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The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Fritz Leiber, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Short Stories
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781606642863
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: Jan 1 2009
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Leiber sets the tale in a future when missiles are on the prowl, and most people live underground. George Gusterson is a writer with crazy ideas -- one being, he still lives on the surface. For another, he imagines a gizmo that would remind him of things like when to turn on the TV. George's mere whim inspires an actual gadget called the Tickler, just a wire recorder and clock at first, but then . . . it whispers constantly through an earphone. It instills positive thinking. It injects drugs. It makes decisions. It weights 28 pounds. And it won't get off. Only Gusterson understands what the little fellow perched on your shoulder is really saying, one word: Obey! And only Gusterson knows what to say back, if it's not too late.
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