Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2022-02-25 Public domain in the USA. 124 Cohen, Chester Conant, Chester B. Coe, Chester Conanight Giunta, John 1920 1970 Giunta Guinta, John Giunta, J. Round-Up Time $aUnited States :$bRoyal Publications, Inc,$c1956. Produced from Infinity Science Fiction, June 1956 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Round-Up Time" by Chester Cohen is a short story likely written in the mid-20th century, around the 1950s. This piece combines elements of speculative fiction and social commentary, exploring themes of mass hysteria and the effects of an unusual spectacle in an urban setting. The narrative centers around the bizarre and chaotic events that unfold when a character known as Queerpants unexpectedly captivates a crowd in Central Park. The story follows a protagonist who, struggling to make ends meet, finds unexpected fortune on the Fourth of July when he encounters a peculiar man, Queerpants. As Queerpants appears to conduct an imaginary performance, a throng of onlookers becomes entranced, showering the narrator with money as they are seemingly spellbound by the spectacle. The excitement crescendos as the crowd follows Queerpants to a strange, hovering structure that resembles a giant banana, where people willingly enter without apparent concern for their safety. Ultimately, the narrator, feeling alienated by the madness and left with a pile of money, grapples with the unsettling reality that everyone around him appears to have lost their sanity, leaving him questioning the events he has just witnessed. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20220206105803cohen 1956 US Reading ease score: 89.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Human-alien encounters -- Fiction Beggars -- Fiction Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: American Literature 39234 2025-07-26T14:08:57.449841 text/html 15212 2024-10-18T19:35:58 text/html 457906 2025-07-26T14:08:59.280826 application/epub+zip 456740 2025-07-26T14:08:57.906853 application/epub+zip 72449 2025-07-26T14:08:57.650813 application/epub+zip 490641 2025-07-26T14:09:00.518875 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 483723 2025-07-26T14:08:59.069872 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 99462 2022-09-30T11:04:30.337703 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 32974 2025-07-26T14:08:57.335845 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13109 2024-10-18T19:35:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18120 2025-07-26T14:09:00.703843 application/rdf+xml 29995 2025-07-26T14:08:57.762840 image/jpeg 5188 2025-07-26T14:08:57.705851 image/jpeg 489515 2025-07-26T14:08:57.468892 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia