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digitalemurSo I just ran across a concept and thought, "Oh, like in that Orson Scott Card story. You know, the infamous one."
Would y'all know which story I meant? Which story do you think I mean?
Cuz _I_ think of this story as particularly infamous, but I'm thinking that could apply to a lot of his short stories.
This is awful meta, even for me. Bed now, before I get any worse.
UPDATE: See the later comments for the name of thestory. I don't give specifics but I pretty much spoil the concept, and what I think REALLY gives the story impact, in my remarks about it, just FYI.
Would y'all know which story I meant? Which story do you think I mean?
Cuz _I_ think of this story as particularly infamous, but I'm thinking that could apply to a lot of his short stories.
This is awful meta, even for me. Bed now, before I get any worse.
UPDATE: See the later comments for the name of thestory. I don't give specifics but I pretty much spoil the concept, and what I think REALLY gives the story impact, in my remarks about it, just FYI.
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Date: 2004-08-04 09:03 pm (UTC)Well, unless it has to do with goo and horizontal thinking.
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Date: 2004-08-04 09:07 pm (UTC)I wasn't thinking of goo and horizontal thinking, unless that was involved in this story and I just don't remember it. Goo really isn't the point of the tale I have in mind, though.
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Date: 2004-08-04 09:10 pm (UTC)Maybe the one where they plant the devices to dissolve technological devices into their their component elements so that future generations won't know they existed?
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Date: 2004-08-04 09:41 pm (UTC)Unless you're using the word "story" in a general sense, to include his books as well. :) But as far as his short stories go, the flipper baby one definitely had the most notorious impact on me...
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Date: 2004-08-04 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-05 07:27 am (UTC)That wasn't the one I thought of last night, but I was thinking that the OTHER most infamous story I could think of was the flipper baby story.
I LOVE the flipper baby story. It's my fave. I once read it aloud to others by flashlight, while sitting in a tree. Good stuff, man. In a very disturbing way.
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Date: 2004-08-04 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-08-05 07:24 am (UTC)Well, except for "Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory," which is of course the flipper baby story.
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Date: 2004-08-05 11:13 am (UTC)I think of it as infamous cuz supposedly Card's wife couldn't stand to read the whole thing. I think it's not the repeated death that's bad, though that's brutal, it's that it's carried out in as disgusting a manner as possible. I won't say any more for those who haven't read it. But y'know, when you don't have to make sure a body's still pretty intact in order to be revivified (which is pretty common in a lot of sci-fi and fantasy), it sure opens up new windows for arcane tortures.
One thing's for sure, Card's a sick fuck.