In a future war, an old lady is trying to raise a boy but one of the weapons has made everyone deafSF 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”
What exactly term 'companion plants' means?
Is there a hypothetical scenario that would make Earth uninhabitable for humans, but not for (the majority of) other animals?
How can an organ that provides biological immortality be unable to regenerate?
How could an airship be repaired midflight?
Help rendering a complicated sum/product formula
When did antialiasing start being available?
Deletion of copy-ctor & copy-assignment - public, private or protected?
A Ri-diddley-iley Riddle
Would it be believable to defy demographics in a story?
World War I as a war of liberals against authoritarians?
What does "mu" mean as an interjection?
HP P840 HDD RAID 5 many strange drive failures
What favor did Moody owe Dumbledore?
I got the following comment from a reputed math journal. What does it mean?
Is it possible to stack the damage done by the Absorb Elements spell?
Do native speakers use "ultima" and "proxima" frequently in spoken English?
Unfrosted light bulb
Have the tides ever turned twice on any open problem?
PTIJ What is the inyan of the Konami code in Uncle Moishy's song?
Do US professors/group leaders only get a salary, but no group budget?
Loading the leaflet Map in Lightning Web Component
Calculate the frequency of characters in a string
Suggestions on how to spend Shaabath (constructively) alone
Should I use acronyms in dialogues before telling the readers what it stands for in fiction?
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.
story-identification short-stories
asked 2 days ago
AlanAlan
963
New contributor
Alan is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
add a comment |
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.
story-identification short-stories
asked 2 days ago
AlanAlan
963
New contributor
Alan is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
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
2 days ago
add a comment |
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.
story-identification short-stories
asked 2 days ago
AlanAlan
963
New contributor
Alan is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
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.
story-identification short-stories
story-identification short-stories
asked 2 days ago
AlanAlan
963
New contributor
Alan is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
asked 2 days ago
AlanAlan
963
New contributor
Alan is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
asked 2 days ago
AlanAlan
963
New contributor
Alan is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
asked 2 days ago
AlanAlan
963
asked 2 days ago
AlanAlan
963
963
New contributor
Alan is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
New contributor
Alan is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
Alan is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
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
2 days ago
add a comment |
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
add a comment |
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
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 2 days ago
Stormblessed
2,248633
answered 2 days ago
Mike StoneMike Stone
5,24011440
Thank you so much!
– Alan
2 days ago
1
@Alan since this appears to be the correct answer, please consider marking it as such by clicking on the gray check mark beside the post.
– Organic Marble
2 days ago
add a comment |
Your Answer
StackExchange.ready(function()
var channelOptions =
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "186"
;
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function()
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled)
StackExchange.using("snippets", function()
createEditor();
);
else
createEditor();
);
function createEditor()
StackExchange.prepareEditor(
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: false,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: null,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader:
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
,
noCode: true, onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
);
);
Alan is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function ()
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fscifi.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f207310%2fin-a-future-war-an-old-lady-is-trying-to-raise-a-boy-but-one-of-the-weapons-has%23new-answer', 'question_page');
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
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 2 days ago
Stormblessed
2,248633
answered 2 days ago
Mike StoneMike Stone
5,24011440
Thank you so much!
– Alan
2 days ago
1
@Alan since this appears to be the correct answer, please consider marking it as such by clicking on the gray check mark beside the post.
– Organic Marble
2 days ago
add a comment |
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 2 days ago
Stormblessed
2,248633
answered 2 days ago
Mike StoneMike Stone
5,24011440
Thank you so much!
– Alan
2 days ago
1
@Alan since this appears to be the correct answer, please consider marking it as such by clicking on the gray check mark beside the post.
– Organic Marble
2 days ago
add a comment |
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 2 days ago
Stormblessed
2,248633
answered 2 days ago
Mike StoneMike Stone
5,24011440
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 2 days ago
Stormblessed
2,248633
answered 2 days ago
Mike StoneMike Stone
5,24011440
edited 2 days ago
Stormblessed
2,248633
edited 2 days ago
Stormblessed
2,248633
edited 2 days ago
Stormblessed
2,248633
2,248633
answered 2 days ago
Mike StoneMike Stone
5,24011440
answered 2 days ago
Mike StoneMike Stone
5,24011440
answered 2 days ago
Mike StoneMike Stone
5,24011440
5,24011440
Thank you so much!
– Alan
2 days ago
1
@Alan since this appears to be the correct answer, please consider marking it as such by clicking on the gray check mark beside the post.
– Organic Marble
2 days ago
add a comment |
Thank you so much!
– Alan
2 days ago
1
@Alan since this appears to be the correct answer, please consider marking it as such by clicking on the gray check mark beside the post.
– Organic Marble
2 days ago
Thank you so much!
– Alan
2 days ago
Thank you so much!
– Alan
2 days ago
1
1
@Alan since this appears to be the correct answer, please consider marking it as such by clicking on the gray check mark beside the post.
– Organic Marble
2 days ago
@Alan since this appears to be the correct answer, please consider marking it as such by clicking on the gray check mark beside the post.
– Organic Marble
2 days ago
add a comment |
Alan is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Alan is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Alan is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Alan is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Thanks for contributing an answer to Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function ()
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fscifi.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f207310%2fin-a-future-war-an-old-lady-is-trying-to-raise-a-boy-but-one-of-the-weapons-has%23new-answer', 'question_page');
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
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
2 days ago