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You are very welcome! Thank you for enjoying it :) More Retief is on the way

I hope the next one is more to your liking :)

You are very welcome! :) oh, there is always more where that came from...another story every day! ;)

he needed to get out of the kitchen!

What a stupid comment what do you get for 1st place

Seems like you may be mistaken this time.!😉 😉

Caterpillar sheds his skin to find there is a butterfly within :)

I am very happy you enjoyed it! Yes, there will be more Lancelot Biggs coming up in the foreseeable future :) Also, some of Mr. Bond's other humorous stories are to be expected.

It was published in the amateur magazine / fanzine Futuria Fantasia, edited by a teenaged Ray Bradbury, in California Issue: Spring 1940 vol. 1. no. 4.

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Sure you can! Let me lend you a hand, it won't cost an arm and a leg ;)

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Collared him good, didn't he? :)

They thought he was disarmed :)

Now you mention it , there certainly are some strong similarities. Slesar's story predates the Twilight Zone by a couple of years, and I would be surprised if Serling did not read avidly the pulps of the day. I think it is very common that writers are inspired by each other, taking an idea and putting their own spin on it. Nothing wrong with that, as long as they aren't verbatim rip-offs. Now we have two great stories with similar themes. Win-win! :)

@@futurespast-42 Given that it was only published the once in a small pulp (according to ISFDB) I don’t think Serling himself did read it. Serling himself was not much of an SF reader. According to Marc Scott Zicree, it was Ray Bradbury who gave Serling a reading list to get started on SF at the development stage of The Twilight Zone. I think it’s just one of those odd coincidences.

I stand corrected in my assumptions :) I honestly do not know all that much about the Twilight Zone creation process, and I was not accusing Serling or anything like that. Many themes do float around in the Zeitgeist, as you say. :)

@@futurespast-42 Oh I know you weren’t, and neither was I. It’s just one of those things. Zicree, who actually wrote the first book on TW, has a good video on the relationship between Serling and Bradbury and how the show came about that is worth watching. The interesting thing is: Serling did unintentionally plagiarise a Bradbury story for the pilot, and the latter never really got over it (at least according to Zicree).

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in my 20s

For my part, I believe I read one or two Lancelot Biggs stories in my teens, but I might be mistaken, remembering some other stories in the same style. It is several decades ago.

@@futurespast-42 We are not as young as we were ;-)

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You win this time.!!!. But I'll be back.!!. WOOHA HA HA HAHAAA!! 😉 😉 😝😝

That must have been grueling! Me, I think it is too hot if the temperature goes much above 25 degrees C / 77 F :)

I am the modern man....secret secret, I've got a secret! :)

@@futurespast-42 Domo🙂

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I, too, went a very long time reading about Lord Dunsany but not actually reading any of his works. To hear that others have much the same experience is a good reason to read more of them on here, as they are just excellent stories, laying the groundwork for Fantasy to come. :)

Thank you :) Duly noted!

@@karenarnold5613 How good is your Dutch?

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Excellent! I am very happy you enjoyed them :)

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Thank you for the trivia :) That sort of thing is always welcome! I really enjoy Nourse's stories, and will definitely be reading more of them on here :) You have seen the ones I did earlier?

That story is one of my favorites :) Makes me think of A Clockwork Orange (and this story is older by a few years). Thank you for your kind words! I am very happy you enjoy my readings :)

a case of "I was complaining about not having shoes, until I met a man without feet"? :)

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This. :)

I hope you like the next one better then :)

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Excellent! I am very happy you like them and that they help you find some rest :)

yes, they were a really nice touch :)

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