Alan Edward Nourse 23 min read

Every guy hits a point once in his life where he's a hundred and forty percent fed up with his wife, and for the narrator, being split into two men might solve everything. But which one would he be?

Alan E. Nourse's 1957 story is a wry hard-SF and social-SF tale of a man literally divided by a scientific process. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story where a fed-up husband's chance to duplicate himself raises a very awkward question of identity.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John Schoenherr