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100 1 _aMarmor, Arnold,
_d1927-1978
245 1 0 _aFish Fry
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2021
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy December 1954
500 _aRelease date is 2021-09-30
508 _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Fish Fry" by Arnold Marmor is a science fiction short story published in the mid-20th century, particularly in the early 1950s. The narrative follows the unexpected encounter of the protagonist, Carol Engelholtz, with an alien named Hrodes, who mistakenly gets hooked while fishing in the ocean off Key West. The story explores themes of misunderstanding and communication across species, while also embedding humor in its portrayal of alien encounters. In the story, Engelholtz enjoys a relaxing day of deep-sea fishing when he unexpectedly hooks Hrodes, an alien from the planet Grenaria, who can speak English and needs help to complete his mission on Earth. The protagonist's excitement turns to chaos when he leaves Hrodes in the bathtub at home while he fetches a local professor for validation. Unfortunately, Hrodes gets mistaken for a fish by Engelholtz's cook, leading to a comically tragic conclusion when Hrodes is prepared for dinner. The story delivers a humorous take on the mishaps that can occur when two cultures—human and extraterrestrial—collide in misunderstood ways. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aShort stories
653 _aHuman-alien encounters -- Fiction
653 _aFlorida -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy December 1954
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66427
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