Literary Significance and Criticism
The story is credited by Robert A. Heinlein as possibly the origin of the flat cats in his novel The Rolling Stones, since he may have read it or heard it as a child, but due to the intervening time he could not be sure. The concept obviously had some currency because it also shows up in the famous Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles".
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