A revista Wired lançou um desafio a vários escritores de ficção científica, fantasia e terror. Escrever microcontos de até seis palavras, a exemplo de um clássico de Ernest Hemingway que, diz-se, ele considerou sua melhor obra ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn"). Selecionei dez. Meu favorito é o último.
TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! … nobody there …
- Harry Harrison
Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Vernor Vinge
I’m your future, child. Don’t cry.
- Stephen Baxter
Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
- Eileen Gunn
His penis snapped off; he’s pregnant!
- Rudy Rucker
Heaven falls. Details at eleven.
- Robert Jordan
Osama’s time machine: President Gore concerned.
- Charles Stross
Rained, rained, rained, and never stopped.
- Howard Waldrop
Death postponed. Metastasized cells got organized.
- David Brin
Vacuum collision. Orbits diverge. Farewell, love.
- David Brin
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