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Coming Attraction
Fritz Leiber
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Women will always go on trying to attract men ...even when the future seems to have no future!
A future New York City has changed since a nuclear bomb left areas of radiation that threaten the residents. Women wear coverings over their faces as the latest fashion trend. An Englishman in New York saves a girl from a speeding coupe with fish hooks on its fender. He finds himself attracted and repelled by the girl in this classic story of future shock from a science-fiction grand master.
Women will always go on trying to attract men ...even when the future seems to have no future!
A future New York City has changed since a nuclear bomb left areas of radiation that threaten the residents. Women wear coverings over their faces as the latest fashion trend. An Englishman in New York saves a girl from a speeding coupe with fish hooks on its fender. He finds himself attracted and repelled by the girl in this classic story of future shock from a science-fiction grand master.
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My arm, still lightly circling her waist, felt her body trembling. I was answering the plea in that as much as in her voice when I said, "Certainly." She gave me an address south of Inferno, an apartment number and a time. She asked me my name and I told her.
"Hey, you!"
I turned obediently to the policeman's shout. He shooed away the small clucking crowd of masked women and barefaced men. Coughing from the smoke that the black coupe had thrown out, he asked for my papers. I handed him the essential ones.
He looked at them and then at me. "British Barter? How long will you be in New York?"
Suppressing the urge to say, "For as short a time as possible," I told him I'd be here for a week or so.
"May need you as a witness," he explained. "Those kids can't use smoke on us. When they do that, we pull them in."
He seemed to think the smoke w. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
A strange little story. Manhattan still registers higher than normal radiation levels due to war with the Soviet Union. Masks have become both a fashion statement and mandatory requirement for women. The reasons are never fully explained. A femme fatale pulls a visiting Englishman into a sick game.
-Read in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One-
Sensitive readers will rally against the themes here. I have no issue at all with troubling themes, I do however have issues with boring stories. There was some interesting world building here that just felt wasted on a poor story.
One of my favorite stories from Fritz Leiber.
Good but depressing short story set in a post-apocalyptic, radiation-affected New York.