For a Breath I Tarry
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WALL-E : Review : Rolling Stone...it 10 stars if i could. Jul 16, 2008 17:57:04 But I think the storyline is so much similar to the short novel (SF) "For a Breath I Tarry, 1966" by one great SF novelist Roger Zelazny. (Well, I don't want to think WALL-E is a plagiarism... In this article: Wall-e, Eve, Pixar, Andrew Stanton, For a Breath I Tarry, Hello, Dolly, Whipped cream, Waste, Oscar, and Little Tramp |
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For a Breath I Tarry
...novelette by Roger Zelazny. Taking place long after the self-extinction of Man, it recounts the tale of Frost, a sentient machine ("...a silver-blue box, 40x40x40 feet,... featured in whatever manner he chose.") Though Man has disappeared,...
In this article: Roger Zelazny, Book of Genesis, A Shropshire Lad, Silver, and A E Housman
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A Shropshire Lad
...of Poem 40 ("That is the land of lost content..."). The Roger Zelazny novella "For a Breath I Tarry" references the poem and shares some of the poem's setting and mood with its own. T. H. White quotes the final stanza of poem XXVIII...
In this article: A Shropshire Lad, Suicide, London, Roger Zelazny, Shropshire, and Dennis Potter
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Last Defender of Camelot : For a Breath I Tarry - Roger Zelazny. Last Defender of Camelot : The Engine at Heartspring's Center - Roger Zelazny ...
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Bibliography: For a Breath I Tarry
1966 - For a Breath I Tarry Nebula Award, Novelette (Made First Ballot) ... Power & Light, (Feb 2009, Roger Zelazny, NESFA Press, 1-886778-77-9, $29.00, ...
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Roger Zelazny
... Nominations and Wins of. Roger Zelazny (1937 - 1995) 1964. Short ... "For a Breath I Tarry" 1968. Novel. Lord of Light. Novella "Damnation Alley" 1972. Novel ...
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Contents for The Last Defender of Camelot
Roger Zelazny. Auto-Da-Fé. Roger Zelazny. Damnation Alley. Roger Zelazny. For a Breath I Tarry. Roger Zelazny. The Engine at Heartspring's Center ...
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FANTASTIC 1966/ 9 Leinster, Zelazny, Derleth
FANTASTIC 9/66 Leinster, Zelazny, Derleth. Fantastic Stories. Volume 16 No. 1, ... Eando Binder Novelettes For a Breath I Tarry Roger Zelazny "You Can't See Me" ...
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"For a Breath I Tarry" is a highly-regarded 1966 post-apocalyptic novelette by Roger Zelazny. Taking place long after the self-extinction of Man, it recounts the tale of Frost, a sentient machine 40 cubic feet in size. Though Man has disappeared, his robotic creations (and their creations in turn) continue to function.
For ten thousand years Frost sat at the North Pole of the Earth, aware of every snowflake that fell. He monitored and directed the activities of thousands of reconstruction and maintenance machines. He knew half the Earth, as gear knows gear, as electricity knows its conductor, as a vacuum knows its limits.
Along the way, the story explores the differences between Man and Machine, the former experiencing the world qualitatively, while the latter do so quantitatively. "A machine is a Man turned inside-out, because it can describe all the details of a process, which a Man cannot, but it cannot experience that process itself as a Man can." This is illustrated by a conversation Frost has with another machine named Mordel.
"Regard this piece of ice, mighty Frost. You can tell me its composition, dimensions, weight, temperature. A Man could not look at it and do that. A Man could make tools which would tell Him these things, but He still would not know measurement as you know it. What He would know of it, though, is a thing that you cannot know.", "What is that?", "That it is cold."
The novelette has appeared in collections of Zelazny's works
and in anthologies.
The title is from a phrase in A E Housman's collection A Shropshire Lad.
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