Re: Editors, royalty, and people with tapeworm
- From: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:57:57 -0500
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:07:44 +0000 (UTC), Eric Walker wrote:
[snip]
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:24:17 -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
[...]
There was a science-fiction story (by Asimov?) called "Spell My Name
with an S". The protagonist's name was Zebatinski, and he went to some
counselor, or made a deal with the devil, or something, receiving the
advice to change his name to Sebatinsky. All sorts of consequences
ensued.
He saw--I forget how it came about--a fortune-teller. It developed that
the "fortune-teller" was an avatar of an alien, one of two in a ship in a
hidden Earth orbit who had made a bet between them as to how large an
Well, something like that: that's entirely from memory. (And I can't
find anything of it on Google.)
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?58957
It was Isaac Asimov (1958), published in many anthologies. I believe
I read it in /Nine Tomorrows/.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...
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