McGonigal's Worm by R. A. Lafferty
It happened unnoticed, though it affected every chordate on Earth, a sudden worldwide sterility of all backboned life, with one small, genuine exception.
R. A. Lafferty's 1960 story is a wry, ingenious first-contact and social-SF tale of a quiet catastrophe befalling the animal kingdom. Clever, inimitable golden-age SF. Read it for a characteristically odd Lafferty story where the end of all vertebrate life turns on a single humble exception.
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- In its time
- Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.
- Reading it
- 12 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).
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