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In a future war, an old lady is trying to raise a boy but one of the weapons has made everyone deaf
SF novel with “keepers of knowledge” who have to answer any question they're asked, but everyone else has to answer the questions they askDystopian future, an old novel where everyone only has a three day memory?Dissatisfied boy breaks the rules in a future society, technology has eliminated need to go outsideTrying to find a short story: telepathy has all but destroyed the female population of Earth. Returning astronauts offer hope of repopulationTrying to find old story of alien who looks like a dog, boy and dog go to the moonSci fi short story where technology made the future known but the government ensured that key events happened as predictedStory set in future Earth: in an enclosed megalopolis, an old man sends simulacra pigeons in the unhabitable outside, one day a real bird comes backBob Shaw short story, set in the Old West, a woman from the future takes refuge in the past, meets a man who has semi-crippled armsMovie: Scientists travel to the future to avoid nuclear war, last surviving one is used as fuel by future humansSpace war story from 1960s song “The Minstrel Boy to the War Has Gone”
A long time ago, I read a story about a future war. Everything is in ruins. An old lady is trying to raise a boy. But one weapon has made everyone deaf. When the boy does something bad, all she can do is hold up a card which says "No!". They can tell when the air raid siren goes off by the vibrations of the sirens causing beans to jump about in a tube. TV shows lots of old silent movies.
It may have been in an anthology.
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A long time ago, I read a story about a future war. Everything is in ruins. An old lady is trying to raise a boy. But one weapon has made everyone deaf. When the boy does something bad, all she can do is hold up a card which says "No!". They can tell when the air raid siren goes off by the vibrations of the sirens causing beans to jump about in a tube. TV shows lots of old silent movies.
It may have been in an anthology.
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This is a good start but can you take a look at this guide to see if there is anything else you can edit in? For example, you say "a long time ago", do you know roughly when that was?
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A long time ago, I read a story about a future war. Everything is in ruins. An old lady is trying to raise a boy. But one weapon has made everyone deaf. When the boy does something bad, all she can do is hold up a card which says "No!". They can tell when the air raid siren goes off by the vibrations of the sirens causing beans to jump about in a tube. TV shows lots of old silent movies.
It may have been in an anthology.
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A long time ago, I read a story about a future war. Everything is in ruins. An old lady is trying to raise a boy. But one weapon has made everyone deaf. When the boy does something bad, all she can do is hold up a card which says "No!". They can tell when the air raid siren goes off by the vibrations of the sirens causing beans to jump about in a tube. TV shows lots of old silent movies.
It may have been in an anthology.
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This is a good start but can you take a look at this guide to see if there is anything else you can edit in? For example, you say "a long time ago", do you know roughly when that was?
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This is a good start but can you take a look at this guide to see if there is anything else you can edit in? For example, you say "a long time ago", do you know roughly when that was?
– TheLethalCarrot
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This is a good start but can you take a look at this guide to see if there is anything else you can edit in? For example, you say "a long time ago", do you know roughly when that was?
– TheLethalCarrot
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This is a good start but can you take a look at this guide to see if there is anything else you can edit in? For example, you say "a long time ago", do you know roughly when that was?
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Almost certainly Brian Aldiss' “Dumb Show” (1956).
It's not a perfect match as the child is a girl, but everything else fits. The war is being fought with supersonic vibrations which have rendered everyone deaf, and at the end another version demolishes buildings and expands the people, until they get so big that their hearts fail. At the very end, little Pauline supposedly hears "a voice singing in a new universe".
It was anthologised in Aldiss' Space Time and Nathaniel, and no doubt elsewhere.
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And you can read it for free at archive.org/details/Nebula_19_1956-12/page/n21
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Almost certainly Brian Aldiss' “Dumb Show” (1956).
It's not a perfect match as the child is a girl, but everything else fits. The war is being fought with supersonic vibrations which have rendered everyone deaf, and at the end another version demolishes buildings and expands the people, until they get so big that their hearts fail. At the very end, little Pauline supposedly hears "a voice singing in a new universe".
It was anthologised in Aldiss' Space Time and Nathaniel, and no doubt elsewhere.
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And you can read it for free at archive.org/details/Nebula_19_1956-12/page/n21
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Almost certainly Brian Aldiss' “Dumb Show” (1956).
It's not a perfect match as the child is a girl, but everything else fits. The war is being fought with supersonic vibrations which have rendered everyone deaf, and at the end another version demolishes buildings and expands the people, until they get so big that their hearts fail. At the very end, little Pauline supposedly hears "a voice singing in a new universe".
It was anthologised in Aldiss' Space Time and Nathaniel, and no doubt elsewhere.
edited 9 hours ago
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Mike StoneMike Stone
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And you can read it for free at archive.org/details/Nebula_19_1956-12/page/n21
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Almost certainly Brian Aldiss' “Dumb Show” (1956).
It's not a perfect match as the child is a girl, but everything else fits. The war is being fought with supersonic vibrations which have rendered everyone deaf, and at the end another version demolishes buildings and expands the people, until they get so big that their hearts fail. At the very end, little Pauline supposedly hears "a voice singing in a new universe".
It was anthologised in Aldiss' Space Time and Nathaniel, and no doubt elsewhere.
edited 9 hours ago
Stormblessed
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answered 12 hours ago
Mike StoneMike Stone
5,17011439
Almost certainly Brian Aldiss' “Dumb Show” (1956).
It's not a perfect match as the child is a girl, but everything else fits. The war is being fought with supersonic vibrations which have rendered everyone deaf, and at the end another version demolishes buildings and expands the people, until they get so big that their hearts fail. At the very end, little Pauline supposedly hears "a voice singing in a new universe".
It was anthologised in Aldiss' Space Time and Nathaniel, and no doubt elsewhere.
edited 9 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,216633
answered 12 hours ago
Mike StoneMike Stone
5,17011439
edited 9 hours ago
Stormblessed
2,216633
edited 9 hours ago
Stormblessed
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Stormblessed
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2,216633
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answered 12 hours ago
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answered 12 hours ago
Mike StoneMike Stone
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5,17011439
And you can read it for free at archive.org/details/Nebula_19_1956-12/page/n21
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And you can read it for free at archive.org/details/Nebula_19_1956-12/page/n21
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– Alan
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And you can read it for free at archive.org/details/Nebula_19_1956-12/page/n21
– user14111
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And you can read it for free at archive.org/details/Nebula_19_1956-12/page/n21
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Thank you so much!
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Thank you so much!
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This is a good start but can you take a look at this guide to see if there is anything else you can edit in? For example, you say "a long time ago", do you know roughly when that was?
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