George O. Smith 42 min read

Thomas Lionel bounds out of bed singing off-key, glorying in his first victory, the right to co-occupy his own mind alongside the engineer, no longer to be dismissed as a mere expensive detriment.

George O. Smith's 1945 story is a clever hard-SF and social-SF tale. Sharp, witty golden-age SF. Read it for another inventive tale of a man's mind shared between two intelligences, told with Smith's engineering humor and puzzle-craft, in a well-turned golden-age piece about the uneasy, productive partnership of two minds forced to live in one head.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

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