Allamagoosa
Sign in to save"Allamagoosa" is a Hugo-winning humorous science fiction short story by the English author Eric Frank Russell, originally published in the May 1955 issue of Astounding.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1955 short stories, Hugo Award for Best Short Story–winning works and Humorous science fiction.
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- literary work
- Author
- Eric Frank Russell
- Genre
- science fiction
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
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- title
- Allamagoosa
- publication date
- 1955-05-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- form of creative work
- short story
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"Allamagoosa" is a Hugo-winning humorous science fiction short story by the English author Eric Frank Russell, originally published in the May 1955 issue of Astounding.
The story is a satire of the bureaucratic mindset - in this case in a military setting - and the second-order complications caused by a "creative" attempt to evade it. It has been collected in The Hugo Winners (1962), The Best Of Eric Frank Russell (1978), and Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell (2000), as well as a number of other anthologies.
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