Project Gutenberg 2007-12-15 Public domain in the USA. 81 Beck, C. C. (Charles Clarence) 1910 1989 Beck, Charles Clarence Martinez Vanishing Point Produced from Astounding Science Fiction July 1959. Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "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.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 36914 36923 2024-09-10T09:22:44.593744 2023-09-10T12:24:30.800504 text/html text/html 32907 2007-12-15T13:11:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 51130 2007-12-15T13:11:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 99979 2024-09-10T09:22:47.804757 application/epub+zip 98995 2024-09-10T09:22:45.958710 application/epub+zip 61383 2024-09-10T09:22:45.147712 application/epub+zip 238004 2024-09-10T09:22:49.238684 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 231142 2024-09-10T09:22:47.245701 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 153652 2022-09-11T07:30:38.529606 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 30976 30851 2024-09-10T09:22:44.402716 2023-09-10T12:24:30.633498 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 30867 2007-12-15T13:11:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 11736 2007-12-15T13:11:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18777 2024-09-10T09:22:49.377698 application/rdf+xml 13769 2024-09-10T09:22:45.484723 image/jpeg 3524 2024-09-10T09:22:45.315707 image/jpeg 104871 2024-09-10T09:22:44.603719 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