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Topic: OSC's six word sci-fi story
vwiggin
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posted October 25, 2006 09:21 AM
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Stone_Wolf_
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posted October 25, 2006 09:41 AM
Steve ignores editor's word limit and
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Omega M.
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posted October 25, 2006 09:42 AM
quote: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work. In my opinion, that's not a story, it's a suggestive image. Whenever a writer says that something that short is one of the greatest things ever written (or at least that he/she has written), I wonder if he/she is just rationalizing not being able to come up with something of decent length (e.g., when Gertrude Stein said of her "a rose is a rose is a rose" that it marked the first time in a few hundred years that a rose was really present in English literature).Planetfall and other classic text adventure computer games.)
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Alcon
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posted October 25, 2006 10:21 AM
Leia: "Baby's yours." Luke: "Bad news…"
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jehovoid
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posted October 25, 2006 10:26 AM
They don't all follow the "beginning/middle/end" prescription. But hey, let them eat cake.
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Shmuel
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posted October 25, 2006 10:55 AM
quote: Originally posted by Omega M.:In my opinion, that's not a story, it's a suggestive image. Whenever a writer says that something that short is one of the greatest things ever written (or at least that he/she has written), I wonder if he/she is just rationalizing not being able to come up with something of decent length (e.g., when Gertrude Stein said of her "a rose is a rose is a rose" that it marked the first time in a few hundred years that a rose was really present in English literature). Given how many longer works both Hemingway and Stein came up with, I find it hard to believe that would be the reason.
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katharina
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posted October 25, 2006 11:08 AM
Of those posted, Card and Whedon's are the best.
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Katarain
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posted October 25, 2006 11:14 AM
I saw, darling, but do lie.
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Dan_raven
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posted October 25, 2006 11:17 AM
"The hero saves the day, almost."
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Teshi
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posted October 25, 2006 11:24 AM
quote: Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
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Dan_raven
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posted October 25, 2006 11:53 AM
These are fun:
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Teshi
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posted October 25, 2006 11:57 AM
Hah, I like the last one of yours, Dan.
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katharina
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posted October 25, 2006 11:59 AM
Please forgive my refusal to forget.
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Dan_raven
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posted October 25, 2006 12:37 PM
Hamlet--To be or?
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Shepherd
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posted October 25, 2006 12:48 PM
From the minds of Shepherd and crystal-city:
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katharina
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posted October 25, 2006 12:50 PM
Their deaths annoyed her more than him.
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Dan_raven
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posted October 25, 2006 12:59 PM
One word too many. You lose.
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Alcon
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posted October 25, 2006 01:03 PM
I love David Brin's. And Joss Whedon's is hilarious. quote: Temporal recursion. I'm dad and mom? quote: New genes demand expression -- third eye. *note to self: read more Greg Bear*
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A Rat Named Dog
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posted October 25, 2006 01:23 PM
A few I wrote and attributed to others:
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lem
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posted October 25, 2006 02:13 PM
I wonder if this 6 word short story thing is inspired by, "We came, we saw, we conquered."
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katharina
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posted October 25, 2006 02:14 PM
She forgot that she should grieve.
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Bokonon
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posted October 25, 2006 02:32 PM
"Deja vu, dear." "Cripes, Not again!"
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MyrddinFyre
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posted October 25, 2006 02:43 PM
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BlackBlade
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posted October 25, 2006 02:48 PM
My own, from OSC literature:
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MrSquicky
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posted October 25, 2006 02:50 PM
Knife-edge bad place for dancing.
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MrSquicky
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posted October 25, 2006 02:59 PM
Intergalactic spiders live in our sun.
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Dan_raven
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posted October 25, 2006 03:05 PM
Died October 31, 2006, 2008, 1745
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Puppy
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posted October 25, 2006 03:08 PM
More six-word versions of Orson Scott Card novels. See if you can name the books
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katharina
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posted October 25, 2006 03:10 PM
Mom, a major's here for you.
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Lisa
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posted October 25, 2006 03:34 PM
1. Speaker for the dead
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Lisa
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posted October 25, 2006 03:36 PM
quote: Originally posted by lem: I wonder if this 6 word short story thing is inspired by, "We came, we saw, we conquered." I thought it was "I came, I saw, I conquered", no? And the original is only 3 words.
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TheTick
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posted October 25, 2006 03:37 PM
6 is Worthing Saga.
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ElJay
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posted October 25, 2006 03:37 PM
6. is The Worthing Saga.
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TheTick
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posted October 25, 2006 03:40 PM
Beat ya.
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Dan_raven
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posted October 25, 2006 03:48 PM
My bullet lodged between his hearts.
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Puppy
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posted October 25, 2006 03:49 PM
You guys are still missing #8 and #3, I believe ...
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katharina
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posted October 25, 2006 03:51 PM
8. Children of the Mind
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Puppy
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posted October 25, 2006 03:52 PM
Nope.
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BannaOj
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posted October 25, 2006 03:54 PM
#8, pick your book from the Homecoming series... probably the second.
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Puppy
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posted October 25, 2006 03:57 PM
Actually, yeah, it could be either of the first two. I was thinking of Memory of Earth , though, where the idea of a busted computer leading to war was introduced.
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Puppy
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posted October 25, 2006 03:58 PM
The Ender series isn't the only one with people named Anderson.
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BannaOj
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posted October 25, 2006 03:59 PM
Yeah but wasn't #2 (of homecoming series) where they actually started fighting on a more global scale? (I can't keep those titles straight for some reason)[ October 25, 2006, 04:13 PM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
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BannaOj
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posted October 25, 2006 04:01 PM
re: #3 You've got to have the character die before the story is over.... are you sure we are talking about your dad's books?
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Puppy
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posted October 25, 2006 04:01 PM
Sure, but my point is that #3 is not a book from the Enderverse.
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katharina
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posted October 25, 2006 04:04 PM
quote: Though to be fair, my dad missed that one, too *laugh* That is heartening.
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