C. C. MacApp 22 min read

It could be deadly, and it had to be tested, but Sales wanted the new hormone product this very minute, and the pressure from Buffalo would come before long.

C. C. MacApp's 1961 story is a sharp hard-SF and social-SF tale of corporate haste. Clever, pointed golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a chemical company's rush to market a powerful new compound, before it's properly tested, sets a cautionary chain of consequences in motion.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Martinez