[New post] Short Story Review: Theodore Sturgeon’s “Memorial” (1946)
Joachim Boaz posted: " I recently finished David Dowling's Fictions of Nuclear Disaster (1987) and thought I'd review a handful of the short stories discussed in the monograph. The first on my list is Theodore Sturgeon's haunting "Memorial" which first appeared in the April 19"
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I recently finished David Dowling's Fictions of Nuclear Disaster (1987) and thought I'd review a handful of the short stories discussed in the monograph. The first on my list is Theodore Sturgeon's haunting "Memorial" which first appeared in the April 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. You can read it online here.
Ed Emshwiller's cover for the 1st edition of Science Fiction Terror Tales, ed. Groff Conklin (1955)
"Memorial" (1946), Theodore Sturgeon, 4/5 (Good): Grenfell has a plan to create a war memorial to end all memorials---The Pit. It will writhe with lava. It will shine forth with a ghastly glow. The product of a nuclear explosion a thousand times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb (161). Like some grotesque manifestation of the Darvaza gas crater, it will be a "living reminder of the devastation mankind has prepared for itself" (161). And the message will be the most "useful thing in the history of the race---a never-ending sermon, a warning, an example of the dreadful" possibilities of nuclear war (161).
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