Re: Anyone remember these stories?
- From: "Dan Goodman" <dsgood@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 03 Sep 2006 03:23:33 GMT
michael.alan.freed@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
There are a couple of short stories that have stayed with me over the
years, but whose titles and authors are long lost to memory. Does
anyone else remember these?
1. A future tech / magic world. A guy is driving around in his car
which has all the current standard features. A roc (giant bird)
swoops down, swallows his car with him in it and later dies of
indigestion. Fortunately, standard car features include an air
generator, lots of food and water, entertainment.. The guy waits
months for the bird to decompose and finally drives away, irritated
that his car doesn't include shaving equipment and intending to
complain to the manufacturer.
It _might_ be this:
Title: Safe at Any Speed
Author: Larry Niven
Year: 1967
Series: Known Space
Publications:
* The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1967 (1967 , $0.50,
130pp) Cover: Ron Walotsky
* The Shape of Space (1969 , Ballantine, #01712, $0.75, 244pp, pb)
* Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven (1975 ,
Ballantine, 0345245636, $1.50, xiv+240pp, pb) Cover: Rick Sternbach
* Tales of Known Space (1975 )
* 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978 , Doubleday, hc)
2. Magic works and follows the "square law" -- i.e. a wizard isn't
able to affect nearby things very much but has spectacular power of
distant things. Two wizards of opposing moral philosophies get into a
duel. They end up pushing each other in opposite directions off the
planet and at speeds ever more closely approaching the speed of light,
sustaining each other's lives against vacuum, acceleration and such.
Over the millenia, they influence events on Earth in God vs. Devil
fashion. But their influence is curtailed by relativistic effects
making things on Earth go by almost too fast for them to follow.
--
Dan Goodman
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