Guess Person Game

James wrote: Is he anything to do with King Arthur?

no

English language book?

Is it mythological?

is it from a fable?

James wrote: Marvin the Paranoid Android?

no, not Marvin

there was a movie made out of the story, yes.

hint: 10 years after the story was first published a best-selling American author published a novel which in my honest opinion is at least partially a parody of the story. the novel has several plot lines though,and only one of those lines resembles the story

Presumably the novelist is not Japanese?

James wrote: Brave Little Toaster aka The Toaster. Oooh, it just has to be that. The short story you're referring to though is the second one "The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars".

it is the brave little toaster, and the story I am referring to is the original first one "Brave Little Toaster". well done, James. "Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars" is the sequel. my clues all referred to the original first story.

the American author who parodied the story is Tom Robbins. in his novel "Skinny Legs and All" it is not a toaster, a hoover, an electric blanket, a lamp and a radio who go on the quest, as in "Brave Little Toaster", it is a teaspoon, a dirty sock, a can of beans, a painted stick and a conch shell. but the similarity to the toaster story is obvious.

the story was nominated for the Hugo award and for the Nebula award, which it both did not win. it won a Locus Award, a British SF Association award and a Seiun award (that is the Japanese one).


Edited by BaldJean - January 22 2012 at 21:08

James wrote: I was referring to the Hayakawa award: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayakawa_Award I managed to get the answer via that and hence why I said the sequel as it was that that won the above.  I didn't even get as far as the Seiun award.

the sequel has some additional household appliances, like a microwave, a ceiling fan, and an old computer named "Wittgenstein"

desistindo wrote: I just dont understood one thing: you said it was from a "story", but actually it was an animation, right? i was thinking it more like a folk tale or something

the animation picture is based on the original story. the story was later published in book form, but first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-Fiction