A client is asking a question that pesters my mind because I think I ought to know the answer. This just sounds so devilishly familiar. Does anyone have a hint? Here’s the question:
About 20 years ago I read in a reprinted book about a story by Erle
Stanley Gardner(Perry Mason fame) He wrote a 5 to 6 sentence story(?)
about how easy it is to write science fiction. He, I believe, wrote
it as a sarcastic example about how there is no need to to have any
facts or continuity…or whatever behind a scifi story. About mid 80’s or 90’s a
scifi writer wrote a book using just those few sentences.
The gist of the story as I remember it is about a man looking to the
the sky(stars) pointing a weapon(?) and knowing that it must end(?)