| "Or All the Seas with Oysters" | |
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| Short story by Avram Davidson | |
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| Genre(s) | Science fiction |
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| Publication date | 1958 |
"Or All the Seas with Oysters" is a science fiction short story by American writer Avram Davidson. It first appeared in the May 1958 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction and won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1958. [1] One of Davidson's best-known stories, it has been anthologized or collected more than a dozen times.
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