Michael Shaara 9 min read

Being unique is a point of pride, but being a complete mathematical impossibility? So begins the remarkable, world-shaking distinction of one Thatcher Blitt in the year 2180.

Michael Shaara's 1956 story spins genial social-SF comedy from a man who is, statistically, one of a kind. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a droll tale about an ordinary businessman whose singular distinction turns the whole world upside down.

In its time

Published in 1956, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Dick Francis