Winston K. Marks 22 min read

Warned that no romantic should specialize in gynecology, the handsomest intern north of the equator ends up married, divorced, disgraced, and broke, with three strange goals for his comeback.

Winston K. Marks's 1954 story spins wry hard-SF and social-SF comedy from a doctor who must practice without ever touching his patients. Light, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a droll tale of a disgraced physician's ingenious, science-fictional scheme to rebuild his ruined career.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

W. E. Terry