James Stamers 27 min read

Brilliant? A genius? Professor David Adam Smith had the brains of fifty men, very literally. And poor Morris is his stooge, his squirming straight man, the butt of his endless 'hig, hig, hig.'

James Stamers's 1960 story is a witty hard-SF and social-SF tale of a most unusual genius. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a droll story where the eccentric owner of a desert institute proves to be far more than one man, and his long-suffering assistant gets the last laugh.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

27 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

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