I think we were richer in Sci-fi literature back in the 50's, 60's & 70's, than today. Short stories are of a lost art. These magazines were a treat, every month, when I saved my allowance to buy these periodicals. I would fire up my flashlight in a clichèd blanket fort, & read these until I passed out. Technology has allowed us to archive these stories (thankfully). I feel like I'm 11 again, when I listen to these. I can't praise this RUclipsr enough. Thanks for this collection.
These were the best kind of sci-fi stories, the ones that have a crazy twist at the end. I'm 26 and I absolutely love the stories from the golden age of sci-fi. No one writes them like that anymore. I've been trying to write my own but I'm a terrible writer.
A world gone by. I too remember saving my allowance and going to little Empire Market (we called it the vampire market) and it had the best selection of sci fi books and short stories anywhere at the time. Imagine 35 pennies and gallon of gas 24 pennies. We all knew the authors, Simak, Heinlein, Phillip K Dick, speeding along high on benzedrine ( 10 pills for a buck) keep you up 14 hours and thus he produced a lot of stories and dying young from heart problems do doubt induced by over use of the speed. They saw a future that never arrived and predicted a future that did arrive, Oh how I miss those stories and the either the hope for a better world or the mushroom shape that we so far have missed by a sheer luck. Think this version of the black plague is bad? Wait for the shape of things to come and shudder.
"..and war had bred a pestilence.." Wow. This is a fine-wrought little jewel of a scifi short-story. I recommend it to beginning readers of Science-Fiction.
I read a creepy short story once about a baby that was born who had a weird power (it didn't say it was a demon, but...). The doctor that came to the house to assist the birth wanted to kill it but the mom wouldn't let him. Then when the doctor goes to leave he opens the front door.... and the world is gone.
Imagination is being bled out us as a species- compliments of the powers that be that control the matrix we live under. just like silence and contemplation they will soon be forgotten aspects of human life that made living quite wonderful
This story seems to be the missing link between older linear classic science fiction and the '60's new wave of speculative fiction of writers like Roger Zelazny, J.G.Ballard and Brian Aldiss in whose work traditional plot structure is less important than creating a surreal open-ended experience for the reader.
BananaRepublicUSA KangarooCourts If everyone is looking down at their smart phones and you walk into their space unnoticed - is it possible you don’t exist ;-)
Einstein refused to believe the moon isn't there when no one is looking at it, and he believed quantum mechanics is incomplete because it doesn't model local hidden (hidden means unmeasurable) variables and thus quantum mechanics appeared to include fundamental randomness. It was only extremists like Niels Bohr who believed the moon doesn't exist when no one is looking at it, and that idea isn't part of mainstream quantum mechanics today. Einstein accepted that quantum mechanics predictions were correct, although limited by our ignorance of hidden variables. Experimental tests of Bell inequality have established that Einstein was wrong about local hidden variables and Separability (also known as Locality, in other words no ”spooky action at a distance”) but the experiments haven't established fundamental randomness nor ”completeness” of quantum mechanics because there may be non-local hidden variables. Not sure why you called quantum mechanics ”the Theory of Everything,” which Einstein never gave up hope of discovering.
The man writes that matter as we perceive it is only perceived that way because of human thoughts holding it together. As a prominent war is happening, the story says that billions are dead. This means billions less people and less thoughts to keep reality intact. Therefore, reality begins to unravel the more people die. The protagonist only survives this long because his thoughts are keeping his house, his room, and himself intact. TL;DR: The protagonist dies because of the unraveling of reality.
Good Sci-Fi questions our humanity and takes us into the unknown so we can see beyond ourselves. I know many of us today in the time of this recent pandemic are facing unchartered territory or space if you like with a brave face so we can going boldly into a dark future - just keep your portable light burning so it can light the pages of a good sci-fi book and let the many possibilities of tomorrow guide your journey without fear.
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I think we were richer in Sci-fi literature back in the 50's, 60's & 70's, than today. Short stories are of a lost art. These magazines were a treat, every month, when I saved my allowance to buy these periodicals. I would fire up my flashlight in a clichèd blanket fort, & read these until I passed out. Technology has allowed us to archive these stories (thankfully). I feel like I'm 11 again, when I listen to these. I can't praise this RUclipsr enough. Thanks for this collection.
plus.google.com/u/0/collection/4E0mEE Give these a try, if your up to a good short read, and let me know if you dropped in, if you will. Thank you.
These were the best kind of sci-fi stories, the ones that have a crazy twist at the end.
I'm 26 and I absolutely love the stories from the golden age of sci-fi.
No one writes them like that anymore.
I've been trying to write my own but I'm a terrible writer.
@@maxwellmorgan8014 Google Plus is gone, do you have other links?
@@kingoffire9373 Keep swinging. Your perspective and interest is a much needed thing in these mindless times.
Love that image. I imagine a Sand Lot image
There is nothing like Clifford Simak story. Pure beauty.
Try Murray Leinster.
Scott De Roy. Will do and thanks for the heads up. 🇨🇦❤️
@@scottderoy9609 Yes, newly discovered, very good.
The real deal. An example of sci-fi at it's finest, not ruined by bad narration either. This particular narrator is splendid, actually.
Thanks; that was me. I've only just noticed this post on youtube. The original recording was made for the LibriVox site. Peter Yearsley
This narrator has my full endorsement to read all things into my ears for all time in all timelines in all metamultiverses.
Agree!
I read it; I've only just noticed this posting. Peter Yearsley (read for LibriVox).
A world gone by. I too remember saving my allowance and going to little Empire Market (we called it the vampire market) and it had the best selection of sci fi books and short stories anywhere at the time. Imagine 35 pennies and gallon of gas 24 pennies. We all knew the authors, Simak, Heinlein, Phillip K Dick, speeding along high on benzedrine ( 10 pills for a buck) keep you up 14 hours and thus he produced a lot of stories and dying young from heart problems do doubt induced by over use of the speed. They saw a future that never arrived and predicted a future that did arrive, Oh how I miss those stories and the either the hope for a better world or the mushroom shape that we so far have missed by a sheer luck. Think this version of the black plague is bad? Wait for the shape of things to come and shudder.
Thanks for this. Outstanding. Great narration. Has a great Twilight Zone feeling about it.
Yeah. I was seeing the original Twilight Zone while listening.
Yes, this is one of the better stories.
wonderful narrator!
"..and war had bred a pestilence.."
Wow. This is a fine-wrought little jewel of a scifi short-story.
I recommend it to beginning readers of Science-Fiction.
I read a creepy short story once about a baby that was born who had a weird power (it didn't say it was a demon, but...). The doctor that came to the house to assist the birth wanted to kill it but the mom wouldn't let him. Then when the doctor goes to leave he opens the front door.... and the world is gone.
Imagination is being bled out us as a species- compliments of the powers that be that control the matrix we live under. just like silence and contemplation they will soon be forgotten aspects of human life that made living quite wonderful
Nah! It's you!
Nah..its snot!
Life is what YOU make of it
True enough you gotta fight to stay an individual
This is what classic Sci-fi looks like.
Great story!
This story seems to be the missing link between older linear classic science fiction and the '60's new wave of speculative fiction of writers like Roger Zelazny, J.G.Ballard and Brian Aldiss in whose work traditional plot structure is less important than creating a surreal open-ended experience for the reader.
Erudite if not scholarly observation 👍
If I remember right, Simak and Van Vogt were two of the writers who were looked at as mentors to the new wave writers.
any sci Fi audio story's r good for me,!!! many thanks
Gripping.. Very Good
Read CITY(1950)by Simak and see your future darkly!!
We are our perception. Almost a sad story of dementure.
Reminiscent of the Book 'Langoliers'. Before a second can follow its predecessor everything must be erased, so the next second can exist.
King has wrote a short story about places that were there but not.
Nice observation
My favorite kind of Sci Fi
Nice narrative here-
Is THAT were "The Little Man Who Wasn't...", lived?😮. 🤓😎✌🏻
The theory of everything. Einstein called it spooky science. He said. "So when I'm not looking at the moon it's not there?" He refused to believe it.
BananaRepublicUSA KangarooCourts If everyone is looking down at their smart phones and you walk into their space unnoticed - is it possible you don’t exist ;-)
Scott De Roy , You replied, therefore I am. 🙂
Einstein refused to believe the moon isn't there when no one is looking at it, and he believed quantum mechanics is incomplete because it doesn't model local hidden (hidden means unmeasurable) variables and thus quantum mechanics appeared to include fundamental randomness. It was only extremists like Niels Bohr who believed the moon doesn't exist when no one is looking at it, and that idea isn't part of mainstream quantum mechanics today. Einstein accepted that quantum mechanics predictions were correct, although limited by our ignorance of hidden variables. Experimental tests of Bell inequality have established that Einstein was wrong about local hidden variables and Separability (also known as Locality, in other words no ”spooky action at a distance”) but the experiments haven't established fundamental randomness nor ”completeness” of quantum mechanics because there may be non-local hidden variables. Not sure why you called quantum mechanics ”the Theory of Everything,” which Einstein never gave up hope of discovering.
If a tree falls in an empty forest....
I live on that street..
who narrates this?
mirzamay
Peter Yeardsly
> set for one year...
I did not get the ending on that story ?
he was disappearing?
The man writes that matter as we perceive it is only perceived that way because of human thoughts holding it together. As a prominent war is happening, the story says that billions are dead. This means billions less people and less thoughts to keep reality intact. Therefore, reality begins to unravel the more people die. The protagonist only survives this long because his thoughts are keeping his house, his room, and himself intact.
TL;DR: The protagonist dies because of the unraveling of reality.
@@zenaren It's a plague, not a war. He says the Wars had long ended, but a plague was decimating populations.
“cube shaped Domes???
Well, I am the man who wasn't there. Okay?
Sometimes my books disappear and then reappear
I personally know of several experiences like Mr Chambers’.
Is Novel Coronavirus 19 simply the beginning of a Truth told long ago in a Science Fiction Story?
No
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Good Sci-Fi questions our humanity and takes us into the unknown so we can see beyond ourselves. I know many of us today in the time of this recent pandemic are facing unchartered territory or space if you like with a brave face so we can going boldly into a dark future - just keep your portable light burning so it can light the pages of a good sci-fi book and let the many possibilities of tomorrow guide your journey without fear.
Well said
Saturday
Terrible ending.