jeffh@brl-sem.ARPA (the Shadow) (09/19/85)
In article <292@proper.UUCP> judith@proper.UUCP (judith) writes: >>Anybody seen an interesting story about a boring race (i.e. us) ? > >Margaret St. Clair wrote a story in the '50s or so about a boring race. It, >and they, were called "Prott." They did nothing but bore humans. They were There was a story published earlier this year in one of the SF mag- azines (F&SF, maybe) called "The Aliens That Knew I Mean Everything." I forget the author's name, but the story was very enjoyable. They were humanoid, and they had opinions about everything (e.g. "The rest of the universe is just wild about hollyhocks."), which they felt duty- bound to impart to us poor, uncultured humans. They also had space- ships that ran on vacuum tubes. Finally, all the humans moved off- planet just to get away from them. Does anyone remember the author? "Mind you, moose bites can be very nasty." the Shadow ARPA: <jeffh@brl> UUCP: {seismo,decvax,cbosgd}!brl!jeffh
jimb@ISM780B.UUCP (09/21/85)
The author's name is George Alec Effinger. And I agree that it's a highly
hilarious little twirl, although I don't know about either race appearing
boring.
-- Jim Brunet -- The grunion are running, the grunion are running!
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