The Creature from Cleveland Depths [Paperback]

Fritz Leiber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2009

Fritz Leiber's "The Creature from Cleveland Depths" might have sounded far-fetched fifty years ago -- a comic warning about people being bossed around by little machines that ride on their shoulders. But now, it seems to describe the real world of cell phones, Blackberries and iPods, and its prediction of terrible things to come isn't so easy to shrug off. 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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 76 pages
• Publisher: Aegypan (January 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1606642863
• ISBN-13: 978-1606642863
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Free SF Reader, April 5, 2008

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This review is from: The Creature from Cleveland Depths (Kindle Edition)

A Science Fiction Story

Tickler problems.


2.5 out of 5