Vanishing Point

by C.C. Beck

Great Sci Fi short story by C. C. Beck!

Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Art, Fiction

7 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 22, 2007

Reviews

[Chris Aldridge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Part of LibriVox Short Science Fiction Collection 014. Also in 015 & 046. I personally found this a fairly interesting discussion of perspective, probably due to my interest in geometric art and various experiences that changed my view on “what reality really is”. I too came to the conclusion that we make it up to a far greater degree than most people believe, but as I managed to remain relatively sane I still believe that there is a fundamental objective reality at the roots of our disparate perceptions. As we have recently created machines that can draw and even paint the story is slightly dated but overall I found it to be a fun read.11:47

[Zen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a bad story.

As an artist, I found the discussion on perspective and the illusion of line of sight interesting. There's even a hint of Schrodinger's Cat lurking in the story.

And so, in the course if the story, a Crackpot Inventor decides to tear Reality a new ah...ah,....Tesseract.

But unfortunately nothing is really done with the created premise. Except that Carter, the inventor of the Perspective Machine, panics and disappears down the road like a Cartoon Coyote.

"Art is an Illusion, a bag of tricks. Reality is something else, not what we think it is."

[Phil Giunta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Anticlimactic story about an artist who constructs a machine with the purpose of proving that the reality we experience is merely an illusion. He then claims to have opened a rift in the fabric of reality and drives off, abandoning his invention.

[PSXtreme · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kind of leaves the reader hanging at the end without a clear cut answer to the whole story.

[Nicole (book.quill) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting food for thought about artists' perspective but nothing spectacular

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Audiobook. Raised to 3.75

[Tony Ciak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Weird, scifi, short story....thinking

[sabbath · Rating 3 out of 5]

yah that's prolly what i'd do if i had a machine that could disintegrate the fabric of reality

[Ralph McEwen · Rating 2 out of 5]

The artistic perspective tool taken to it ultimate version.

Audio Book MP3 downloaded from http://librivox.org/short-science-fic...
Public Domain stories from Project Gutenberg, that are read by volunteers.
I listen to these short stories while walking to and from work.

Play Duration: 00:11:47
Read by: Dan Gurzynski

[Rich Meyer · Rating 2 out of 5]

A quaint tale by the creator of the original Captain Marvel, about an artist with aptitudes beyond his calling that get the better of him. Could have used a little more development and denouement, and comes off as 2/3rds of an episode of Twilight Zone.