Who wrote the short story that the 1995 cable television movie film loosely adapted from?
Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ( ; November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969).
Waterclap "Waterclap" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was written at the request of a movie company and was intended to serve as the basis of a film treatment. However, the author disliked the proposed characters and storyline and deliberately set out to write a story that he hoped would be rejected. The story was indeed rejected by the studio and was later published in the May 1970 issue of "If" and reprinted in the 1976 collection "The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories".