So, just to spice up the forums and their lack of activity, I need help getting something out of my mind.

I am thinking of a story, I am fairly sure a print (rather than film, for example) story, but I can only remember a tone and one element. I know this is really vague and useless, but maybe we will all discover something new in the process.

The idea is an enormous buried body.

That's it. Not necessarily a corpse, and it's not cthulhu, but maybe something in some sort of suspended animation. I think it's a science fiction story. I think I had a dream about it but didn't write it down in time to remember details, so maybe it is something my mind has conjured.

I also want to say that this body had some sort of face, but that might be wrong too.

Go!

It was probably part of some kind of midget porn release, considering your affection for watching small people have sex.

In all seriousness, can't help, sorry.

Wasn't there a giant skeleton in one of the computer simulations in Enders Game?

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is set in the city of New Crobuzon which sits under the enormous sun-bleached rib cage of some long-dead leviathan. Could that be it?

Can't help you, sorry.



That so totally reminded me of

This thread does not deliver.

Can it be The Last Question by Isaac Asimov?

Here's a quote:



[/FONT]Hell, here's the entire story: http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm

Well worth the read.

Good book. Looking forward to reading The Scar.

Tennyson's "The Kraken"

Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides: above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die

This made me think of two things:

1. Cabin in the Woods.
2. A short story where a guy from earth travels to various planets and there's a giant person who lives for a long time, and I believe it's quite an old story before we ever went to space, but I can't remember. Something about the flat-earthers, or something like that? Anyone remember this short story?

Flatland maybe? I haven't read it, but looked it up based on your description, and it sounds pretty fascinating...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland

I'm not sure if that's it, I don't recognize the writing. I think I got that one mixed up with another one, and they're really similar.

That actually might be it, I'll have to reread. Thanks man.



Never read it, but thanks for the tip, that looks up my alley.

FGR that is totally what happened.

I just reread The Last Question the other day. I don't think that's what I was thinking of, but it is one of my favorite short stories.

The Kraken is not it but is certainly similar in tone.

Kirbs, are you maybe thinking of part of Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon?

[URL="http://]http://www.amazon.com/Camouflage-Joe-Haldeman/dp/0441012523/ref=sr_1_19?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353120207&sr=1-19&keywords=Chameleon"][url=http://www.amazon.com/Camouflage-Joe-Haldeman/dp/0441012523/ref=sr_1_19?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353120207&sr=1-19&keywords=Chameleon]LINK[/url] [/URL]I might be stretching your original description a bit, but this book is great, and it involves surfacing and bringing to shore an incredibly dense object from the bottom of the ocean. Highly recommended.

Joe Haldeman is legit.

Will check.

David Foster Wallace's "On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, The Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon" is not the story you're looking for or really even close to it, but it's pretty incredible and you should read it.

I've almost made it all the way through Infinite Jest and I have committed to read everything the man ever wrote.

Spook, this is not a story from any novel or film, and it was no dream you had.

You are blessed with the sight.

You have come to us with divine prophecy.

That is the exact one I was getting mixed with Flat Earthers. Those two stories informed so much of my thinking at a young age. You have no idea how important finding this has been to me. Unfathomable amounts of gratitude.

Edit: I realize nothing I said in my post is directly in Star Maker, I can't believe you still figured it out.

Flirbnic don't joke about that, I already have a tenuous enough grasp on reality! That has triggered an irrational anxiety in me.

Kirbs, you're welcome. I think about that story a lot. The guy from earth travelling to a lot of planets pretty much sums it up, though in a totally inadequate way.