The Four and a Half Minute Boiled Egg
By Cora Buhlert
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This parodistic piece is a mundane short story of 3500 words, written in the style of science fiction's "golden age" of the 1940s and 1950s.
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The Four and a Half Minute Boiled Egg - Cora Buhlert
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Introduction
The Four and a Half Minute Boiled Egg is a parody, intended to poke fun at the conventions of a certain kind of science fiction story.
This story was written in response to the Not Really SF Short Story Challenge instigated by science fiction and fantasy writer E.P. Beaumont.
The challenge was a response to complaints by some more traditionally minded science fiction writers and fans that science fiction had been invaded by literary writing and that the virtues, values and scientific rigour of science fiction’s so-called golden age
had been forgotten.
In response, E.P. Beaumont proposed launching a counter invasion of literary fiction by science fiction. The challenge was to write an entirely mundane and realistic short story in the style of science fiction’s golden age
, complete with clunky overexplanation of every single piece of technology, no matter how mundane, with which the characters interact.
The Four and a Half Minute Boiled Egg is such a story. It is the story of a couple arguing at the breakfast table told as if it were a hard science fiction story of the 1950s.
I would like to thank Wikipedia and the Internet for providing an overview of the science and technology behind many common household objects.
I would also like to apologise to the