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looking for the title of a sci-fi short story about odd object, 2 children and 4th or 5th dimension
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looking for the name of a sci-fi short story, 1980's or before. the plot is somewhat like:
father gives kids odd object to play with. the kids play with the object. kids discover 4th of 5th dimension and disappear. father spends rest of his life trying to figure out the object. a quote is from father asking one the children about some pretty view or object and child answers to the effect of "it's not quite right".
story-identification short-stories
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looking for the name of a sci-fi short story, 1980's or before. the plot is somewhat like:
father gives kids odd object to play with. the kids play with the object. kids discover 4th of 5th dimension and disappear. father spends rest of his life trying to figure out the object. a quote is from father asking one the children about some pretty view or object and child answers to the effect of "it's not quite right".
story-identification short-stories
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:41
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There was a similar X Minus One radio play "Star, Bright".
– user22997
Feb 18 '14 at 23:00
possibly the same as scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/374/…
– Otis
May 1 '18 at 1:24
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looking for the name of a sci-fi short story, 1980's or before. the plot is somewhat like:
father gives kids odd object to play with. the kids play with the object. kids discover 4th of 5th dimension and disappear. father spends rest of his life trying to figure out the object. a quote is from father asking one the children about some pretty view or object and child answers to the effect of "it's not quite right".
story-identification short-stories
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:41
Kevin♦
26.5k11111157
asked Feb 18 '14 at 18:06
byoungbyoung
513
looking for the name of a sci-fi short story, 1980's or before. the plot is somewhat like:
father gives kids odd object to play with. the kids play with the object. kids discover 4th of 5th dimension and disappear. father spends rest of his life trying to figure out the object. a quote is from father asking one the children about some pretty view or object and child answers to the effect of "it's not quite right".
story-identification short-stories
story-identification short-stories
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:41
Kevin♦
26.5k11111157
asked Feb 18 '14 at 18:06
byoungbyoung
513
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:41
Kevin♦
26.5k11111157
asked Feb 18 '14 at 18:06
byoungbyoung
513
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:41
Kevin♦
26.5k11111157
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:41
Kevin♦
26.5k11111157
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:41
Kevin♦
26.5k11111157
26.5k11111157
asked Feb 18 '14 at 18:06
byoungbyoung
513
asked Feb 18 '14 at 18:06
byoungbyoung
513
asked Feb 18 '14 at 18:06
byoungbyoung
513
513
There was a similar X Minus One radio play "Star, Bright".
– user22997
Feb 18 '14 at 23:00
possibly the same as scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/374/…
– Otis
May 1 '18 at 1:24
add a comment |
There was a similar X Minus One radio play "Star, Bright".
– user22997
Feb 18 '14 at 23:00
possibly the same as scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/374/…
– Otis
May 1 '18 at 1:24
There was a similar X Minus One radio play "Star, Bright".
– user22997
Feb 18 '14 at 23:00
There was a similar X Minus One radio play "Star, Bright".
– user22997
Feb 18 '14 at 23:00
possibly the same as scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/374/…
– Otis
May 1 '18 at 1:24
possibly the same as scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/374/…
– Otis
May 1 '18 at 1:24
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That's "Mimsy Were The Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym for Henry Kutter and C. L. Moore).
To quote the Wikipedia article linked above:
Millions of years in the distant future, a posthuman scientist experimenting with a technologically advanced time machine sends two boxes with hastily gathered batches of educational toys into the past. The first arrives in the middle of the twentieth century and the second in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Believing the experiment to be a failure when the machines and test objects fail to return, he discontinues his efforts to help save his highly, superhumanly evolved home world.
[...]
In 1942, Emma and Scott encounter Carroll's fantasy book Through the Looking-Glass, containing the poem "Jabberwocky". In its words they identify the missing element of a time-space equation enabling them to travel to the alien destination. (The unusual title of the short story is a phrase from the poem.) Their father arrives in the doorway of Scott's bedroom as the children vanish in a direction he could not understand at all.
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Sounds like Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore) originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in Feb 1943;
There's a copy to read online here
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:31
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answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:12
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I've given you the +1 because you were a minute quicker :-)
– Valorum
Feb 18 '14 at 21:58
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Sounds similar to the short story I am looking for. It was about the 4th and 5th dimension. I remember it as (vaguely) titled - "the iif if the Oof" (phoneticly correct, but I'm not sure if that was the real title). Our student teacher, who went to Harvard (I know who goes to Harvard to be a drop dead gorgeous Sci-Fi Lit high school teacher!) gave it to us to read in 1992/3. It was on maybe 10 pages. It's killing me to find it again! I'll check out the previous reference and movie to see but that doesn't sound right.
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That's "Mimsy Were The Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym for Henry Kutter and C. L. Moore).
To quote the Wikipedia article linked above:
Millions of years in the distant future, a posthuman scientist experimenting with a technologically advanced time machine sends two boxes with hastily gathered batches of educational toys into the past. The first arrives in the middle of the twentieth century and the second in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Believing the experiment to be a failure when the machines and test objects fail to return, he discontinues his efforts to help save his highly, superhumanly evolved home world.
[...]
In 1942, Emma and Scott encounter Carroll's fantasy book Through the Looking-Glass, containing the poem "Jabberwocky". In its words they identify the missing element of a time-space equation enabling them to travel to the alien destination. (The unusual title of the short story is a phrase from the poem.) Their father arrives in the doorway of Scott's bedroom as the children vanish in a direction he could not understand at all.
answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:10
Mike ScottMike Scott
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That's "Mimsy Were The Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym for Henry Kutter and C. L. Moore).
To quote the Wikipedia article linked above:
Millions of years in the distant future, a posthuman scientist experimenting with a technologically advanced time machine sends two boxes with hastily gathered batches of educational toys into the past. The first arrives in the middle of the twentieth century and the second in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Believing the experiment to be a failure when the machines and test objects fail to return, he discontinues his efforts to help save his highly, superhumanly evolved home world.
[...]
In 1942, Emma and Scott encounter Carroll's fantasy book Through the Looking-Glass, containing the poem "Jabberwocky". In its words they identify the missing element of a time-space equation enabling them to travel to the alien destination. (The unusual title of the short story is a phrase from the poem.) Their father arrives in the doorway of Scott's bedroom as the children vanish in a direction he could not understand at all.
answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:10
Mike ScottMike Scott
50.4k4159205
add a comment |
That's "Mimsy Were The Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym for Henry Kutter and C. L. Moore).
To quote the Wikipedia article linked above:
Millions of years in the distant future, a posthuman scientist experimenting with a technologically advanced time machine sends two boxes with hastily gathered batches of educational toys into the past. The first arrives in the middle of the twentieth century and the second in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Believing the experiment to be a failure when the machines and test objects fail to return, he discontinues his efforts to help save his highly, superhumanly evolved home world.
[...]
In 1942, Emma and Scott encounter Carroll's fantasy book Through the Looking-Glass, containing the poem "Jabberwocky". In its words they identify the missing element of a time-space equation enabling them to travel to the alien destination. (The unusual title of the short story is a phrase from the poem.) Their father arrives in the doorway of Scott's bedroom as the children vanish in a direction he could not understand at all.
answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:10
Mike ScottMike Scott
50.4k4159205
That's "Mimsy Were The Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym for Henry Kutter and C. L. Moore).
To quote the Wikipedia article linked above:
Millions of years in the distant future, a posthuman scientist experimenting with a technologically advanced time machine sends two boxes with hastily gathered batches of educational toys into the past. The first arrives in the middle of the twentieth century and the second in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Believing the experiment to be a failure when the machines and test objects fail to return, he discontinues his efforts to help save his highly, superhumanly evolved home world.
[...]
In 1942, Emma and Scott encounter Carroll's fantasy book Through the Looking-Glass, containing the poem "Jabberwocky". In its words they identify the missing element of a time-space equation enabling them to travel to the alien destination. (The unusual title of the short story is a phrase from the poem.) Their father arrives in the doorway of Scott's bedroom as the children vanish in a direction he could not understand at all.
answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:10
Mike ScottMike Scott
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answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:10
Mike ScottMike Scott
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answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:10
Mike ScottMike Scott
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answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:10
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Sounds like Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore) originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in Feb 1943;
There's a copy to read online here
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:31
Valorum
408k11029683190
answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:12
Michael BorgwardtMichael Borgwardt
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I've given you the +1 because you were a minute quicker :-)
– Valorum
Feb 18 '14 at 21:58
add a comment |
Sounds like Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore) originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in Feb 1943;
There's a copy to read online here
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:31
Valorum
408k11029683190
answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:12
Michael BorgwardtMichael Borgwardt
15.3k25581
I've given you the +1 because you were a minute quicker :-)
– Valorum
Feb 18 '14 at 21:58
add a comment |
Sounds like Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore) originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in Feb 1943;
There's a copy to read online here
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:31
Valorum
408k11029683190
answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:12
Michael BorgwardtMichael Borgwardt
15.3k25581
Sounds like Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore) originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in Feb 1943;
There's a copy to read online here
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:31
Valorum
408k11029683190
answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:12
Michael BorgwardtMichael Borgwardt
15.3k25581
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:31
Valorum
408k11029683190
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:31
Valorum
408k11029683190
edited Feb 18 '14 at 18:31
Valorum
408k11029683190
408k11029683190
answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:12
Michael BorgwardtMichael Borgwardt
15.3k25581
answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:12
Michael BorgwardtMichael Borgwardt
15.3k25581
answered Feb 18 '14 at 18:12
Michael BorgwardtMichael Borgwardt
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15.3k25581
I've given you the +1 because you were a minute quicker :-)
– Valorum
Feb 18 '14 at 21:58
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I've given you the +1 because you were a minute quicker :-)
– Valorum
Feb 18 '14 at 21:58
I've given you the +1 because you were a minute quicker :-)
– Valorum
Feb 18 '14 at 21:58
I've given you the +1 because you were a minute quicker :-)
– Valorum
Feb 18 '14 at 21:58
add a comment |
Sounds similar to the short story I am looking for. It was about the 4th and 5th dimension. I remember it as (vaguely) titled - "the iif if the Oof" (phoneticly correct, but I'm not sure if that was the real title). Our student teacher, who went to Harvard (I know who goes to Harvard to be a drop dead gorgeous Sci-Fi Lit high school teacher!) gave it to us to read in 1992/3. It was on maybe 10 pages. It's killing me to find it again! I'll check out the previous reference and movie to see but that doesn't sound right.
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Sounds similar to the short story I am looking for. It was about the 4th and 5th dimension. I remember it as (vaguely) titled - "the iif if the Oof" (phoneticly correct, but I'm not sure if that was the real title). Our student teacher, who went to Harvard (I know who goes to Harvard to be a drop dead gorgeous Sci-Fi Lit high school teacher!) gave it to us to read in 1992/3. It was on maybe 10 pages. It's killing me to find it again! I'll check out the previous reference and movie to see but that doesn't sound right.
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Sounds similar to the short story I am looking for. It was about the 4th and 5th dimension. I remember it as (vaguely) titled - "the iif if the Oof" (phoneticly correct, but I'm not sure if that was the real title). Our student teacher, who went to Harvard (I know who goes to Harvard to be a drop dead gorgeous Sci-Fi Lit high school teacher!) gave it to us to read in 1992/3. It was on maybe 10 pages. It's killing me to find it again! I'll check out the previous reference and movie to see but that doesn't sound right.
answered 3 mins ago
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Sounds similar to the short story I am looking for. It was about the 4th and 5th dimension. I remember it as (vaguely) titled - "the iif if the Oof" (phoneticly correct, but I'm not sure if that was the real title). Our student teacher, who went to Harvard (I know who goes to Harvard to be a drop dead gorgeous Sci-Fi Lit high school teacher!) gave it to us to read in 1992/3. It was on maybe 10 pages. It's killing me to find it again! I'll check out the previous reference and movie to see but that doesn't sound right.
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There was a similar X Minus One radio play "Star, Bright".
– user22997
Feb 18 '14 at 23:00
possibly the same as scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/374/…
– Otis
May 1 '18 at 1:24