Tell HN: I finished the short story I started as a comment in 2018 Here it is: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Salad.pdf And here is the comment from 2018 (on an account I lost access to): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18579131 |
Tell HN: I finished the short story I started as a comment in 2018 Here it is: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Salad.pdf And here is the comment from 2018 (on an account I lost access to): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18579131 |
Asimov in The Robots of Dawn tossed in a curious device, a Spicer it was called. In the future all the spices are locked up in a little machine and elaborate gestures and secret controls are necessary to release them onto the food. It probably looked like some Bop-It! ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWIe0pD-AHs ) of the future.
Marshall Brain has written a story that imagines the gradualness of slipping into a dystopian future called Manna. It is a good read also ( https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 ). You should sit yourself down and make an anthology of these stories, all short and wildly different, for a book!
I like dependency-hell too. It would be funny if nuclear war had broken out while he was trying to make some coffee and he was too focused to notice.
Slice of sci-fi life pie is fun, but I always wonder why is this story being told? Is it a cautionary tale, or something that seems obscene to those of us who do not have eyes to see the beauty in it?
Is its' heartbeat electric or robotic?