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Far Out (book)
''Far Out'' is a collection of 13 science fiction short stories by American writer Damon Knight. The stories were originally published between 1949 and 1960 in ''Galaxy Magazine'', ''If (magazine), If Science Fiction'' and other science fiction magazines. There is an introduction by Anthony Boucher. The book contains the story "To Serve Man", which was later adapted for television. Contents * Introduction * "To Serve Man" * "Idiot Stick" * "Thing of Beauty (short story), Thing of Beauty" * "The Enemy (short story), The Enemy" * "Not with a Bang (short story), Not with a Bang" * "Babel II (short story), Babel II" * "Anachron" * "Special Delivery (short story), Special Delivery" * "You're Another" * "Time Enough" * "Extempore" * "Cabin Boy (short story), Cabin Boy" * "The Last Word (Knight short story), The Last Word" External links * Damon Knight, Knight, Damon (1961), Far Out ', Simon & Schuster, New York 1961 short story collections Science fiction short story collections W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Not With A Bang (short Story)
"Not with a Bang" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It first appeared in the winter 1949 issue of ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher a ...'' and has been reprinted a number of times, including in '' Far Out'' (1961), ''The Best of Damon Knight'' (1976), ''50 Short Science Fiction Tales'', and '' The Eureka Years'' (1982). Synopsis The story is an ironic, Adam-and-Eve tale. Humanity has been wiped out by a nuclear war, except for one man and woman, who meet in a restaurant in Salt Lake City. The man suffers from a disease that causes recurrent episodes of total paralysis. While in the bathroom, he has an attack, and dies with the realization that the woman is too prudish to enter and save him. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Short Story Collections
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The Last Word (Knight Short Story)
"The Last Word" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It first appeared in the February 1957 issue of ''Satellite Science Fiction'' and has been reprinted twice, in '' Far Out'' (1961) and ''The Best of Damon Knight'' (1976). Synopsis The story is told in first person, by a narrator who, it soon becomes clear, is Satan. He briefly recounts his history on Earth and tells how he directed people toward destructive activity, for instance by teaching them how to make gunpowder. Now the final war is over, and almost everyone has been killed. Satan comes across a man and a woman, the last survivors, who are inside a transparent dome that keeps out the contaminated air. The two people recognize Satan for who he is; Satan is troubled by their calm certitude, and asks about the elaborate machine that he sees inside their dome. He is told that it is a time machine Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabin Boy (short Story)
''Cabin Boy'' is a 1994 American fantasy comedy film directed by Adam Resnick, co-produced by Tim Burton, and starring comedian Chris Elliott. Elliott co-wrote the film with Resnick. Both Elliott and Resnick worked for ''Late Night with David Letterman'' in the 1980s as well as co-creating the Fox sitcom '' Get a Life'' in the early 1990s. Plot Nathaniel Mayweather is a snobbish, self-centered, arrogant, virginal man. After graduation, he is invited by his father to sail to Hawaii aboard ''The Queen Catherine''. After annoying the limousine driver who is taking him to board the boat, he is forced to walk the rest of the way. Nathaniel makes a wrong turn into a small fishing village where he meets the imbecilic cabin boy/first mate Kenny of ''The Filthy Whore''. Nathaniel believes ''The Filthy Whore'' to be ''The'' ''Queen Catherine'' until the next morning, when Captain Greybar finds Nathaniel in his room and explains that the boat will not return to dry land for three months. Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extempore
''Ex tempore'' (Latin for "out of the moment“) is a legal term that means 'at the time'. A judge who hands down a decision in a case soon or straight after hearing it is delivering a decision ''ex tempore''. Another way a judge may deliver a decision is to reserve their decision and deliver it later in written form. An ''ex tempore'' judgment, being off the cuff, does not entail the same preparation as a reserved decision. Consequently, it will not be thought out to the same degree. In Australia, intermediate-level courts tend to have a heavy case load, and so many decisions are delivered ''ex tempore'' for reasons of time and necessity. Because many decisions are ''ex tempore'', intermediate-level courts' decisions are not binding on inferior courts - that is to say, that in New South Wales, the District Court's decisions are not binding on the Local Court (see Valentine v Eid (1992) 27 NSWLR 615 and '' stare decisis''). Ex tempore decisions are not binding on later courts d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Enough
"Time Enough" (alternate title: "Enough Time") is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight Damon Francis Knight (September 19, 1922 – April 15, 2002) was an American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He is the author of " To Serve Man", a 1950 short story adapted for ''The Twilight Zone''.Stanyard, ''Dimensions Behind t .... It first appeared in the July 1960 issue of '' Amazing'' magazine and has since been reprinted twice, in '' Far Out'' (1961) and ''The Best of Damon Knight'' (1976). Synopsis A psychiatrist of the future (1978) treats a young man, using a machine that causes him to relive an embarrassing incident from his childhood. The psychiatrist describes the treatment as follows: "The past can be altered. The scholar can take his exam over again, the lover can propose once more, the words that were thought of too late can be spoken...It's like a game of cards. If you don't like the hand that is dealt to you, you can take another, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You're Another
"You're Another" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It first appeared in the June 1955 issue of ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' and has been reprinted a number of times, including in the 1961 collection '' Far Out''. The story contains perhaps the earliest fictional depiction of what is now called reality television. Synopsis Johnny Bornish is a young painter in New York city who is plagued by bad luck. He is "the kind of person who gets his shirttail caught in zippers, is trapped by elevators and revolving doors, and trips on pebbles." An acquaintance, Duke, a rogue and ladies' man, suggests that Johnny take a trip to Florida and lends him fifty dollars. At the airport, Johnny realizes that his troubles started on the day ten years ago when he found a "Japanese coin" in high school. He attempts to get rid of the coin but it somehow is returned to him each time; finally he crunches it in a hinged counter door and runs for the plane. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Delivery (short Story)
"Special Delivery" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It first appeared in the April 1954 issue of ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' and has been reprinted a number of times, in ''Operation Future'' (1955), '' Far Out'' (1961), and ''The Best of Damon Knight'' (1976). Synopsis Len and Moira Connington are expecting a baby; Len teaches high-school chemistry and hopes for a promotion. Moira begins to act strangely; it seems as if someone else, a child, is sometimes speaking through her mouth, and she develops aversions to alcohol and coffee. Eventually they realize that the unborn baby, Leo (who named himself for Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, Drawing, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially res ...), is communicating with and through the mother. Leo's intellect develops quic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babel II (short Story)
"Babel II" is a comedic science fiction short story by Damon Knight. The protagonist accidentally causes a second Tower of Babel through his interactions with a trans-dimensional traveller. First published in ''Beyond Fantasy Fiction'' in 1953, the story has been a topic of commentary ever since. Plot Comic book artist Lloyd Cavanaugh is surprised by a man that suddenly appears in his apartment in Manhattan. The man looks odd, like a character from the ''Happy Hooligan'' comic strip. Speaking another language, to communicate the man uses a small disk that produces videos from thought. He eventually explains that he is from another dimension that periodically intersects with Earth. He is using the current conjunction to buy handmade goods. He pays Cavanaugh with enormous diamonds for various photographs in the apartment, but will only buy items Cavanaugh has personally produced. Before leaving, Cavanaugh offers a drink of wine, and the Hooligan reciprocates with a small device th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Enemy (short Story)
"The Enemy" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It first appeared in the January 1958 issue of ''Venture'' magazine and has been reprinted twice, in the books '' Far Out'' (1961) and ''The Best of Damon Knight'' (1976). Synopsis Fifteen-year-old Zael, who was born in space, is left alone on a planetoid to begin mining operations. She belongs to a culture that centuries ago was driven from the Earth. While charting mineral deposits, Zael discovers an alien who has been held inert, presumably for thousands of years, in a metal globe. Zael accidentally causes the globe to open and the alien emerges, upsetting her tractor. Zael realizes that the creature is hostile, and speculates that it has been in suspended animation Suspended animation is the temporary (short- or long-term) slowing or stopping of biological function so that physiological capabilities are preserved. It may be either hypometabolic or ametabolic in nature. It may be induced by e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
