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![]() Jim Horty, convicted and sentenced to death, faced not execution - but a bizarre scientific experiment. The very substance of his entire body was to be dissolved and then only the best of him reconstituted, the recessive decent man would be brought to the fore.
Was the great scientist able to reintegrate Jim Horty, convicted murderer? Was Horty now the best version of himself?
Jim Horty yawned, opened his eyes,
looked bewilderedly about him... Ken sprang forward, turned them off.
"You're all right now, Horty," he
soothed. "Take it easy. Here are your
clothes."
"You know," he said slowly, and Ken
noted with thumping heart that, though
it was the voice of Horty, yet the diction, the modulations, had changed, become softer, more precise, "I had a
dream, and it was a terrible one. I
must have fallen asleep."
He looked again at his prison clothes,
at Dr. Bascom. Then he smiled wryly.
Somehow his brutish features were suffused with new light. "I'm to be executed, am I not? Well, I'm ready for
it. The sentence was fair and just. I
was a murderer. Funny though," and
again that puzzled look crept into his
eyes, "I must have been crazy, doing
the things I did. Robbery! Murder!
Why, I— I wouldn't hurt a fly!
I won't tell you how it ends, but consider this: what would it be like to confront your worst self?
![]() ('The Isotope Men' by Nat Schachner)
Compare to the cosmic express from the 1930 short story of that name by Jack Williamson, the emergency treatment tank from Agent of Vega (1949) by James Schmitz and the way station materializer from Way Station (1963) by Clifford Simak. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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