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Short Story

The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford

1954

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About this story

An eccentric inventor proposes that sufficient irritation can make an inanimate object come alive. An experiment involving an ordinary shoe gives that theory a peculiar opportunity to prove itself.

Chronology

Work history

  1. Feb-Apr 1952

    Composed Feb-Apr 1952

    Composition date or range from the canonical chronology.

  2. Jan 1954

    First published Jan 1954

    The Magazine of F & SF