Talk:Sandkings (short story collection)

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I put a summary of the short story on this page, which I worked pretty hard to write. It was deleted wholesale. Please don't delete my writing. (BJenkin) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brownjenkin (talk • contribs) 23:06, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The summary of the short story is wrong: making war is the nature of sandkings, the problem arises when the owner wounds one of them in an access of fury.41.83.27.220 (talk) 08:26, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed a sentence about "Sandkings" (the story, not the book or the Outer Limits episode) being an example the "mad scientist" [playing God and getting punished for it] archetype. Judging from the Outer Limits episode's summary, that trope is certainly in effect in the TV version; in the short story, there aren't any scientist characters--I guess you could say it's an example of the "rich amoral prick gets the deliciously horrible smackdown he's been setting himself up for all his life" archetype, but there probably isn't an article for that. Iralith 01:00, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Added reference to the DC comics graphic novel adaptation of the story, made a slight formatting change. KaminoNeko 11:39, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I remember reading this story in OMNI magazine back in ..wow, it must have been about 1980. Made a big impression on me considering I still remember it 25 years later. One interesting and creepy attribute about the sandkings is that they grow proportionally to their confinement. In the beginning of the story, they're in a small terrarrium, but then the terrarium breaks and they start growing and take over the house...and that's pretty much the end of the owner. I remember the people who sold the Sandkings to the owner were named "Wo" and "Shade". They are never seen, only heard on the phone. I think it is revealed towards the end of the story that one of them (Wo or Shade) is actually a Sandking. Ekoontz 07:56, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Heh! Just did a google search for "Wo and Shade" and found this: Sandkings (novelette) - these articles (this one and that one) ought to be merged. Ekoontz 08:03, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, for now I've stuck in a link from this page to the story's own page. I'm not whether this anthology is notable enough to get its own page (oddly, I have a copy of it somewhere)--but I suspect it's not worth deleting. You may well be right about the merging; I'm not feeling

bold

enough myself.

(Dude, that story always made me want to hear something out of Mr. Shade. I mean, of course George Martin's a big fan of the standard horror-writing technique of suggesting rather than showing, but even so . . . I always wondered about that guy. I mean, does he talk? When he's not propagating his species through subterfuge, is he a nice guy? And so forth.) Iralith 23:43, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]