7 D Though the story’s disturbing premise – that a servile android-robot could turn on its human superiors and commit murder – was probably radical at the time, without Bester’s way with words, Fondly Fahrenheit wouldn’t have become the classic science fiction short story that it is today, still cited as one of the best sci-fi stories ever. E By His Bootstraps is another time travel story. I didn’t like the main character. Heinlein’s characters just don’t do it for me. But at least this story is about a character, and not a society that doesn’t seem real (which is one of my complaints about Heinlein’s stories). Reading the story is pure fun. The paradoxical logic was terribly clever. And as the story unfolded, it became obvious that it was perhaps the best time travel story I’d ever read. As a bonus, it’s re-readable, despite the fact that the ending is not exactly forgettable. It’s like re-reading an Agatha Christie novel. You remember whodunnit, but you want to see how you were tricked. F Pipeline to Pluto is a highly detailed and convincing tale of space travel. The story describes a prosaic world of blue-collar transportation – freight, in fact. Like much Golden Age science fiction, the story, told through fast-paced narrative and dialogue, isn’t concerned with conveying a political viewpoint or defending a special interest group. It’s concerned with ideas: the concepts, possibilities, and ironies of a newly technological world unfolding for human beings possessed of universal flaws and compromised value systems. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 B According to Chris, this story/these stories … later appeared in a different form. 0 has something in common with another author’s work. 1 shows wrongdoing being regarded as acceptable behaviour. 2 became famous mainly due to the author’s good use of language. 3 has a quality rarely to be found in contemporary works of this kind. 4 is about advanced technology getting out of control. 5 is more enjoyable than others written by the same author. 6 develop in a way that is satisfyingly surprising. 7 8 deals with concepts that are often found in classic science fiction stories. 9 fail to satisfy him completely in some respects. 10 11 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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