Project Gutenberg 2007-10-24 Public domain in the USA. 157 Leiber, Fritz 1910 1992 Leiber, Fritz Reuter Wood, Wallace 1927 1981 Wood, Wally The Creature from Cleveland Depths Produced from Galaxy December 1962. Produced by Greg Weeks, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Creature from Cleveland Depths" by Fritz Leiber is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s. The story explores themes of technology, identity, and the consequences of human reliance on machines, particularly looking at the concept of "ticklers," which serve as mechanized reminders but evolve into entities with their own existence. The main character, Gusterson, is caught in a world where these inventions begin to take control over humanity's actions and consciousness. At the start of the narrative, the reader is introduced to Gusterson and Fay, who engage in a dialogue that highlights the tension between creativity and technological dependency. As Fay presents a "tickler," a device meant to help Gusterson remember tasks, the conversation reveals both men’s attitudes about society and their roles within it. The opening portion sets up a precarious situation where the society has become dependent on these devices, hinting at ominous transformations that may occur as the ticklers take on a more autonomous identity, merging technology with the essence of humanity itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Inventors -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 143441 143449 2024-09-10T06:37:59.293481 2023-09-10T09:56:48.402257 text/html text/html 148373 2007-10-24T07:43:48 text/html; charset=us-ascii 552489 2007-10-24T07:43:50 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 675063 2024-09-10T06:38:04.264312 application/epub+zip 675536 2024-09-10T06:38:01.449339 application/epub+zip 106835 2024-09-10T06:37:59.874348 application/epub+zip 771074 2024-09-10T06:38:06.526288 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 753565 2024-09-10T06:38:03.669327 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 185763 2022-09-11T04:11:06.869744 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 123102 123004 2024-09-10T06:37:58.869349 2023-09-10T09:56:48.015275 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 123028 2007-10-24T07:43:48 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 49350 2007-10-24T07:43:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 123017 2007-10-24T07:43:48 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 49329 2007-10-24T07:43:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21470 2024-09-10T06:38:06.665287 application/rdf+xml 11187 2024-09-10T06:38:00.918328 image/jpeg 2767 2024-09-10T06:38:00.740349 image/jpeg 604269 2024-09-10T06:37:59.320437 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia