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* BrainUploading: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld", by Creator/FrederickPohl, Guy Burckhardt is creeped out by the robots at the factory. His business partner tells him that each of the machines there operates with the uploaded memories and minds of actual human beings. [[spoiler:When the inhabitants of Tylerton were killed in a chemical explosion, including Guy, their minds were transferred into miniature robots the same way. Now Dorchin uses them as advertising test subjects.]]
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* BrainUploading: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld", by Creator/FrederickPohl, Creator/FrederikPohl, Guy Burckhardt is creeped out by the robots at the factory. His business partner tells him that each of the machines there operates with the uploaded memories and minds of actual human beings. [[spoiler:When the inhabitants of Tylerton were killed in a chemical explosion, including Guy, their minds were transferred into miniature robots the same way. Now Dorchin uses them as advertising test subjects.]]
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* SmallSecludedWorld: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld" by Creator/FrederickPohl, Mr Burckhardt wakes up from a terrible nightmare on June 15th. [[GroundhogDayLoop The next day, he wakes up from a terrible nightmare on June 15th.]] He finally realizes the loop when he falls asleep in his basement and isn't "reset". When he confronts the person responsible for this situation, [[spoiler:he learns that the entire town was destroyed by a chemical plant explosion and everyone's [[BrainUploading minds were put in robot bodies]] to test {{Advertising}} strategies. They repeat the same day over and over again to avoid spoiling the experiment. Mr Burckhardt is incensed about the lack of ethics from this exercise, and demands to be allowed to leave the city. Upon leaving the city, he learns that robots are all miniatures and the entire recreated town is basically on a tabletop.]]
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* SmallSecludedWorld: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld" by Creator/FrederickPohl, Mr Creator/FrederikPohl, Mr. Burckhardt wakes up from a terrible nightmare on June 15th. [[GroundhogDayLoop The next day, he wakes up from a terrible nightmare on June 15th.]] He finally realizes the loop when he falls asleep in his basement and isn't "reset". When he confronts the person responsible for this situation, [[spoiler:he learns that the entire town was destroyed by a chemical plant explosion and everyone's [[BrainUploading minds were put in robot bodies]] to test {{Advertising}} strategies. They repeat the same day over and over again to avoid spoiling the experiment. Mr Mr. Burckhardt is incensed about the lack of ethics from this exercise, and demands to be allowed to leave the city. Upon leaving the city, he learns that robots are all miniatures miniatures, and the entire recreated town is basically on a tabletop.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld" by Creator/FrederickPohl, Guy Burckhart is convinced that some sinister conspiracy is keeping the citizens of his town stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop by erasing their memories every night. He eventually learns [[spoiler:he and everyone else in the town were killed in an explosion, and their [[BrainUploading consciousnesses have been installed into tiny androids]] in a [[SmallSecludedWorld scale model town]] where they repeat their final day over and over while researchers use them to test the effectiveness of {{Advertising}} jingles and political slogans.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld" by Creator/FrederickPohl, Creator/FrederikPohl, Guy Burckhart is convinced that some sinister conspiracy is keeping the citizens of his town stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop by erasing their memories every night. He eventually learns [[spoiler:he and everyone else in the town were killed in an explosion, and their [[BrainUploading consciousnesses have been installed into tiny androids]] in a [[SmallSecludedWorld scale model town]] where they repeat their final day over and over while researchers use them to test the effectiveness of {{Advertising}} jingles and political slogans.]]
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The Wall Around the World and Other Science Fiction Stories
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The Wall Around the World and Other Science Fiction Stories
First published in 1979 by editor Creator/SusanMorris, this GenreAnthology contains six ScienceFiction stories, ranging in length from ShortStory to {{Novelette}}.
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!!Works in this anthology:
* "Preface", by Creator/SusanMorris
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* "{{Literature/Jokester}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1956)
* "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr (1952)
* "Literature/AnAlienAgony", by Creator/HarryHarrison (1962)
* "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld", by Creator/FrederikPohl (1955)
* "Literature/TheMonkeyWrench", by Creator/GordonRDickson (1951)
* "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld", by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell (1953)
[[/index]]
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!!Tropes appearing in this work:
* BrainUploading: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld", by Creator/FrederickPohl, Guy Burckhardt is creeped out by the robots at the factory. His business partner tells him that each of the machines there operates with the uploaded memories and minds of actual human beings. [[spoiler:When the inhabitants of Tylerton were killed in a chemical explosion, including Guy, their minds were transferred into miniature robots the same way. Now Dorchin uses them as advertising test subjects.]]
* FantasticScience: In "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, Kenneth Grearly is calls themselves a psychophysicist, someone who studies the physics of things like {{Telepathy}}. They chose that field of study because they have the ability to share feelings and thoughts with other people.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In "Literature/TheMonkeyWrench", a ShortStory by Creator/GordonRDickson, one of the characters demonstrates that their computer is susceptible to [[LogicBomb distraction by paradoxes]]. They decide to make their demonstration in the arctic, where the subsequent shutdown means the characters freeze to death.
* GroundhogDayLoop: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld", by Creator/FrederikPohl, Guy Burckhardt lives in a town where June 15th is repeated every day, but the inhabitants don't realize. It is later revealed that [[spoiler:everyone in the town is a miniature robot who was [[BrainUploading imprinted with the mind-pattern]] of a citizen from the real town, which was destroyed on June 14th. An {{advertising}} executive now uses them to test various marketing techniques.]]
* LogicBomb: In "Literature/TheMonkeyWrench", a ShortStory by Creator/GordonRDickson, one of the characters claims they can shut down the computer of the meteorologic arctic station with a paradox. To prove their point, they suggest a paradox to the machine, making it incapable of doing anything than computing the paradox. Ironically, [[GoneHorriblyRight this condemns him and his partner to freeze to death, as all the vital controls of the station were provided by the machine]].
* MasterOfIllusion: In "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, Kenneth Grearly has practiced his {{telepathy}} enough to conjure false images into another person's mind. He tries to control Lisa Waverly with this until she turns it around, making him believe in phantom cars, causing him to leap into the path of a real car.
* TheMissionary: In "Literature/AnAlienAgony", by Creator/HarryHarrison, Father Mark has been sent by the Missionary Society of Brother, representing Christianity, so that they might save the souls of the aliens by bringing the Good News of God to them. Garth, believing that ReligionIsWrong, is angry at Father Mark's arrival, and tries threatening, assaulting, and finally cajoling that the man doesn't try teaching religion to the Weskers.
* MockingSingSong: In "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld", by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell, Porgie mocks his cousin and his friends while flying around in his gliding machine by calling out an annoying sound; "Nyah, nyah, nyah".
--> "Nyah, nyah, nyah, you can't catch me!"
* {{Mutants}}: In "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, Kenneth and Lisa are humans who have developed {{telepathy}}, and Kenneth points out in a dream sending that they are probably the result of a similar mutation.
* PstandardPsychicPstance: In "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, Kenneth Grearly sends her his vision of her appearance while placing one hand to his temple.
* RedBaron: In "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld", by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell, characters speak of the Black Man, who has fire in his eyes, who can bring midnight at noon, and who cannot be beaten by any magic spell. The Black Man will take away anyone who tries to cross the titular wall.
* ReligionIsWrong: In "Literature/AnAlienAgony", by Creator/HarryHarrison, the planet Wesker has a stone-age tribe that has never created any superstition before. The arrival of [[TheMissionary Father Mark]], representing Christianity, destroys this "innocence". In order to prove the existence of God, the Weskers need a miracle, so they imitate the foundational miracle of Christianity by crucifying Father Mark. It didn't work. One of the Weskers warns Garth that if he doesn't leave the planet, the rest will want to try crucifixion again.
* SecretTest: In "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld", by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell, the people inside The Wall are learning how to cast magic, honing their minds for generations. However, there's occasionally someone who is willing to ignore magic and builds a machine instead to help them over the wall. If they do that, [[RedBaron the Black Man]] takes them away [[spoiler:to learn about the Outside, with the high-tech machines humans have made]].
* SmallSecludedWorld: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld" by Creator/FrederickPohl, Mr Burckhardt wakes up from a terrible nightmare on June 15th. [[GroundhogDayLoop The next day, he wakes up from a terrible nightmare on June 15th.]] He finally realizes the loop when he falls asleep in his basement and isn't "reset". When he confronts the person responsible for this situation, [[spoiler:he learns that the entire town was destroyed by a chemical plant explosion and everyone's [[BrainUploading minds were put in robot bodies]] to test {{Advertising}} strategies. They repeat the same day over and over again to avoid spoiling the experiment. Mr Burckhardt is incensed about the lack of ethics from this exercise, and demands to be allowed to leave the city. Upon leaving the city, he learns that robots are all miniatures and the entire recreated town is basically on a tabletop.]]
* {{Telepathy}}: In "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, Lisa and Kenneth meet by virtue of being able to inadvertently send thoughts and ideas by being in the same area.
* TomatoinTheMirror: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld" by Creator/FrederickPohl, Guy Burckhart is convinced that some sinister conspiracy is keeping the citizens of his town stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop by erasing their memories every night. He eventually learns [[spoiler:he and everyone else in the town were killed in an explosion, and their [[BrainUploading consciousnesses have been installed into tiny androids]] in a [[SmallSecludedWorld scale model town]] where they repeat their final day over and over while researchers use them to test the effectiveness of {{Advertising}} jingles and political slogans.]]
* TheWallAroundTheWorld: "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell, is the TropeNamer. The wall separates a smaller magic-dominated world from the larger science-dominated one.
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First published in 1979 by editor Creator/SusanMorris, this GenreAnthology contains six ScienceFiction stories, ranging in length from ShortStory to {{Novelette}}.
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!!Works in this anthology:
* "Preface", by Creator/SusanMorris
[[index]]
* "{{Literature/Jokester}}", by Creator/IsaacAsimov (1956)
* "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr (1952)
* "Literature/AnAlienAgony", by Creator/HarryHarrison (1962)
* "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld", by Creator/FrederikPohl (1955)
* "Literature/TheMonkeyWrench", by Creator/GordonRDickson (1951)
* "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld", by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell (1953)
[[/index]]
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!!Tropes appearing in this work:
* BrainUploading: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld", by Creator/FrederickPohl, Guy Burckhardt is creeped out by the robots at the factory. His business partner tells him that each of the machines there operates with the uploaded memories and minds of actual human beings. [[spoiler:When the inhabitants of Tylerton were killed in a chemical explosion, including Guy, their minds were transferred into miniature robots the same way. Now Dorchin uses them as advertising test subjects.]]
* FantasticScience: In "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, Kenneth Grearly is calls themselves a psychophysicist, someone who studies the physics of things like {{Telepathy}}. They chose that field of study because they have the ability to share feelings and thoughts with other people.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In "Literature/TheMonkeyWrench", a ShortStory by Creator/GordonRDickson, one of the characters demonstrates that their computer is susceptible to [[LogicBomb distraction by paradoxes]]. They decide to make their demonstration in the arctic, where the subsequent shutdown means the characters freeze to death.
* GroundhogDayLoop: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld", by Creator/FrederikPohl, Guy Burckhardt lives in a town where June 15th is repeated every day, but the inhabitants don't realize. It is later revealed that [[spoiler:everyone in the town is a miniature robot who was [[BrainUploading imprinted with the mind-pattern]] of a citizen from the real town, which was destroyed on June 14th. An {{advertising}} executive now uses them to test various marketing techniques.]]
* LogicBomb: In "Literature/TheMonkeyWrench", a ShortStory by Creator/GordonRDickson, one of the characters claims they can shut down the computer of the meteorologic arctic station with a paradox. To prove their point, they suggest a paradox to the machine, making it incapable of doing anything than computing the paradox. Ironically, [[GoneHorriblyRight this condemns him and his partner to freeze to death, as all the vital controls of the station were provided by the machine]].
* MasterOfIllusion: In "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, Kenneth Grearly has practiced his {{telepathy}} enough to conjure false images into another person's mind. He tries to control Lisa Waverly with this until she turns it around, making him believe in phantom cars, causing him to leap into the path of a real car.
* TheMissionary: In "Literature/AnAlienAgony", by Creator/HarryHarrison, Father Mark has been sent by the Missionary Society of Brother, representing Christianity, so that they might save the souls of the aliens by bringing the Good News of God to them. Garth, believing that ReligionIsWrong, is angry at Father Mark's arrival, and tries threatening, assaulting, and finally cajoling that the man doesn't try teaching religion to the Weskers.
* MockingSingSong: In "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld", by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell, Porgie mocks his cousin and his friends while flying around in his gliding machine by calling out an annoying sound; "Nyah, nyah, nyah".
--> "Nyah, nyah, nyah, you can't catch me!"
* {{Mutants}}: In "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, Kenneth and Lisa are humans who have developed {{telepathy}}, and Kenneth points out in a dream sending that they are probably the result of a similar mutation.
* PstandardPsychicPstance: In "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, Kenneth Grearly sends her his vision of her appearance while placing one hand to his temple.
* RedBaron: In "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld", by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell, characters speak of the Black Man, who has fire in his eyes, who can bring midnight at noon, and who cannot be beaten by any magic spell. The Black Man will take away anyone who tries to cross the titular wall.
* ReligionIsWrong: In "Literature/AnAlienAgony", by Creator/HarryHarrison, the planet Wesker has a stone-age tribe that has never created any superstition before. The arrival of [[TheMissionary Father Mark]], representing Christianity, destroys this "innocence". In order to prove the existence of God, the Weskers need a miracle, so they imitate the foundational miracle of Christianity by crucifying Father Mark. It didn't work. One of the Weskers warns Garth that if he doesn't leave the planet, the rest will want to try crucifixion again.
* SecretTest: In "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld", by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell, the people inside The Wall are learning how to cast magic, honing their minds for generations. However, there's occasionally someone who is willing to ignore magic and builds a machine instead to help them over the wall. If they do that, [[RedBaron the Black Man]] takes them away [[spoiler:to learn about the Outside, with the high-tech machines humans have made]].
* SmallSecludedWorld: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld" by Creator/FrederickPohl, Mr Burckhardt wakes up from a terrible nightmare on June 15th. [[GroundhogDayLoop The next day, he wakes up from a terrible nightmare on June 15th.]] He finally realizes the loop when he falls asleep in his basement and isn't "reset". When he confronts the person responsible for this situation, [[spoiler:he learns that the entire town was destroyed by a chemical plant explosion and everyone's [[BrainUploading minds were put in robot bodies]] to test {{Advertising}} strategies. They repeat the same day over and over again to avoid spoiling the experiment. Mr Burckhardt is incensed about the lack of ethics from this exercise, and demands to be allowed to leave the city. Upon leaving the city, he learns that robots are all miniatures and the entire recreated town is basically on a tabletop.]]
* {{Telepathy}}: In "Literature/CommandPerformance", by Creator/WalterMMillerJr, Lisa and Kenneth meet by virtue of being able to inadvertently send thoughts and ideas by being in the same area.
* TomatoinTheMirror: In "Literature/TheTunnelUnderTheWorld" by Creator/FrederickPohl, Guy Burckhart is convinced that some sinister conspiracy is keeping the citizens of his town stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop by erasing their memories every night. He eventually learns [[spoiler:he and everyone else in the town were killed in an explosion, and their [[BrainUploading consciousnesses have been installed into tiny androids]] in a [[SmallSecludedWorld scale model town]] where they repeat their final day over and over while researchers use them to test the effectiveness of {{Advertising}} jingles and political slogans.]]
* TheWallAroundTheWorld: "Literature/TheWallAroundTheWorld", a {{Novelette}} by Creator/TheodoreRCogswell, is the TropeNamer. The wall separates a smaller magic-dominated world from the larger science-dominated one.
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