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The Ideal By Stanley G. Weinbaum

The Ideal

By Stanley G. Weinbaum

  • Release Date: 2012-06-01
  • Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • $2.99
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After making science-fiction history with his beloved and broadly influential tale "A Martian Odyssey," Stanley G. Weinbaum turned his creative powers to a series of stories starring a mismatched pair of protagonists: legend-in-his-own-mind Professor Haskel van Manderpootz and dashing aristocrat Dixon Wells. In the engaging short story "The Ideal," the two develop a device that allows the user to catch a fleeting glimpse of his or her ideal in any category -- person, place or thing.

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