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The Hampdenshire Wonder

The Hampdenshire Wonder

Beresford, J. D.
Chiang, Ted

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Series: Mit Press / Radium Age

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ISBN10: 0262551411
ISBN13: 9780262551410
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Mar 4 2025
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
In this pioneering science-fictional treatment of superhuman intelligence, a mutant wonder child's insights prove devastating.

Science fiction luminary Ted Chiang introduces The Hampdenshire Wonder, one of the genre's first treatments of superhuman intelligence. Victor Stott is a large-headed supernormal mutated in the womb by his parents' desire to have a child born without habits. Known as the Wonder, Victor surveys humankind's science, philosophy, history, literature, religion--the best that has been thought and said--and dismisses it brutally: So elementary . . . inchoate . . . a disjunctive patchwork. Rejecting the interposing and utterly false concepts of space and time, the Wonder claims that life itself is merely a disease of the ether. Unable to deal with the child's disenchanting insights, his adult interlocutors seek to silence him . . . perhaps permanently.

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