Stanley G. Weinbaum 24 min read

'I am too modest!' snaps the great Haskel van Manderpootz, pacing his laboratory, undervaluing his own genius, and so letting petty imitators steal the prizes he plainly deserves.

Stanley G. Weinbaum's story is a witty hard-SF and social-SF tale starring his comic genius van Manderpootz. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a delightful invention-comedy where the professor's device for seeing through another's eyes, literally adopting another's point of view, leads to bright and unexpected trouble.

In its time

Published in 1949, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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