Charles L. Fontenay 4 min read

Dr. Angstrom, cold blue goat's eyes, waggling whiskers, the disposition of a goat with dyspepsia, is even more goatish than usual the day he previews his experiment in transmitting a live animal.

Charles L. Fontenay's 1957 story is a wry psi-powers and social-SF comedy. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial tale where a cantankerous professor's matter-transmission experiment on a real, ornery goat goes hilariously and instructively awry before an audience of top scientists.

In its time

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

Reading it

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