On 12-9-2015 10:50, Stephen wrote:
> On 9/12/2015 8:31 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 12-9-2015 0:03, Stephen wrote:
>>> On 9/11/2015 9:23 PM, clipka wrote:
>>>> Am 11.09.2015 um 22:06 schrieb Stephen:
>>>>
>>>>> Which reminded me of a story by Harry Harrison* called Toy shop.
>>>>> http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22966
>>>>
>>>> Now /that's/ what I call true genius...
>>>>
>>>
>>> It has stuck with me for about 50 years.
>>> I don't know whether it was my age or if there were a lot more "make you
>>> think" short stories. It was like a sub-sub-genre with points for
>>> brevity. You have probably read Knock. The shortest SF story. If not:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_%28short_story%29
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Somehow, now that you mention it, this sub-sub-genre seems to have
>> totally vanished from the shelves. A pity; it was most enjoyable.
>>
>
> Isaac Asimov had a weakness for Short-short stories that were puns.
>
>> Which reminds me of the following story by Damon Knight: "To Serve Man"
>> http://perrylocal.org/mostova/files/2011/09/To-Serve-Man.pdf
>> Like you, it stuck with me since the 1960's. I first read it in French
>> translation, in the now legendary magazine /Planète/.
>>
>
> That one is one of my memories too.
> I did not read many magazines by the time the American ones got to
> Glasgow they would be in batches several months late. The British
> magazines would be difficult to find. It was mostly library books that
> kept me going.
>
I really got started on SF when I moved to Amsterdam in '66 where I 
discovered Analog and began collecting SF books. Iirc Analog was the 
only magazine available in stores; others (no UK) were either not there 
or only irregularly.

-- 
Thomas

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