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Sci-Fi Radio 25 - The Twonky by Lewis Padgett
Sci-Fi Radio 25 - The Twonky by Lewis Padgett
Lewis Padgett is a pen name for C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner.
This is an example of indirect first contact gone wrong and is in the same sub-genre as Kornbluth's 'The Little Black Bag'. You can generally be sure that dropping unfamiliar advanced technology into an unsuspecting person's hands is going to go wrong but not necessarily how. I do wonder if there is a benevolent purpose to a Twonky, because I am not seeing it.
I think details of the story were changed for the play. The technology is more advanced than one would expect in a 1940s era story and I don't recall anyone dying in the original.
Lewis Padgett is a pen name for C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner.
This is an example of indirect first contact gone wrong and is in the same sub-genre as Kornbluth's 'The Little Black Bag'. You can generally be sure that dropping unfamiliar advanced technology into an unsuspecting person's hands is going to go wrong but not necessarily how. I do wonder if there is a benevolent purpose to a Twonky, because I am not seeing it.
I think details of the story were changed for the play. The technology is more advanced than one would expect in a 1940s era story and I don't recall anyone dying in the original.
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