help identifying an SF short story

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:18 pm

A long time ago when I used to eat 3 books a day I read a fantastic short story.

Basic premise is that a boy is growing his own sun in his bedroom from a kit that his parents have bought him. After he has exhausted all the material that came with the kit he starts to throw in the contents of the garden shed and his parents kitchen and then one day he notices that his sun is going eliptical but he continues to feed it and then one day it becomes a black hole and sucks in its own containment chamber and his bedroom - the story ends with him running down the street which as he looks back is also going into his mini black hole.

Can anybody identify the story and/or the author - it was in an anthology and I have a desire to track it down and own it once more.

Cheers,

DH

MKG · Post by **MKG** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:51 am

Mmmm ... sounds familiarish. And although I can't remember, it sounds awfully Ray Bradburyish. I'll try to do some searching around and see what I can come up with.

Mike

Frame · Post by **Frame** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:17 am

Sounds very familiar.. however I lost out to google and various library sites.. can´t indentify the author nor any part of the story Online...

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:27 pm

I found a site suggesting the story (still no name) might be by Rod Serling (of The Twilight Zone fame) but additional searches based on this premise also became a dead end...

MKG · Post by **MKG** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:06 pm

Having slept, I woke up with the name Gregory Benford going through my mind. Any help?

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:20 pm

Interesting - I will investigate further - the name is familiar - thank-you...

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:02 am

Not found any short stories, but two full novels come up in my search:

Earth, by David Brin

The Hole, by John Reed

Both are kind of satirical in nature. Other possibilities are that it was a short by Larry Niven (who is known for writing about black holes) or could have indeed been written by (or featured in an anthology edited by) Gregory Benford...