Or All the Seas with Oysters

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"Or All the Seas with Oysters"
Author	Avram Davidson
Genre(s)	Science Fiction
Publication date	1958

"Or All the Seas with Oysters" is a science fiction short story by Avram Davidson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1958.

[edit] Plot summary

Struck by the fact that there are never enough pins and always too many coat-hangers, a bicycle shop owner begins to speculate on the possible parallels between nature and man-made objects.

[edit] Awards

v • d • e Hugo Award for Best Short Story (1946–1960) Retro Hugos Uncommon Sense by Hal Clement (1946) · To Serve Man by Damon Knight (1951) · The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke (1954) 1955–1960 Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russell (1955) · The Star by Arthur C. Clarke (1956) · Or All the Seas with Oysters by Avram Davidson (1958) · That Hell-Bound Train by Robert Bloch (1959) · Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (1960) Complete List · 1946–1960 · 1961–1980 · 1981–2000 · 2001–present

[edit] Sources, references, external links, quotations

• Or All the Seas with Oysters publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database