A for Anything
sep. 2011 · Hachette UK
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We call it a gismo.
That's right, a gismo.
A bit difficult to describe. Like a cross, I suppose, without the top part. Sort of two arms on a stand.
What happens is this. You hang something on one arm. Anything at all. A watch, a bracelet, money, anything. I supposed you could hang a locomotive on, only it's a bit heavy.
But anyway you hang something on and there on the opposite arm appears an exact replica. And I mean exact.
You can't tell the difference.
So nobody need make anything any more. What you need you hang on the gismo. No work. No want. No starvation. No nothing.
When you've got a gismo, you've got everything.
That's right, a gismo.
A bit difficult to describe. Like a cross, I suppose, without the top part. Sort of two arms on a stand.
What happens is this. You hang something on one arm. Anything at all. A watch, a bracelet, money, anything. I supposed you could hang a locomotive on, only it's a bit heavy.
But anyway you hang something on and there on the opposite arm appears an exact replica. And I mean exact.
You can't tell the difference.
So nobody need make anything any more. What you need you hang on the gismo. No work. No want. No starvation. No nothing.
When you've got a gismo, you've got everything.
Om forfatteren
Damon Knight (1922 - 2002) Damon Francis Knight was born in Oregon in 1922. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in modern science fiction, having made significant contributions to the field as an author, editor and critic. Knight co-founded the Milford Writers' Conference, the influential Clarion Workshop and the Science Fiction Writers of America, serving as its first president from 1965-67. Around this time he also made his reputation as one of the field's foremost anthologists. Beginning with reprint collections, in 1966 he launched the influential Orbit series of original anthologies. Starting with Orbit 1, the series would continue for over a decade, concluding in 1980 with Orbit 21. Orbit was the longest running and most influential anthology series in SF up to that point, showcasing such important authors as Gene Wolfe, R.A. Lafferty and Knight's third wife, Kate Wilhelm. A master of short fiction, Damon Knight is best known in wider circles as the author of 'To Serve Mankind', which was adapted for The Twilight Zone and later spoofed in a Hallowe'en episode of The Simpsons. He was granted the SFWA's Grand Master Award in 1995, and in 2002, SFWA renamed it the Damon Knight Grand Master Award in his honour. He died in 2002.
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