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97.89.55.123 Since: Dec, 1969
2011-07-01 22:38:18

Isn't that kind of where the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses" came from? I've never read anything like that in the Hugo Award winners anthology I picked up at a garage sale last month, and that book had "I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream" in it. Maybe you could check the websites for Analog or Asimov's Science Fact and Fiction.

TheNinth Since: Nov, 2009
2011-10-05 09:15:09

So far no luck with this one. Searching through archives of short stories has so far increased my "to read" list but not turned up the story I'm looking for.

Mom says that in the same anthology is a story about a man who, while at a comedy club, realizes he's the last intelligent man (which is a lousy search string).

TheNinth Since: Nov, 2009
2012-11-30 06:51:41

Can't believe it's been over a year. Maybe some new faces will recognize this.

FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
2012-12-05 01:18:03

I keep seeing this query as months go by, and now I'm dying to know what it is, too.

FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
DataAngel Since: Jan, 2013
2013-10-21 13:51:14

Where there's life, there's hope.

"Sources of The Nile" (Avram Davidson) was suggested on Library Thing and that MIGHT be it. Waiting for a copy of the book now.

Powered up in 1971. Brought online in 1982.
DataAngel Since: Jan, 2013
2013-11-04 06:29:26

Aaaand that's not it. Good story but not the right one.

Back to the mines.

Powered up in 1971. Brought online in 1982.
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