Tales of Crazy Scientists
There was a time when I shunned short stories, preferring the wide-ranging saga of the sort I wrote about in The Interstellar Undertakers and its two companion volumes. However, there are certain subjects which find their natural place in the short story. And since I was occasionally accused of being a (mild) example of the type when I was a professor of astrophysics, I was drawn to the vintage problem of the crazy scientist. There follows a collection of a dozen stories with this as theme. Some of the stories are, I admit, dark in tone. As reader you can of course take them in any order you wish. But for those who desire a lighter treatment, the first and last have a measure of levity.
Individual Stories (PDF documents):
- Plan M for Mercury (124K)
- Hello, We Wish to Inform You That… (110K)
- Prosaic Endings (107K)
- Who’ll Gimme Fifty? (90K)
- The Unusual Evil of Jonathon Hedwin White (118K)
- Merry Christmas (103K)
- Gnash Not What Your Country Can Do For You, But What Your Teeth Can Do For Your Country (136K)
- As Time Tends to Infinity (99K)
- Seven Ways to Oblivion (115K)
- A Whiff of Freedom (92K)
- Monsters from the Id (146K)
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon (163K)
Or, download the entire book in PDF format:
- Tales of Crazy Scientists (789K)