Edwin Baird 12 min read

A rich chemist who believes anything man can dream, man can do, sets out to make his most fantastic dream real.

Edwin Baird's 1937 story introduces Anton Slezak, a self-made dreamer-scientist convinced that the future of mankind rests on the visionary in his laboratory, until one dream proves too much. Dark, ironic weird-science fiction from the founding editor of Weird Tales. Read it for a cautionary golden-age tale about ambition, imagination, and the price of a dream fulfilled.

In its time

Published in 1937, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

12 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Margaret Brundage