Short story about science fiction
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Alfred Bester won a 1953 Hugo for his novel, The Demolished Man. Besides being a true personality and a novelist, he was a rare beast amongst Golden Age science fiction writers. He didn't only tell a great tale - he could write.
Many Golden Age writers, including one of the best-known, Robert Heinlein, were far better storytellers than they were writers. They had vision; words, not so much.
Bester wrote with a deep understanding of the psychology of language. He knew English well enough to play with it, mangle it, do impossible things with it. With Fondly Fahrenheit, the writing didn't just tell the story - it become the story. Which I suspect is why Fondly Fahrenheit was not ultimately dismissed as just another science fiction horror story.
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.
Fondly Fahrenheit isn't "literary" or prosy, like Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder. It's just beautifully written, with a suspenseful mystery and a catchy song you won't forget (but will want to). It's a story you have to keep reading.
And the end...the end changes everything and makes it, in my book, the undisdputed best science fiction short story of all time. (But feel free to dispute it if you like.)
Warning: As it is about a serial killer, Fondly Fahrenheit is a fairly dark story and may not be suitable for kids.
Many Golden Age writers, including one of the best-known, Robert Heinlein, were far better storytellers than they were writers. They had vision; words, not so much.
Bester wrote with a deep understanding of the psychology of language. He knew English well enough to play with it, mangle it, do impossible things with it. With Fondly Fahrenheit, the writing didn't just tell the story - it become the story. Which I suspect is why Fondly Fahrenheit was not ultimately dismissed as just another science fiction horror story.
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.
Fondly Fahrenheit isn't "literary" or prosy, like Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder. It's just beautifully written, with a suspenseful mystery and a catchy song you won't forget (but will want to). It's a story you have to keep reading.
And the end...the end changes everything and makes it, in my book, the undisdputed best science fiction short story of all time. (But feel free to dispute it if you like.)
Warning: As it is about a serial killer, Fondly Fahrenheit is a fairly dark story and may not be suitable for kids.
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Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
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