Richard Sabia 52 min read

'Get away from me!' screams Dr. Berry at the amiable, drawling farm boy, because wherever tow-headed Dolliver Wims goes, catastrophe follows, and the doctor's fresh scar proves it.

Richard Sabia's 1963 story mines broad comedy from a good-natured hick whose mere presence works uncanny, disastrous luck. Funny, fast golden-age SF. Read it for a genial romp about an innocent youth whose accidental powers make him the deadliest weapon nobody wants around.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

52 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Kelly Freas