The Great Automatic Grammatizator
Is it really possible to invent a machine that does the job of a writer? What is it about a landlady's house that makes it so hard for her guests to leave? Does Sir Basil Turton value most his wife or one of his priceless sculptures? Here are thirteen of Roald Dahl's most unexpected tales, offering young readers the perfect introduction to the adult writing of a storytelling genius. From the sensitivity of stories such as 'Katina' to the surprising creepiness of 'Taste', these stories are full of all the fun, excitement and wonder of Roald Dahl's writing, offering originality, ingenuity, horror, unexpected twists and turns, a touch of the macabre – and much more besides. Contains: Great Automatic Grammatizator Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat The butler -- Man from the South Landlady Parson's Pleasure The umbrella man -- Katina Way Up to Heaven Royal Jelly Vengeance Is Mine Inc. -- Taste Neck
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- It's amazing to me how nobody seems to know about the short story "The great automatic grammatizator" by Roald Dahl. Nobody got closer than him. I feel like I should be reading about it all the time and no one seems to have ever heard of it.
- Also check out "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" by Roald Dahl for another eerily accurate scifi description of LLMs written in 1954:
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- In Great Automatic Grammatizator by Roald Dahl was one of the stories that stayed with me through the years. In the story, there is a machine that can write stories, replacing authors but they were at least paying real authors to use their names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Automatic_Grammatiza...
- Roald Dahl's "The Great Automatic Grammatizator"
- Nah, this story is just exceptionally good. Asimov was a fine writer, but this story was his crowning achievement in short fiction and he knew it too. You can read his other things and none of them will give the same feeling.
Nightfall is a decent story though. But yeah, The Last Question is in a league of its own. It's one of my favorite short stories ever along with The Library of Babel by Borges, The Great Automatic Grammatizator by Roald Dahl, and "Repent, Harlequin!" said the Tick-Tock Man by Harlan Ellison.
- The Great Automatic Grammatizator, by Roald Dahl, one of the best sci fi short stories ever. This post is the story come to life.
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