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Title: Vanishing Point

Series Title: Produced from Astounding Science Fiction July 1959.

Note: Reading ease score: 84.3 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Credits: Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Stephen Blundell
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
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Summary: "Vanishing Point" by C. C. Beck is a science fiction short story published in the late 1950s. The narrative explores themes of perception, reality, and the nature of art through the lens of an artist's perspective machine. The story delves into philosophical questions about the essence of reality and challenges the boundaries between illusion and existence. The plot follows an artist and his friend Carter, who is obsessed with understanding perspective and the true nature of reality. Carter constructs a perspective machine that he believes will reveal the authentic essence of the world. Upon its completion, he asserts that reality is merely a fabric of illusions, a concept that terrifies him and leads him to flee in panic. The protagonist, observing the peculiar effects of the machine, decides to keep it, contemplating its potential as an attraction at a county fair while reflecting on the nature of reality and perception. This engaging narrative ultimately challenges readers to consider whether what they perceive as reality is simply an illusion crafted by their senses and societal conditioning. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Beck, C. C. (Charles Clarence), 1910-1989

Illustrator: Martinez

EBook No.: 23868

Published: Dec 15, 2007

Downloads: 65

Language: English

Subject: Science fiction

Subject: Short stories

LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

urn:gutenberg:23868:2 2007-12-15T00:00:00+00:00 Public domain in the USA. Martinez Beck, C. C. (Charles Clarence) en 1
2024-11-08T18:03:12Z Vanishing Point

This edition has images.

Title: Vanishing Point

Series Title: Produced from Astounding Science Fiction July 1959.

Note: Reading ease score: 84.3 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Credits: Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Stephen Blundell
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http: //www.pgdp.net

Summary: "Vanishing Point" by C. C. Beck is a science fiction short story published in the late 1950s. The narrative explores themes of perception, reality, and the nature of art through the lens of an artist's perspective machine. The story delves into philosophical questions about the essence of reality and challenges the boundaries between illusion and existence. The plot follows an artist and his friend Carter, who is obsessed with understanding perspective and the true nature of reality. Carter constructs a perspective machine that he believes will reveal the authentic essence of the world. Upon its completion, he asserts that reality is merely a fabric of illusions, a concept that terrifies him and leads him to flee in panic. The protagonist, observing the peculiar effects of the machine, decides to keep it, contemplating its potential as an attraction at a county fair while reflecting on the nature of reality and perception. This engaging narrative ultimately challenges readers to consider whether what they perceive as reality is simply an illusion crafted by their senses and societal conditioning. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Author: Beck, C. C. (Charles Clarence), 1910-1989

Illustrator: Martinez

EBook No.: 23868

Published: Dec 15, 2007

Downloads: 65

Language: English

Subject: Science fiction

Subject: Short stories

LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

urn:gutenberg:23868:3 2007-12-15T00:00:00+00:00 Public domain in the USA. Martinez Beck, C. C. (Charles Clarence) en 1