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"Science Fiction is speculative fiction in which the author takes as his first postulate the real world as we know it, including all established facts and natural laws."
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The adjustable house, in this case a "haunted" house, operated by remote control:
“Third bank—windows and doors. Fourth—ventilators, and such furniture as we decided to animate. Including Brother Chulian’s over-affectionate couch.” He patted a half dozen keys tenderly.
“Tell me,” asked Sharlson Naurya, leaning forward curiously, “did the people of the Golden Age usually have houses that played such tricks?”
“Asmodeus, no! They were just a fad, I imagine, and a very expensive one. The idea was to have a house whose shape you could change to suit your fancy. Say you had a big crowd in for a party and needed a larger ballroom. You just activated the proper controls and—presto!—the walls would recede. And why not make it an oval or octagonal room while you were at it? Just as easy!”
He laughed happily.
“Of course, it all worked in slow motion. But when our investigations showed that the old equipment was still pretty much in order, it was very simple to shove in more power and speed up the tempo, so that the old place could dance a jig if we wanted it to. Then we hitched up our remote controls, and there we were!”
Compare to the psychotropic house from The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista (1962) by J.G. Ballard. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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