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Sparrow · 02-10-2008, 05:01 PM

There's mild controversy about "Cosmic Report Card: Earth" because the text can't be understood without the title- so is it really a one-letter story?

Another one-character story is "If Eve Had Failed to Conceive" by Ed Wellen (Orbit 15, ed. Damon Knight)

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(As "." is smaller than "F" - maybe Wellen beats Ackerman.)

Incidentally, "Cosmic Report Card: Earth" can be downloaded from http://www.lulu.com/4forry for £3.44 (print version £6.47)

- does that make it the most expensive SF story ever sold in terms of price per letter?

02-10-2008, 05:01 PM	#37
Sparrow Wizard Posts: 4,395 Karma: 1358132 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3	There's mild controversy about "Cosmic Report Card: Earth" because the text can't be understood without the title- so is it really a one-letter story? Another one-character story is "If Eve Had Failed to Conceive" by Ed Wellen (Orbit 15, ed. Damon Knight) "." (As "." is smaller than "F" - maybe Wellen beats Ackerman.) Incidentally, "Cosmic Report Card: Earth" can be downloaded from http://www.lulu.com/4forry for £3.44 (print version £6.47) - does that make it the most expensive SF story ever sold in terms of price per letter? Last edited by Sparrow; 02-10-2008 at 05:22 PM.