Comments for page "How Grandmother Triode Stole Binary from the Sun" http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun Posts in the discussion thread "How Grandmother Triode Stole Binary from the Sun" Tue, 19 May 2026 00:54:10 +0000 http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-6277287 +1 http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-6277287 Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:14:16 +0000 odoubluf 8842990 (*°O°*)

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-6070986 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-6070986 Mon, 01 May 2023 00:05:52 +0000 Maxyfran73 7498739 There is something so marvelous about these fable type stories that play around alien concept that just works so well. The concepts here aren't fully 'alien', of course, but the way they're implemented is so out there… God. It's just such a fun little piece. I love it.

+1~

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-5193803 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-5193803 Fri, 04 Feb 2022 17:25:32 +0000 blazerboy69420 5828787 holy shit. nothing but sublime rolling off every word here.

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-4325017 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-4325017 Thu, 08 Aug 2019 04:23:18 +0000 Jack Manganese 1486408 No promises, but once before a contest did lure me back.

No promises, though.
]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-4325012 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-4325012 Thu, 08 Aug 2019 04:16:11 +0000 Jack Manganese 1486408 Sorry for the late response, but the reason this feels like a genuine folk story is because I copied the structure from two Cherokee stories, "Grandmother Spider Steals the Sun" and "The First Fire", both of which can both be found in Mooney's Myths of the Cherokee (1902).

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-4324925 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-4324925 Thu, 08 Aug 2019 01:41:00 +0000 RJB_R 1229263 If you come to the Sci-Fi contest I would lose my mind

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-4324922 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-4324922 Thu, 08 Aug 2019 01:38:08 +0000 Jack Manganese 1486408 …but I am still here. I'm just invisible until someone mentions me. : )

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-4324911 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-4324911 Thu, 08 Aug 2019 01:25:52 +0000 5341612 Beautiful. If only you were still here for the Sci-Fi contest coming up. But it doesn't really matter, as this is good enough to be told again and again and again. Wonder what kind of shaman told this story.

+1

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-4195883 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-4195883 Sun, 24 Mar 2019 22:38:03 +0000 NatVoltaic 2800867 This really is just a whole lot of fun to read. Really impressed by how much this feels like a, well, "genuine" folk story too.

+1

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-1732476 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-1732476 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:40:34 +0000 Altaia 1367197 This is amazing. I love the structure of the story combined with it's content. It's win in every direction.

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-1714141 +20 http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-1714141 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:54:47 +0000 rumetzen 209204 Excellent work Jack.

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-1695128 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-1695128 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:35:05 +0000 Pixeltasim 1475255 http://io9.com/5978715/the-funniest-short-story-weve-seen-in-ages?post=56606396

Congratulations Man!

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-1693368 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-1693368 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:34:51 +0000 Drewbear 301632 Muy bueno. :-)

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-1689019 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-1689019 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:19:19 +0000 Silberescher 304355 The Cyberiad, a collection of robotic fables, is one of my favorite science fiction books, and this would fit right in.

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-1684172 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-1684172 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:36:15 +0000 Pixeltasim 1475255 I love this, a folk tale talking about electronic components is pretty awesome. +1

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-1684018 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-1684018 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:18:03 +0000 Jack Manganese 1486408 Thanks, all. I got the idea for this from the cover of one of my Native American books. It had stylized bear tracks around the edge, and they looked a bit like vacuum tubes to me, so I resolved to write such a story.

This is the book, in case you want to see for yourself how I made such an odd association:
http://www.amazon.com/American-Legends-Pantheon-Folklore-Library/dp/0394740181/

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-1683943 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-1683943 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:57:04 +0000 rumetzen 209204 Yup. This is pretty nice.

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-1683933 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-1683933 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:34:47 +0000 thedeadlymoose 732274 I like it, as I said before. :)

]]> http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647#post-1683921 (no title) http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/forum/t-614647/how-grandmother-triode-stole-binary-from-the-sun#post-1683921 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:17:00 +0000 DrEverettMann 323946 This is pretty great. I love the feel of an old American Indian story.

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