Infinity S Child
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Description
Infinity's Child is a science fiction story by Charles DeVet. It appeared in Worlds of If for May 1952. A stark exchange stands at the head of the text. A leader orders a man to kill Koski. The man answers that he will be dead before he gets there. What has that to do with it, the leader asks.
The story proper follows Buckmaster as a plague takes his senses. Taste goes first: all food turns to flavourless gruel for a week. Feeling leaves him on the eighth day, and panic sends him to the telephone. He has isolated himself from his family as a precaution. A black wagon carries him to a crowded hospital ward. Sight fails next, in a shaft of afternoon sunlight. DeVet builds horror from subtraction, one sense at a time.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 77 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |