![]() ![]() "The Waveries," by Frederic Brown (1944): 7.5 Also successful in the slow divulging of the other-worldliness of this place through fairly strange details (increasing automobile homogenization and 12-lane highways). ![]() This seems a bit overwrought even for the 1960s, but nonetheless Ballard finds humor in the story (drive with your eyes closed) and efficiency in the telling. I need to evaluate things differently then: like how much inventiveness, humor, wryness, or offbeatness there is in the exploration of that concern, no matter how rote and formulaic the exploration is by now, given its saturation in the culture. This is a problem I am sure to get often in this retrospective: handwringing over decades old problems, like the population bomb, gender trouble, or, a niche problem like subliminal advertising, as we see here. ![]() “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman The Shortest Science Fiction Story Ever Told ![]()
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