isfdb title id → 40795
    Published in → The Wizards of Odd
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Bookbrainz work id: b829e7a1-da25-4e91-ad43-c76b9d8fe56e, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/325352687|What Is This Thing Called Love? (#325352687)]] in [[:toollab"
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