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That's really odd. I've always read Andre as Andrea and thought the writer was a woman. It never occurred to me that it the name was supposed to be male, though I see it obviously now. Amazing what blind spots you can discover.
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In the late 60's, Playboy published an Ursula Leguin story, as by "U. K. Leguin", and did not publish a picture of her in the contributor's page up front where they blurbed the authors in the issue. SF fans still snicker about that, because Playboy published work by women and men, and it was apparently the fact that the story was SF that made them decide to be coy about the author's gender. ______ Dennis |
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H. G. Wells' book Things To Come, published in 1933, accurately predicted the beginning of WWII in 1940, with involvement by all the major countries of the world. (In that book he also predicted air raids on England, gas warfare, air conditioning, commercial televivion, and videotape recording.)
Hugo Gernsback's book RALPH 124C 41+, published in 1925, predicted:
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http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wells/hg/w45th/ And the classic film made of it is available for download here: http://www.archive.org/details/ClaCinOnl_ThingsToCome ______ Dennis |
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Shortest SF story
I always tought the shortest published SF was 4E Ackerman's
"Earth's Report Card" "F" |
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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) ![]() Last edited by Sparrow; 02-10-2008 at 05:22 PM. |
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Six-word short SF stories: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
My favorite is by Ursula K. Le Guin: Easy. Just touch the match to Oh, no! I have just posted a complete modern work of fiction and have ignored any and all copyrights. Sorry, Ursula. By the way, I love almost everything I've read of yours, particularly The Lathe of Heaven. You write my kind of SciFi. ![]() |
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We didn't get diddy computers in stories until they emerged in real life - but I could be wrong. Also don't think many writers predicted that half the population of the 21st century would be using their telephones to *type* messages to each other ![]() |
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Nope, Isaac Asimov covered that one in his Foundation series. Because of limited resources, the Foundationers were eventually able to shrink their computers down to the size of handheld devices, the size of a paperback book, I believe.
I think you're right there... I doubt too many SF writers have imagined that people would use cellphones for text messages, watching TV, playing games, downloading porn, or listening to music! Last edited by Steven Lyle Jordan; 02-11-2008 at 12:48 PM. |
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