SciFi Redditors: Help identify this short story!

mordaunt0 · 2 years

They are whining about movies and hotels and snacks when he is thinking about how to survive. Finally, he leaves them at the rest stop and takes his daughter with him.

o_O Lot?

Edit: i was just kidding about the name of the book, due to the incestuous description seeming to imply the biblical story. But apparently there is a sci-fi book of the same name matching the description by Ward Moore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Moore

"Moore is also known for the two short stories (since collected) Lot (1953) and Lot's Daughter (1954) which are postapocalyptic tales with parallels to the Bible. The film Panic in Year Zero! (1962) was (without giving credit) based on Lot and Lot's Daughter. His short story "Adjustment", in which an "ordinary" man adjusts to a never-never land in which his wishes are fulfilled, and makes the environment adjust to him as well, has been reprinted several times."

Go figure :)

munky_g · 2 years

Lot's Daughter, by Ward Moore..?

Mr_Smartypants · 2 years

Any more details?

What type of disaster? (nuclear, environmental, virus, asteroid impact, aliens, etc?)

Any names of characters?

EarBucket · 2 years

Sounds like something Heinlein could have written, maybe. Doesn't ring a bell for me, though.

Chyndonax · 2 years

Sounds similar to a chapter in World War Z by Max Brooks but some important details are different.

[deleted] · 2 years

Dunno, douchey father though.

zzleeper · 2 years

Is it available online? It seems to be sold out.

tugteen · 2 years

I didn't want to make a new thread to ask a question, but I also have a sci-fi short story I would like to find.

It's about these two friends who go to a mall, and in it is a new store that gives away free ice cream, naturally the people become fat because of the ice cream, so one day the main character is walking home and there is a man outside in the parking lot selling the use of his weight loss machine. He says that you can lose ten pounds for ten dollars, and it makes the main character wonder if the ice cream and the weight machine guy are part of the same company, and if she is just being lead along like a sheep. she dismisses the thought and happily pays to lose the weight.

[deleted] · 2 years

I have this story in a collection somewhere... It's an older one I think, perhaps Brian Aldiss. I'll have a look but really, my motivation isn't that strong, so don't hold your breath.

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