Comments | crisper: Waiting for Emperor

crisper

Waiting for Emperor

Feb 10, 2004 08:30

Father says we did not do so well in the lottery. We are almost eight hundred twenty-five million down in line. I can't count that high, so it must be a long way to the Emperor. There are many people behind us, but there are many more ahead of us. Why does the Emperor want to meet everyone in the Empire anyway? Father says there are over a billion ( Read more... )

sf, story

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Baby crisper March 16 2004, 17:53:24 UTC

She said she wanted a baby. I told her what would happen but she didn't think they would do it. She said we had fulfilled our obligation. But I saw it all, as if in a dream of the future, and I tried to tell her but she wouldn't listen ( ... )

In The Queue anonymous April 10 2010, 19:09:55 UTC

Have you read Keith Laumer's "In The Queue"? I stumbled across it a few years ago and this story immediately brought it to mind.

Honestly, I like your take more; the population-growth/class viewpoint is great, and you manage to include more detail and storytelling in a similar length. I won't give away Keith's ending, but it's hard to say which of you did better with it.

You can find "In The Queue" here:
http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/0743435370/0743435370_toc.htm
It's the first story.

(I'm reading through the archives, after finding your LJ the other day. Looks like there's plenty of archive to read... six years!)

Re: In The Queue crisper April 10 2010, 21:44:15 UTC

Haha, Laumer, that magnificent bastard! No, I'd never read or heard of the story before.