Knock (short story)

"Knock" is a science fiction short story by American writer Fredric Brown. It is noted for beginning with a piece of flash fiction:

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door ...

It then goes on to elaborate on these two sentences and build a more complete plot around them.

It was published in the December 1948 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories.[1] There have been three different radio adaptations (Dimension X, X Minus One and Sci Fi Channel's Seeing Ear Theatre). The story was reprinted in The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949[2]

References

  1. ↑ Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections Archived October 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Website of Locus - The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field.
  2. ↑ Everett F. Bieler & T. E. Dikty, eds., The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949 New York: Frederick Fell, Aug. 1949, 314 pp.
This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.