Project Gutenberg 2008-01-07 Public domain in the USA. 83 Mason, David 1924 1974 Brotman, Adolph E. Something Will Turn Up Reading ease score: 87.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Geetu Melwani and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Something Will Turn Up" by David Mason is a science fiction short story written in the early 1960s. The narrative revolves around a quirky issue with a television set that displays images upside down, leading to a humorous and bizarre interaction between the owner, Stanley Rapp, and a young repairman. The story explores themes of absurdity and the blurred lines between technology and the supernatural. In this entertaining tale, Stanley Rapp calls a repairman to fix his television, which has mysteriously been showing everything upside down. As they discuss the peculiar situation, the repairman, who fancies himself a poet and a magician, decides to attempt some unconventional magic to solve the problem. After a whimsical and suspenseful effort involving a bizarre incantation, the television's images are eventually restored to the right side up, but not without unexpected consequences, as the repairman's actions may have altered something elsewhere. The story playfully highlights the intersection of everyday life and the surreal, leaving readers with a sense of humor and wonder about the possibilities of technology and magic. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Short stories Fantasy fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 38546 38547 2024-10-10T11:28:48.093226 2023-09-11T04:00:17.771119 text/html text/html 34901 2008-01-07T08:13:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 144638 2008-01-07T08:13:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 225245 2024-10-10T11:28:53.579208 application/epub+zip 223975 2024-10-10T11:28:51.226230 application/epub+zip 166216 2024-10-10T11:28:49.962230 application/epub+zip 277584 2024-10-10T11:28:55.238189 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 239268 2024-10-10T11:28:52.764231 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 154166 2022-09-11T08:45:00.809431 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 32505 32408 2024-10-10T11:28:47.821244 2023-09-11T04:00:17.600132 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 32406 2008-01-07T08:13:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 12415 2008-01-07T08:13:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19927 2024-10-10T11:28:55.364207 application/rdf+xml 15123 2024-10-10T11:28:50.502219 image/jpeg 4012 2024-10-10T11:28:50.227222 image/jpeg 229129 2024-10-10T11:28:48.103235 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