Your chosen genre is, I am the first to admit, not the easiest for the author or the reader. “I understand you are smarting from my judgements. Just then, Goldilocks woke up and saw the three authors. "Someone's been sleeping in my bed and she's still there!" exclaimed baby Alfred. They decided to look around to see if the mysterious person was still in their house and when they got upstairs to the bedroom, they found Goldilocks asleep, and went through the whole tedious routine again. "Someone's been reading my book and they gave it a five star rating on Goodreads!” said little Alfred Bester. "Someone's been reading my book too, and they threw it across the room!” said Philip K Dick. “Didn’t they realise it won the Nebula AND the Hugo?” "Someone's been reading my book and they only gave it two stars!” growled Paolo. Goldilocks fell asleep.Īs she was sleeping, the authors came home. Then she lay down in the third bed and it was just right. Then she lay in the second bed, but it was too soft. She lay down in the first bed, but it was too hard.
Goldilocks was very tired by this time, so she went upstairs to the bedroom. “Fast and furious but cramful of tasty ideas too!” And she read until the very last page. “Ahhh, this is just right!” said Goldilocks. So, Goldilocks read the last book, which was called Tiger! Tiger! by Alfred Bester. “Ouch! This plot is too hot! It’s as mad as a bag of frogs! I can’t make head nor tail!” And she flung the book across the room. So, she began to read the second novel which was called The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich by Philip K Dick. “Ugh!” she exclaimed, “This plot is too cold, not to say clinical, lumbering, tiresome, and altogether too exegetical!” And she flung the book across the room. The first one was called The Wind-Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. She knocked at the door but no one answered, so being a rather bold and sassy little girl, she walked right in.Īt the table in the kitchen, there were three science fiction novels.
Very soon, she came upon a house made of books. Once upon a time, a little girl named Goldilocks decided to go for a walk in the forest. The Story of Goldilocks and the Three Authors
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