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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Narsham posted:

Notice how you can’t see his right hand? That’s because instead of a hand, he has an entire miniature city populated with thousands of tiny people sticking out of the end of his arm.

That one time he forgot and scratched himself was a disaster of Biblical proportions for the populace.

There was a classic sf short story with more or less this premise.



ETA: It was "Starting from Scratch" by Robert Schekley. https://web.archive.org/web/20150317014706/http://www.american-buddha.com/sheckleycanyoufeel.7.htm

fritz fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Feb 2, 2024

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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Leperflesh posted:

The first Lovecraft I ever read was The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, which wasn't published until after Lovecraft's death. I didn't read any of the mythos stuff until I was out of college, many years later. It's jarring how different Kadath is from the much more popular Lovecraft.

Kij Johnson's The Dreamquest of Vellit Boe is a response to this and is great.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Hostile V posted:

Hey, in the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.

Aren’t we still in the time of chimpanzees

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