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"The Rocket" is a science fiction short story (initially published under the name "Outcast of the Stars") by American writer Ray Bradbury. It is also included in The Illustrated Man, a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury.
Gray Matter", a short story by Stephen King first published in the October 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift, is the story of a man who, having become reclusive after a work-related accident, drinks a bad can of beer and is ultimately overtaken by fungal growth from within.
"Gray Matter" was first published in the October 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine. [1] In 1978, it was collected in King's first book of short stories, Night Shift (King had wanted to cut the story in favor of his 1972 story "Suffer the Little Children", but deferred to editor Bill Thompson who chose to keep "Gray Matter" in the collection). [2]
The short story and title of the book “When a man falls from the Sky” has the characters' world flipped upside down as they discover an equation that they thought was perfect has flaws. While they try to reconcile with this fact, they begin to understand other people's pain as well as to learn from it.
The story was the inspiration for an instrumental song of the same name by guitarist Jim Matheos on his first solo album, First Impressions. The story inspired the song "Silent Snow" by musician Scott Appel on his album Nine of Swords. The story inspired the song "KEROSENE" by musician OF SAINT.
Others liken it to "sweet smelling welding fumes," "seared steak," or other odd combos such as this description on twitter from ESA astronaut, Alexander Gerst: "To me, space smells like a mixture ...
Cattle Decapitation titled an album after the story. James Michener's Space features characters reading the story. In The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear during a panic after Dr. Albert Meinheimer's speech, the character Terence Baggett holds a copy of the book To Serve Man, proclaiming "It's a cookbook!"
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