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Science-Fiction 101
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First published in 1987, under the title Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder, by editor Robert Silverberg. In 2001, it was re-released under the title Science-Fiction 101. This Genre Anthology collects multiple Science Fiction short fiction stories by various authors. The purpose of each story, though, is not merely to entertain but actually to teach a principle about writing science fiction. After each story is a short essay on what to learn as a writer by Robert Silverberg. In the introduction, Silverberg explains that reading other authors is how he learned to write, and hopes to present these stories so that other readers may do the same.Works reprinted in Science-Fiction 101: "Four In One", by Damon Knight "Fondly Fahrenheit", by Alfred Bester "No Woman Born", by C. L. Moore "Home Is The Hunter", by Henry Kuttner "The Monsters", by Robert Sheckley "Common Time", by James Blish "Scanners Live in Vain", by Cordwainer Smith "Hothouse", by Brian W. Aldiss "The New Prime", by Jack Vance "Colony", by Philip K. Dick "The Little Black Bag", by Cyril M. Kornbluth "Light Of Other Days", by Bob Shaw "Day Million", by Frederik Pohl | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Noted at one point, where the omniscient narrator who appears for one chapter mentions that such an expedition should have only occurred after the area was declared safe to explore, and after any dangerous bacteria there could be sterilized. Instead, the race for colonization has made everyone forgo basic safety. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The android constantly states "gloriously Fahrenheit". "Fondly Fahrenheit" doesn't appear until the end when the murders resume with a robot that instead murders on cold days. | |
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Dead All Along | |
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Dead All Along: Mrs. Hagan and her son are dead, and the view the couple see of them through the window are just preserved slow glass images. Mr. Hagan keeps it up as the last memento of his family. | |
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The Spook | |
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The Spook: Miss McCarty, who has orders to kill any members that act out of line. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: New York is one now. No word about the rest of the world. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: There is a kinda of funniness in how commonplace murder is in this village. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Wanda is writing a paper suggesting a cause for the murders of the android. Her only hint she gives about it is "projection." Vandeleur is projecting his insanity on the android. Blenheim's gun is first used to kill Blenheim himself. Later, it goes off accidentally from the heat of the explosion, revealing the two's location to the police. | |
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Your Mind Makes It Real | |
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Your Mind Makes It Real: How the meisterii works. Need to see? The creatures grows some eyes. Need to walk? The creature grows some legs. It takes time and concentration, but the possibilities are infinite. This is how McCarty is killed. Vivian thinks to herself about how much better things would be without her, and thus the creature excretes McCarty's brain and nerves out. | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness: Cordovir, upon seeing the aliens, says no creature that ugly could be moral, and a few of the villagers express that maybe these ugly things should be put out of their misery. Subverted, though, as the aliens are more moral than the "humans" in regards to killing. | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: In the android's default state, it will not kill, even when ordered to. It will only assist a kill if it can be interpreted as self-defense, or if the temperature is above 90 degrees Fahrenheit. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: The "humans" have no problem with killing each other if they feel like it, but lying?! Only a monster would do that! | |
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Starfish Aliens | |
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Starfish Aliens: Discussed by the villagers after seeing the rocket. Some claim the aliens must look like them because their anatomy works so well, others say they would look nothing like them because the universe promises wide varieties of evolution. The latter turns out to be right; the aliens are tentacled creatures with bulbous heads and brittle limbs, with skin the color of flayed flesh. | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage: Dora and Don fall in love and marry after just knowing each other for seconds. The marriage is over just as fast. Technically. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: In order to bait Grisworld to Central Park, Bellamy spreads rumors that Bill Lindman and Whistler Cowles had also challenged each other to a duel, giving Grisworld three possible targets for one night. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: No one is imagining their common items attacking them. Your towels and gloves really are out to kill you! | |
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Crapsaccharine World | |
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Crapsaccharine World: Guess. | |
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Every Car Is a Pinto | |
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Every Car Is a Pinto: While trying to flee the police, Vandeleur's car crashes and explodes. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: Major Gumbs fails to kill George and is wounded when a rock falls on his spine. George helps him out and tells him he can heal it. Not long afterward, Gumbs tries to kill him again, only to kill himself instead. | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Vivian, though she turns out to be a bit stronger than Meister expected. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The android is usually obedient, but once in a while will turn murderous and thus force the two to flee again. The attacks turn out to occur only on days above 90 degrees Fahrenheit because of a disorder in the android's glands. As for the murderous streak, it may just be killing those who Vandeleur wants it to kill. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise: Vandeleur's false names always still start with "V". This gets him caught multiple times. The android's forehead stamp reading MA (Multiple Aptitude) is hidden by being beaten until its forehead bruises. That too is soon discovered. | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters: Debatably. The "humans" (who are probably not homo sapiens or even from Earth at all) commit casual murder on a daily basis, but it's all to keep their population in check. They, however, view the aliens as monsters for saying killing is wrong and thus going against their way of life. | |
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Billed Above the Title | |
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Billed Above the Title: The 2001 cover by ibooks lists Silverberg's name above the road sign that serves as a title. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: The entire crew is killed by the protoplasms before they can alert future colonists about the danger on Planet Blue. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Go ahead, glare and grumble. Dora doesn't care. If she thinks of you at all, her thirty-times-great-great-grandfather, she thinks you're a pretty primordial sort of brute. You are. Why, Dora is farther removed from you than you are from the australopithcines of five thousand centuries ago." | |
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Everyone Is Bi | |
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Everyone Is Bi: Both the "humans" and aliens are, apparently. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Males are killed for infractions as small as interrupting each other or being boring. This is the "human's" way of making sure only able males get to pass on their genes. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: Towards the beginning, George tries to think of a name for the organism, planning on "something meisterii". At the end of the story, he changes his mind and names it Spes hominis (Man's hope). Silverberg notes this in his commentary on the story, writing: "It's always artistically pleasing when a story's end hearkens back to its beginning." | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: The "humans", maybe. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Gumbs becomes this to McCarty. | |
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I Am Not Left-Handed | |
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I Am Not Left-Handed: Invoked. While speaking to Griswold via video-phone, Bellamy fakes injuring his hand so that Griswold will assume he has only one good hand in their duel. | |
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Vasquez Always Dies | |
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Vasquez Always Dies: McCarty, the more assertive of the two female characters, is killed by Vivian. Of course, she is the antagonist, so it was kinda inevitable. | |
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We Are as Mayflies | |
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We Are as Mayflies: Enforced. Female "humans" are only allowed to live for twenty-five days, because so many of them are born in proportion to males. The females themselves don't see why they'd want any more. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Throughout the narration, the POV constantly switches, even mid-paragraph! It's because Vandeleur is projecting his thoughts onto the android. Even after it's dead, he still sometimes thinks he's it. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: The "humans" often hold debates in the evening. Anyone who contradicts their ally, interrupts, or is simply stupid is promptly killed. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: The creature the four are inhabiting is tentatively called the meisterii (mystery). | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
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Here We Go Again!: Vandeleur escapes to a frigid colony where he buys a cheap labor robot to do his work now. However, it picks up his insanity too and is implied to start murdering on cold days instead. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: The android often sings the song: "Oh it's not feat to beat the heat, All reet! All reet! So jeet your seat, be fleet, be fleet, honey..." As Vandeleur turns more insane, he begins randomly inserting in phrases from the song in his sentences. After a murder is committed, the android will note that the temperature is "— degrees gloriously Fahrenheit." Because the murders are committed only on hot days. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
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Off with His Head!: Why else do you think they're called "head-hunters"? | |
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Nudity Equals Honesty | |
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Nudity Equals Honesty: When the officers realizes what it is going on, they order the entire crew to evacuate the ship naked to be sure nobody brings a parasite with them. | |
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Our Humans Are Different | |
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Our Humans Are Different: What little we hear of the protagonists' anatomy tells us they have structures like bladed tails or one eye, but they refer to themselves as "humans". Later on, the aliens also say that they are "humans". | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: The narrator is a head-hunter, who murders for a living. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: When the meisterii gets hungry, George directs the group to attack a herd of pig-like creatures so they can eat them. However, just before they attack, Gumbs points out that George hasn't explained how they're supposed to kill these things. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Subverted. All the murders of people Vandeleur had disliked or deemed dangerous, but only to him. | |
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Overly Long Name: "Dora" is short for "omnicron-Dibase seven-group-totter-oot S Doradus 5314". Don's name is said to be just as long. | |
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Karmic Death: The android is caught in the flames from the explosion of Vandeleur's car and is burned to death. | |
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Major Injury Underreaction: George is pretty cool with being eaten alive by some unidentified creature, being a scientist and trying to examine everything that's happening to him. Everyone else is freaking out and/or angry. | |
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Better to Die than Be Killed: After defeating his final threat to his title, Bellamy poisons himself during the victory ceremony. | |
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Immune to Bullets | |
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Immune to Bullets: The group is shot at one point by a passing guard, but the bullet fragments are instead pushed through the body. George deduces that no attack to them would be fatal unless it hits their spinal cord or brain. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Vivian literally grows a backbone, keeping McCarty from being able to kill her. Then Vivian returns the favor. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Bellamy notes at the beginning of the story that there's only two ways out of a head-hunters life: you're either killed by a rival and thus your head is mounted and your treasury looted, or you die naturally/by suicide and be honored with a plastic statue in Central Park. Bellamy takes the suicide route at the end of the story. | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
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Naked People Are Funny: Toward the end of the story, the crew of the colony ship is forced to go naked to make sure they aren't carrying any of the creatures with them. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Vandeleur gets away and gets a cheaper labor robot next, which may continue his murders. | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Though highly emotional and frightened throughout the whole story, Vivian is the one to kill McCarty. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: The point of the story. Dora and Don's marriage is merely a sensory download that they can access at any time. Among other strange details of their future culture. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: The security member of the team meant to supervise them all is named McCarty. This story was written during the Red Scare. | |
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Science Hero | |
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Science Hero: George Meister, the team biologist who bests understands the situation and plans. Vivian, the only other scientist, is a geologist and thus is out of her element. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: The "humans" are constantly concerned about whether these alien visitors are moral beings, despite the villagers constantly killing each other. They also think the aliens lack hospitality, despite constantly calling them ugly. | |
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Blood Knight | |
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Blood Knight: A necessary quality for every head-hunter. | |
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence | |
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Integrated with the meisterii, the humans become shapeshifters, and functionally immortal. | |
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Moral Event Horizon | |
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invokedMoral Event Horizon: In "human" eyes, the aliens cross it when they kill male "humans" in an attempt to rescue the females, despite promising to do no harm. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Major Hall is reluctant to admit that his own microscope tried to strangle him, because he knows no one would believe him. He only admits it when he's attacked again and when pressured by others to, and sure enough they do take him in to be checked. However, another attack occurs almost immediately afterward, proving the truth of his statement. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Gumbs tries to crush George with a boulder, but instead is the one flattened. | |
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Artificial Outdoors Display | |
| Science-Fiction 101 / int_def7c6ec | comment |
Artificial Outdoors Display: Played with. A material called "slow glass" is technically transparent but so dense that light takes weeks, months, or even years to pass through it. As a result, images on it can be preserved by placing the slow glass near a scenic area for a while then hoisting it elsewhere. With it, one can have the appearance of a window to a grassy meadow or mountain range or other site right outside one's room. | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
| Science-Fiction 101 / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Blue-and-Orange Morality: The central conflict, especially in regards to killing. The aliens think killing is wrong, the "humans" use it as a way to keep the enormous female population in check. This goes badly when the "humans" find out which aliens are female and try to "help" by killing them for the males. The aliens respond by killing males in self-defense, or any they see about to kill their wives. | |
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Female Misogynist | |
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Female Misogynist: The females of the village are all thrilled to be given just one month of life before they're killed by their husbands. | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility: Hence why the couple is so cranky at the moment. They claim to have been hoping for a child "later", but secretly this meant "never". | |
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Tagline | |
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Tagline: "Thirteen stories selected and introduced by Robert Silverberg with an autobiographical essay" — original 1987 cover "Thirteen classic stories. What makes them the best?" — 1988 Great Britain cover "Where to start reading and writing science fiction" — 2005 cover "A collection of essential science fiction masterpieces, selected and introduced by Robert Silverberg" — 2014 cover by New American Library | |
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R-Rated Opening | |
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R-Rated Opening: The story opens with police finding the body of a nude dead girl who was killed by the android. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: Noted in the afterword by Silverberg. A substance like slow glass in real life would likely distort the images through random movements of molecules long before they would ever reach the other side... but then we wouldn't have this story, would we? | |
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Everything Trying to Kill You | |
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Everything Trying to Kill You: The protoplasm can imitate any inanimate object, thus making everything aboard the ship suspect. | |
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