story ID - sugar people?
Sparrow 13
me ever since but i cn't remember who wrote it or the title....
a family moves to a neighborhood who are all nice, but odd..eventually
they get invited on a picnic or something and it starts to rain..and
they all melt away! their horrified neighbors realiuze they were made
of sugar!
like i said, that image has stuck with me ever since i read it; i
remember being upset for several days after i read it.
can anyone help me find it? thanks!
"click yr Fingers applauding the Play" -roky erickson
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The Extremely DeLux One
Colin
> I read this story when i was like eleven or twlve; it's stuck with
> me ever since but i cn't remember who wrote it or the title....
>
> a family moves to a neighborhood who are all nice, but odd..eventually
> they get invited on a picnic or something and it starts to rain..and
> they all melt away! their horrified neighbors realiuze they were made
> of sugar!
This is probably "Rain, Rain, Go Away!", one of Isaac Asimov's more
eccentric short stories from the 1950s. It would probably have originally
been written for a Sci-fi magazine.
The story is included in the Asimov short story collection 'Buy Jupiter' and
I think I've also seen it in some of the Sci-fi story collections published
by Gollancz.
Sparrow 13
>
>This is probably "Rain, Rain, Go Away!", one of Isaac Asimov's more
>eccentric short stories from the 1950s.
That was it, yep! Thank you. It's funny how such a silly premise for
a story could've had such a strong effect on a person, but that last
paragraph surely did freak the younger me out.
It's hardly the kind of story one usually associates with Dr. A, is
it? There's no way I'd have thought of his name in connection with the
image of Japanese sugar people melting.
Thanks again!
"I talk to Planets, baby."
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The Extremely DeLux One
PS: interested people can go here to read the tale themselves:
www.kirkwood.k12.mo.us/parent_student/nm/renzali/Rain,%20Rain%20Go%20Away%20Text.pdf-
Sparrow 13
Sparrow 13, the link I posted earlier doesn't work. Pardon my flub.
The link below, now, *that* one works. I took it for a test-drive and
it got me there.
Therefor I say unto you, that if you want to read "Rain Rain Go Away"
by Isaac Asimov, go here:
"I talk to Planets, baby."
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The Extremely DeLux One
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Glenn P.,
> ...I read this story when I was like eleven or twelve...
And when was that, pray? We are not mind readers; none of us have any
EARTHLY way of knowing how old you are. So, in what YEAR were you "like
eleven or twelve"???
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Glenn P.,
> There's no way I'd have thought of his name in connection with
> the image of Japanese sugar people melting.
Perhaps he was inspired by "The Wizard Of Oz"! :)
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<C128UserD...@FVI.Net> wrote:
>On 17-Jul-07 at 3:30am -0700, <sparr...@SPAMLESScomcast.net> wrote:
>
> > ...I read this story when I was like eleven or twelve...
>
>And when was that, pray? We are not mind readers; none of us have any
>EARTHLY way of knowing how old you are. So, in what YEAR were you "like
>eleven or twelve"???
>
1970 or 1971 (I'm *old*!)
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Ann Burlingham
> , Colin wrote:
> >This is probably "Rain, Rain, Go Away!", one of Isaac Asimov's more
> >eccentric short stories from the 1950s.
>
> That was it, yep! Thank you. It's funny how such a silly premise for
> a story could've had such a strong effect on a person, but that last
> paragraph surely did freak the younger me out.
I have repeatedly had that story come to mind over the years. It stays
with me.
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Glenn P.,
>> ...in what YEAR were you "like eleven or twelve"???
> 1970 or 1971 (I'm *old*!)
I'll be the "Big Five-Oh" in October of 2008, myself...
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