# Sci-Fi Book Summarizations Website

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**Created:** [February 8, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-book-summarizations-website/153612 "2003-02-08T00:49:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-book-summarizations-website/153612/1 "2003-02-08T00:49:04Z")

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I’ve forgotten the url to this site. It’s a webpage featuring ultra-short, very funny summaries to major works of science fiction. I’ve googled and googled, no avail. Help?

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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-book-summarizations-website/153612/2 "2003-02-08T02:08:13Z")

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Could it be

[http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/sff.shtml](http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/sff.shtml) ?

(no, I don’t know how to do a fancy link. I’m a doctor, dammit, not a programmer…)

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**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-book-summarizations-website/153612/3 "2003-02-08T02:09:52Z")

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That’s it, Doc, thanks!

This thread can no longer serve any purpose.

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**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-book-summarizations-website/153612/4 "2003-02-08T03:43:53Z")

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Nonsense! That’s a great list, but there’s a lot of books that still aren’t on it! For example:

**The Complete Sherlock Holmes** \* by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\*

LESTRADE: The police are baffled, Holmes.

HOLMES: Elementary, Watson.

WATSON: Brilliant, Holmes!

**THE END**  
**Waldo** \* by Robert A. Heinlein\*

WALDO: I’m sick and fat, so I’m mean.

AMISH GUY: Here’s some magic.

WALDO: Oh, I’m cured! I guess I’ll be nice.

**THE END**  
_A double-shot of Stephen King:_

**Pet Sematary**

JUD: Don’t bury a person up there, Louis.

_(He does, and everybody dies.)_

**THE END**  
**FIRESTARTER**

ANDY: Don’t set fires, Charlie.

GOVERNMENT: No, it’s okay for you to set fires.

_(She does, and everybody dies.)_

**THE END**  
**Which Way books** \* by various authors\*

\*\*Turn to PAGE 32.

THE END\*\*