Friday, July 4, 2008

Pamela Zoline's "The Heat Death of The Universe" (short story, non-genre, humor, free): A lighthearted description of a day in a woman's life

No great message or technology here, just a lot of smiles. And it's written in an unconventional format that made me futilely expect return to normalcy early in the story; but that's a feature.

Except for bizarre last para, it tells us of what a certain Sarah Boyle - married with an uncertain number of children, did during a certain day that also happened to be the birthday of one of her kids. And it tells the ordinary in a way that made me smile often.

Fact sheet.

First published: New Worlds, July 1967.
Rating: A
Download full text from Internet Archive.
Included in Ellen Datlow's Sci Fiction classics.

1 comment:

  1. FloydJuly 14, 2012 at 11:28 PM

    But the last paragraph is the whole point, and makes the story like "The Scream", also an indictment of our society.

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