Philip José Farmer 34 min read

The arrogant B. T. Revanche strides through Bioid Electronic like a very important man indeed, into one of Philip José Farmer's dizzying flights of comic apocalyptic fancy.

Philip José Farmer's 1954 story is a wild, funny hard-SF and social-SF romp. Inventive, madcap, unpredictable. Read it for Farmer's gift of laughter turned loose, a giddy, surreal satire that upends the ordinary world into something out of Alice in Wonderland by way of the laboratory, in a gleefully unpredictable golden-age comedy.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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