(urth) Short Story 67: The Marvelous Brass Chess Playing Automaton

[Marc Aramini]

I don't think the geography is more like hell than any atmospheric
warming, post nuclear war society would be,  but I agree with the hansel
and gretel resonance... Wolfe has echoed that tale in at least two other
short stories ("in the house of gingerbread" and I think "the little
stranger") but those ones had witches.  This one only has the oven itself.

On Thursday, July 17, 2014, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com <
jwilson at clueland.com> wrote:

> On 7/17/2014 11:45 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> > weather satellites still in the air
>
> Unless you mean literally in the atmosphere, there's no particular reason
> they would stop orbiting; they might not *work* after a century of solar
> flares, though.
>
>  MYTHIC ALLUSIONS:
>>
>
> The perpetual heat and vague geography suggests to me they may be in Hell
> to some degree.
>
>  LITERARY ALLUSIONS:
>>
>
> We have a Hans and a Gretchen, and a woman killed in a hot oven - is this
> a coincidence?
>
> --
> Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
> A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
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