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by: James Nicoll - Fri, 1 Dec 2023 15:13 UTC

Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and Supernatural Communication Devices

The phone rings. Is it Ikea delivering furniture? Or is it...Satan!
Or perhaps Satan delivering furniture as a side-gig?

https://www.tor.com/2023/12/01/five-stories-featuring-spooky-phones-and-supernatural-communication-devices/
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by: Dimensional Traveler - Fri, 1 Dec 2023 17:01 UTC

On 12/1/2023 7:13 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and Supernatural Communication Devices
>
> The phone rings. Is it Ikea delivering furniture? Or is it...Satan!
> Or perhaps Satan delivering furniture as a side-gig?
>
> https://www.tor.com/2023/12/01/five-stories-featuring-spooky-phones-and-supernatural-communication-devices/

Do you have proof that Ikea _isn't_ a subsidiary of Hell?

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by: Jack Bohn - Fri, 1 Dec 2023 17:32 UTC

James Nicoll wrote:
> Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and Supernatural Communication Devices
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> https://www.tor.com/2023/12/01/five-stories-featuring-spooky-phones-and-supernatural-communication-devices/

My mom is a Mitch Albom fan, and I read books such as _The First Phone Call from Heaven_ and _The Time Keeper_ with a certain "please don't say anything stupid" tenseness. My memory is that he didn't, at least, not anything that we wouldn't allow an established writer of speculative fiction. Otherwise, my memory of them tends to blur. Anyway, the first is the one I'm suggesting for this list.

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by: Michael F. Stemper - Fri, 1 Dec 2023 21:04 UTC

On 01/12/2023 09.13, James Nicoll wrote:
> Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and Supernatural Communication Devices
>
> The phone rings. Is it Ikea delivering furniture? Or is it...Satan!
> Or perhaps Satan delivering furniture as a side-gig?
>
> https://www.tor.com/2023/12/01/five-stories-featuring-spooky-phones-and-supernatural-communication-devices/

Two short stories that seem to qualify:

"Dial 'F' for Frankenstein", by Arthur C. Clarke

Based on the theory that, if a network becomes sufficiently complex,
it will become conscious.

<https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?62000>

"Night Call, Collect", by Ray Bradbury

The last man on Mars is alone in his room, when the telephone rings.
Who could be calling?

<https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?58411>

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by: Scott Dorsey - Sat, 2 Dec 2023 01:17 UTC

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>On 12/1/2023 7:13 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and Supernatural Communication Devices
>>
>> The phone rings. Is it Ikea delivering furniture? Or is it...Satan!
>> Or perhaps Satan delivering furniture as a side-gig?
>>
>> https://www.tor.com/2023/12/01/five-stories-featuring-spooky-phones-and-supernatural-communication-devices/
>
>Do you have proof that Ikea _isn't_ a subsidiary of Hell?

Hell is in Norway. Norwegians and Swedes never get along.
--scott
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by: artyw2@yahoo.com - Sat, 2 Dec 2023 03:15 UTC

On Friday, December 1, 2023 at 7:17:24 PM UTC-6, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
> >On 12/1/2023 7:13 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> >> Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and Supernatural Communication Devices
> >>
> >> The phone rings. Is it Ikea delivering furniture? Or is it...Satan!
> >> Or perhaps Satan delivering furniture as a side-gig?
> >>
> >> https://www.tor.com/2023/12/01/five-stories-featuring-spooky-phones-and-supernatural-communication-devices/
> >
> >Do you have proof that Ikea _isn't_ a subsidiary of Hell?
> Hell is in Norway. Norwegians and Swedes never get along.
> --scott

So it will be a cold day in hell when they do?

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(tor dot com) Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and Supernatural Communicatio	James Nicoll
Re: (tor dot com) Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and	artyw2@yahoo.com
Re: (tor dot com) Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and	Dimensional Traveler
Re: (tor dot com) Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and	Scott Dorsey
Re: (tor dot com) Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and	artyw2@yahoo.com
Re: (tor dot com) Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and	Jack Bohn
Re: (tor dot com) Five Stories Featuring Spooky Phones and	Michael F. Stemper