Sydney J. Van Scyoc 16 min read

A sixteen-year-old newlywed keeps a diary at the command of her genius husband Bimmie, whose basement laboratory will one day make them famous.

Sydney J. Van Scyoc's 1962 story is narrated in the artless, comic voice of young Bimmie's adoring wife, chronicling their odd marriage and his grand scientific ambitions. Wry, offbeat social SF with a distinctive voice and a psi-powered undercurrent. Read it for a funny, sly golden-age tale told by exactly the wrong, and perfect, narrator.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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