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Anytime I end up talking to someone about sci-fi stories I always end up bringing up a short story that I read >20 years ago when I was a young teenager. I've never remembered the name or author of the story which has always been frustrating. In the story two kids find some weird toys. To the children's parents the toys looks random and patternless, but the kids see patterns in them which seem to educate the children. The gist is that the adults can't figure them out because they have been taught our math, science, etc... and so have preconceptions. The toys function on different principles and truths than our math and science, but because the children haven't learned our principles they are able to figure the toys out. Their lack of preconceptions was key.

The story really made an impression on me, I suppose because of the message.

When I saw the previews for "The Last Mimzy " the other night I thought it looked interesting. I looked it up tonight. It's based on that short story that I read so long ago which I now know is called "Mimsy Were The Borogoves" which is credited as being by Lewis Padgett which is a pseudonym for the husband and wife team of Henry Kuttner and C L. Moore. I'm stoked. I have to see this movie.

Synopsis/Review of the short story

The title of the short story comes from the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll