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The Knights of Arthur
Frederik Pohl
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Sailors Sam Dunlap and Arthur check in to a New York hotel to await their mate Vern Engdahl when a girl shows up proposing to purchase Arthur. They need guys like Arthur to help run the city, and the fact that he fits in a small suitcase is even better.
Sailors Sam Dunlap and Arthur check in to a New York hotel to await their mate Vern Engdahl when a girl shows up proposing to purchase Arthur. They need guys like Arthur to help run the city, and the fact that he fits in a small suitcase is even better.
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DURA AUK UKOO RQK MWS AQB
It stopped.
“Come on, Arthur,” I ordered impatiently. “Sort them out, will you?”
Laboriously it typed:
!!!
Then, for a time, there was a clacking and thumping as he typed random letters, peeping out of the suitcase to see what he had typed, until the sheet I had put in was used up.
I replaced it and waited, as patiently as I could, smoking one of the last of my cigarettes. After fifteen minutes or so, he had the hang of it pretty well. He typed:
YOU DAMQXXX DAMN FOOL WHUXXX WHY DID YOU LEAQNXXX LEAVE ME ALONE Q Q
“Aw, Arthur,” I said. “Use your head, will you? I couldn’t carry that old typewriter of yours all the way down through the Bronx. It was getting pretty beat-up. Anyway, I’ve only got two hands—”
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Community Reviews
Gobbled up this sci-fi tale to clear the "literary sci-fi" I'd just read out of my brain. A quick, fun read which holds up decently, but might have been even better fleshed out further.
A machine takes control of its ship and begins to bully its human crew.
Pohl's short story has the germ of a good idea, which is realised through the increasing paranoia of Arthur.
An enjoyable short story about making the most of your situation post apocalypse, it'll entertain and put a smile on your face.
I listened to this novella today, and thought it was fun. It's not very serious work, and there aren't many things here that I haven't come across in sci fi before, but it is done with some humor. (view spoiler)[It has things like a brain in a can hooked up to a typewriter so it can speak. (hide spoiler)] So for reading, or liste
A fun, post-apocalypse tall... what would your ideal place be to start civilization anew? How about the Queen Elizabeth?
Sturdy and imaginative, this post-apocalyptic tale makes for good, spoon-fed entertainment, so long as you take it on its own terms and accept that it was probably serialized for a pulp SF magazine before being published as a novella.
First things first: ‘The Knights of Arthur’ has nothing to do with King Arthur or his Knights of the Round Table. This is a short science fiction from Frederik Pohl written during the early days of the pulp-fiction with the plot set in a post-apocalyptic world… A quick and interesting read with a ce