Project Gutenberg 2020-01-31 Public domain in the USA. 54 Neville, Kris 1925 1980 Neville, Kris Ottman Too Many Eggs Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Too Many Eggs" by Kris Melville is a whimsical science fiction short story written in the early 1960s. This narrative presents a humorous exploration of unexpected consequences stemming from an unusual purchase—a refrigerator that inexplicably produces packages of fish eggs. The story delves into themes of consumerism and the absurdity of everyday life, making readers ponder the nature of desire and fulfillment. In the story, the protagonist, Coxe, purchases a deeply discounted refrigerator that begins to mysteriously generate fish eggs. As the days pass, the quantity of fish eggs multiplies, leading Coxe and his girlfriend to give them away to friends and family to manage the growing supply. Eventually, Coxe realizes that he has consumed the last of them, only to be confronted by a frazzled man claiming to be associated with the refrigerator's peculiar output. This man reveals the horror of Coxe's actions—that the fish eggs were not mere delicacies but a significant part of a larger, troubling reality. The story cleverly juggles comedic elements with darker implications, leaving readers with a chilling twist and a sense of irony about the consequences of indulgence. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 31945 31948 2024-09-25T09:11:36.018259 2023-09-26T08:31:25.285429 text/html text/html 318368 2020-01-30T22:05:02 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 8396 2024-10-15T11:04:28 text/html 96215 2024-09-25T09:11:37.912252 application/epub+zip 95136 2024-09-25T09:11:36.676246 application/epub+zip 78831 2024-09-25T09:11:36.464248 application/epub+zip 127344 2024-09-25T09:11:39.133258 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 120334 2024-09-25T09:11:37.720249 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 104156 2022-09-27T17:07:50.133359 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 26203 26210 2024-09-25T09:11:35.923265 2023-09-26T08:31:25.192430 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 6416 2024-10-15T11:04:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 26456 2020-01-30T22:05:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 9741 2020-01-30T22:05:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18516 2024-09-25T09:11:39.251223 application/rdf+xml 31441 2024-09-25T09:11:36.548252 image/jpeg 5032 2024-09-25T09:11:36.508245 image/jpeg 319695 2024-09-25T09:11:36.027275 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