Candi
Sorcerer in training
Since: Aug, 2012
Sorcerer in training
Mar 9th 2014 at 3:39:50 AM
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- In Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Playback", aliens capture a mental recording of a human pilot as his ship explodes, and offer to reconstruct a body for him. Unfortunately, something goes wrong with the playback, and the protagonist's attempt to describe what his body is supposed to look like becomes increasingly confused and quickly degrades into incoherent babble.
Could someone who's read the work please fill in why this example fits the trope? Do the aliens interpret the babbling as words and construct a very not-human body? Or does something else occur?
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Weatherfac
Since: Mar, 2012
Jun 23rd 2012 at 6:00:21 PM
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Is there a reason why the first paragraph sounds exactly like the first paragraph for the Destination Host Unreachable article? It doesn't seem... quite right.
isn't this just "monster from beyond the veil"?
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