Fondly Fahrenheit
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Story collection first edition, 1958First publication
1954 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
First book publication
1958 in Starburst story collection
Literature form
Story
Genre
Science fiction
Writing language
English
Author's country
United States
Length
Approx. 7,000 words
Notable lines
He doesn't know which of us I am these days, but they do know one truth. You must own nothing but yourself. You must make your own life, live your own life and die your own death...or else you will die another's.
The rice fields on Paragon III stretch for hundreds of miles like checkerboard tundras, a blue and brown mosaic under a burning sky of orange. In the evening, clouds whip like smoke, and the paddies rustle and murmur.
— First lines
"Why did you do it? Why did you kill her?" I asked.
"I don't know," I answered.
Cool and discreet, honey, in the dancing frost while the thermometer registers 10—fondly Fahrenheit.
— Last lines
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