Not with a Bang (short story)
"Not with a Bang" | |
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Publisher | Mercury Press |
Media type | Print (Magazine, Hardback & Paperback) |
Publication date | Winter 1949 |
"Not with a Bang" is a
Synopsis
The story is an ironic, Adam-and-Eve tale. Humanity has been wiped out by a nuclear war, except for one man and woman, who meet in a restaurant in Salt Lake City. The man suffers from a disease that causes recurrent episodes of total paralysis. While in the bathroom, he has an attack, and dies with the realization that the woman is too prudish to enter and save him.
Background
Knight has written[2] that this was the first of his stories that he considered to be of professional quality. He said that the idea for the story
came to me during the time it took for a men's-room door to close behind me in a Swedish restaurant in New York. I didn't have the characters or the setting, but I had the whole structure; all I needed was to find parts that fit.
References
External links
- Not with a Bang title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database