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Daemon
Shortstory by C. L. Moore first appeared in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1946.
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First published October 1, 1946
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C.L. Moore
356 books230 followersExcerpted from Wikipedia:
Catherine Lucille Moore was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore. She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction.
Moore met Henry Kuttner, also a science fiction writer, in 1936 when he wrote her a fan letter (mistakenly thinking that "C. L. Moore" was a man), and they married in 1940.
Afterwards, almost all of their stories were written in collaboration under various pseudonyms, most commonly Lewis Padgett (another pseudonym, one Moore often employed for works that involved little or no collaboration, was Lawrence O'Donnell).
Catherine Lucille Moore was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore. She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction.
Moore met Henry Kuttner, also a science fiction writer, in 1936 when he wrote her a fan letter (mistakenly thinking that "C. L. Moore" was a man), and they married in 1940.
Afterwards, almost all of their stories were written in collaboration under various pseudonyms, most commonly Lewis Padgett (another pseudonym, one Moore often employed for works that involved little or no collaboration, was Lawrence O'Donnell).
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July 1, 2026
The Boy Who Sees Spirits
28 June 2026
This feels a little longer than others, and I did end up reading it twice, probably because when I was first reading it I was a little tired and ended up losing track of what was going on. What I could tell was it was about a boy that had been kidnapped and forced to work on a ship, and there was something about daemons hanging around people, including the captain.
Well, it was about a boy from the slums in Rio whose parents had died. It was from his point of view, and he seemed to have this ability to be able to see into the spirit realm. Basically everybody had this spirit that hang around behind them (and the impression that I got was that he didn’t have one, or none was mentioned). While on the ship they pick up this old Irish man and they become friends.
So, the captain is quite a brute, and he ends up dumping them on an island, and the Irishman then dies leaving the boy alone. Sure, the boy struggled to learn how to survive on the island but it turns out that there were spirits there that managed to guide him. Then the captain returns.
It is an interesting story, and the addition of the spirits does give it more flare than what a standard story would have. In a way it feels that they don’t seem to have a role to play – they just hang around, and of course nobody else can see them.
Look, it was an interesting story, I sort of liked it. And in a way it is a story sort of like Kidnapped but with a supernatural twist.
28 June 2026
This feels a little longer than others, and I did end up reading it twice, probably because when I was first reading it I was a little tired and ended up losing track of what was going on. What I could tell was it was about a boy that had been kidnapped and forced to work on a ship, and there was something about daemons hanging around people, including the captain.
Well, it was about a boy from the slums in Rio whose parents had died. It was from his point of view, and he seemed to have this ability to be able to see into the spirit realm. Basically everybody had this spirit that hang around behind them (and the impression that I got was that he didn’t have one, or none was mentioned). While on the ship they pick up this old Irish man and they become friends.
So, the captain is quite a brute, and he ends up dumping them on an island, and the Irishman then dies leaving the boy alone. Sure, the boy struggled to learn how to survive on the island but it turns out that there were spirits there that managed to guide him. Then the captain returns.
It is an interesting story, and the addition of the spirits does give it more flare than what a standard story would have. In a way it feels that they don’t seem to have a role to play – they just hang around, and of course nobody else can see them.
Look, it was an interesting story, I sort of liked it. And in a way it is a story sort of like Kidnapped but with a supernatural twist.
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