Hal Annas 9 min read

Confirmed woman-hater Jerry Kerran flips off the TV in disgust, but Professor Madigan's new magnetism, stronger than gravity, is about to draw him into exactly the trap he's spent his life avoiding.

Hal Annas's 1953 story mines comic AI-and-social-SF from a bachelor, a scientific marvel, and matrimonial peril. Light, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial battle-of-the-sexes romp where a determined misogamist meets his irresistible match.

In its time

Published in 1953, 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

W. E. Terry