Den här novellen, som förmodligen (men inte säkert) serialiserades i analog eller galax för flera decennier sedan handlar om en strålande ung tjej som genom sina prestationer placeras i en specialskola.
Skolhuvudet (som jag tror, men är inte säker på att hon gifter sig så småningom) hade stora hopp för henne baserat på hennes heroiska prestanda innan hon gick in i skolan. Jag tror, men är inte säker, att hon motstod in i skolan.
Hon kan emellertid inte klara av de undervisningsmaskiner som används i skolan, vilket tillåter inlärning med en mycket ökad hastighet. Övriga elever i skolan har inga problem med maskinerna. Således måste hon lära sig på sin naturliga hastighet och bakom sig, även om hon studerar långa timmar.
Skolans huvud är väldigt besviken, och tycker att hon är envis - försöker bli flunkad ut. Så småningom rensas missförståndet och hon gör det bra i akademiska och fysiska utmaningar.
Detta är inte en ung vuxen roman - den föregick den genren av flera årtionden. Och det var inte av Heinlein.
Det här är allt jag kommer ihåg. Det var förmodligen en stor författare till SF.
"Ovilligt till skolan" , en novelette av Pauline Ashwell ; först publicerad i Förvånande Science Fiction , januari 1958 , tillgänglig på Internetarkiv ; återtryckt i antologin osamlade stjärnor och i Pauline Ashwell-samlingen < a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?52925"> Ovilligt till jorden . [ P.S. Bläddra ner för uppdatering. ]
Begäran av berättelsen introducerar berättaren / hjälten:
This may look like a moviegram of Brownian Movement but no such luck; it is Russett Interplanetary College of Humanities Opening Day, four thousand three hundred twenty-seven other freshers milling around and me in the middle with a little ticket on my chest says Lee, L. because my given name is something not to mention; they say these kids came from one hundred twenty-four planets just to study at Russett but personally of all points in the known continuum this is the one I would rather be any place But.
Freshers come in all sizes, all colors but a fair number are girls so there is one thing we will be finding in common anyway.
This may come as a surprise, that I am a girl, I mean. My tutor at Prelim School says my speech is feminine as spoken but written down looks like the kind of male character who spits sideways.
I reply that I talk like my Dad he is a character all right, male too but does not spit, if you spent your formative years with a filter in your kisser neither would you.
He says my flair for seeing the functional significance of the minutiae of behavior is obviously what got me chosen for the Cultural Engineering course.
Huh.
I know what got me into that all right I am not so dumb as I look.
Hennes problem med läsning av maskiner:
Beschrievene says that the safety device only turns off the Crammer, the rest of the machine goes on working but only at the rate for unassisted reading about one-tenth normal rate.
M'Clare says, "You, my girl, have been trying to keep up with a course designed for people who could absorb information seven or eight times as fast. No wonder your knowledge seemed a bit sketchy."
Historien fortsätter med "The Lost Kafoozalum" på Analog Science Fact & Fiktion , oktober 1960 , som återges tillsammans med "Ovilligt till skolan" i Ashwells samling Ovilligt till jorden , och finns tillgänglig på Project Gutenberg .
Jag är inte säker på om professor M'Clare är skolans chef, men hon slutar gifta sig med honom:
"You know, Lizzie, I dislike risking the lives of any of the students for whom I am responsible, but as it happens I find the idea of you—blowing yourself to atoms particularly objectionable because ... I happen to be in love with you. You're also one of my best students, I used to think that ... was why I'd been so insistent on your coming to Russett, but I rather think ... my motives were mixed even then. I meant to tell you this after you graduated, and to ask you to marry me, not that ... I thought you would, I know quite well ... you never quite forgave me, but I don't-want-to-have to remember ... I didn't ... have the guts to—"
[. . . .]
It is just as well my Education has come to an honorable end, because ... well, shades of ... well, Goodness gracious and likewise Dear me, I am going to marry a Professor.
Uppdatering. Egentligen fanns det fyra berättelser i serien: de två jag nämnde och två mer publicerade årtionden senare. Citat Wikipedia (vissa länkar tillagda):
Unwillingly to Earth (1993), a fix-up of four previously published stories detailing the space adventures of the young Lysistrata (aka "Lizzie") Lee, including
"Unwillingly to School" (Astounding Science Fiction, January 1958), set on the rough mining planet where Lizzie was born and from which she was sent against her will to university on Earth. [Available at the Internet Archive.] "Rats in the Moon" (Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1982), where Lizzie exposes plots of interplanetary political corruption on Earth's Moon. "Fatal Statistics" (Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, July 1988), where Lizzie negotiates between hostile factions on the planet Figueroa, whose civilization collapsed, and helps survivors make a new start. "The Lost Kafoozalum" (Analog Science Fact -> Fiction, October 1960), where Lizzie takes part in a daring plot to avert nuclear war on the planet Incognita, and when things go terribly wrong she sets them right, saves the life of her professor and eventually marries him. [Available at Project Gutenberg.]
Läs andra frågor om taggar story-identification novel Kärlek och kompatibilitet Skor Gear 12 Stjärntecken Grunderna