Muck Man
Unknown
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Description
Fremont Dodge wrote Muck Man, a science fiction story printed in Worlds of If in November 1963. The tag line states its bargain plainly. The work was not hard, but there were sacrifices. You had to give up hope and freedom, and being human. The story opens in a courtroom. Asa Graybar, a young biological engineer, is led out after conviction for grand theft.
Asa believes he was framed. Tom Dorr, a manager for the planter Hazeltyne, had hidden a fresh Slider egg in his laboratory, or so Asa is certain without proof. His cellmate Jumpy asks the sentence: five or one. Five years in a rehabilitation clinic, or one year on a changeling deal that few survive. Jumpy advises the five. Dodge builds the story on that choice, and on a penal system that punishes men by changing what they are.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |