Talk:Knock (short-story)

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[edit] Asimov's Science Fiction mention

Seeing as I'm too tired to carry on, I hope some other Wikipedian can fulfill the task of inserting whatever appropriate mention of "Knock" from my blog... It's being derived from an article on New Wave (science fiction) from a 1984 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction.

If done well enough, the two articles should tie-in nicely with each other. DrWho42 22:37, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Literary criticism

The word "alone" could be omitted from the story. As it was written, the story is unecessarily long.

[edit] Completely rewrote article for accuracy

With respect to the original author, most of the original article was incorrect. The seventeen-word short-short story was not published as a standalone story; "Knock" is several-thousand-word story about Walter Phelan, a story that begins with a description of the quoted two-sentence story. The audio versions are adaptations of the full story; they didn't invent the Walter Phelan/alien zoo stuff. I have thoroughly rewritten the article (and removed some phrases that didn't make any sense) to match the actual story, which I have here in front of me in the NESFA Press book From These Ashes: The complete Short SF of Fredric Brown. --Elysdir 04:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC)