Brainchild
Unknown
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Description
Henry Slesar wrote Brainchild, a tale from Worlds of If in April 1957. A front note says Ron definitely did not like what had happened. How would you like to wake and find your body had been switched for a child's, it asks. Ron Carver's day begins strangely as the tale opens.
The legs Ron swings off his narrow bed will not touch the floor. His hands, whose ten strong fingers could work the controls of any ship ever launched, are weak and clumsy. He looks at the hands for a long time, then screams. Shrill, piping screams do not stop when a giant woman bends over him. She strokes his thin shoulders with giant, comforting gestures and calls him Ronnie. The hands are those of a boy of twelve, the tale says. Ron Carver is thirty years old. Two giant men join the woman at his bedside.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 66 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |