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I am looking at Bradbury being the author of two short stories that I would like the titles of.

One is about a commuter on a subway that has a strange sensation during his commute and I believe the premise is that people are being studied like an ant farm.

The other is about a gardener and his greenhouse in a post-apocolyptic world. I think this one was made into a movie short.

Any help one these would be appretiated.

Thanks

Dean
 
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That first premise has been used in more than one story but I don't recognize that particular setting.

The 1972 film "Silent Running" was written by Deric Washburn and Michael Cimino (as Mike Cimino) and Steven Bochco. It was also a book, but I think that was a novelization of the film, not a book first.
 
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These replies came by way of the newsgroups rec.arts.books.childrens and rec.arts.sf.written.

From: anxious triffid
Could it be "The Tunnel Under The World" by Frederik Pohl?

From: machf
I don't remember any subways in "The Tunnel Under The World"...
 
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The subway story strikes me as something by Harlan Ellison - maybe "Repent Harlequin, Said the Ticktockman."
 
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These replies came by way of the Booksleuth Forums at Abebooks.

From:� Rocambole
It's definitely not that, and I can't think of any Ellisons it might be. I'll keep mulling it over, but so far the only similar one I can think of doesn't involve subways (or transportation) at all.

From:� krokodile
Try Issac Asimov's early story 'The Little Man on the Subway.'

Published in 1950 in Fantasic Stories - and reprinted in book form in the UK in Panther 'The Early Asimov Volume 2.

Regards
steve
 
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This reply came by way of the newsgroups rec.arts.books.childrens and rec.arts.sf.written.

From: machf
Hmmm... I don't think that one fulfills the description either; there isn't anything about people being studied like in an ant farm, but rather, a jnaanor-tbq gelvat gb trg rabhtu oryvriref gb fhccbeg uvf cbjre.

Marco Antonio Checa Funcke
Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru

Huh? That's not Greek to me and somehow doesn't seem quite like Spanish either.
 
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This reply came from aRJay by way of the newsgroups rec.arts.books.childrens and rec.arts.sf.written.

That's because it is ROT13, each letter is replaced with the one 13 letters later in the alphabet. Many newsreaders have a control to decode this somewhere, there are also websites that will also do the work.

This reply came from Rocambole by way of the BookSleuth Forums at Abebooks.

It's rot-13. Translates as "wannabe-god trying to get enough believers to support his power".
 
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FYI, the novelization of "Silent Running" was by Harlan Thompson; I have a copy, very thin little paperback.

The movie was one of the first "true" SF films that I saw in the theater.

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