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Bread Overhead
Fritz Leiber
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"Bread Overhead" is a story Fritz Leiber could have written to send up today's bewildering bread aisle -- all those claims of low-cal and low-low-carb. Leiber slyly imagines a near-future when giant machines not only harvest the wheat field, but grind flour and bake bread on the spot -- the ultimate in big farming. In this toasted tomorrow, the highly-mechanized Puffy Products is bent on producing the supremely lightest loaf. The story is what happens if bread isn't just airy, but pumped full of lighter-than-air helium. Leiber ("Ships to the Stars") didn't often bake up such a souffle of spoof, but he's a master in the kitchen. And "Bread Overhead" has just enough to say about human nature to be filling, besides
"Bread Overhead" is a story Fritz Leiber could have written to send up today's bewildering bread aisle -- all those claims of low-cal and low-low-carb. Leiber slyly imagines a near-future when giant machines not only harvest the wheat field, but grind flour and bake bread on the spot -- the ultimate in big farming. In this toasted tomorrow, the highly-mechanized Puffy Products is bent on producing the supremely lightest loaf. The story is what happens if bread isn't just airy, but pumped full of lighter-than-air helium. Leiber ("Ships to the Stars") didn't often bake up such a souffle of spoof, but he's a master in the kitchen. And "Bread Overhead" has just enough to say about human nature to be filling, besides
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Brilliant satire transitioning from the ridiculous to the sublime
The author provides a brilliant short story which starts as a piece of triviality and moves on to take on corporate corruption and government complicity within the capitalistic system.
This is a simply comical short story, featuring an almost implausible obsession with "light bread". Compared however to the equally implausible trends we live through every day in our culture, it is not as absurd as we might like to think. Leiber's comic tone also softens the absurdity.
A sci-fi short story about a society obsessed with bread. Alright.
Hilarious!
Old-Timey SF.
what would you do when bread takes to the sky in flocks of millions, terrorising cities?
Now what if is this was all planned by an evil robot uprising, taking advantage of our consumerist tendencies to destabilize our society?!
that is why i love reading old sci-fi stories