“The Boy With Five Fingers”
| Title | “The Boy With Five Fingers” |
| Year for Search | 1953 |
| Authors | Gunn, James [Edwin](1923-2020) |
| Secondary Title | Startling Stories |
| Volume / Edition | 28.3 |
| Pagination | 58-60 |
| Date Published | January 1953 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Short story set in a future where the people are all mutants brought about by past atomic wars told from the perspective of a boy who is normal by past standards, sees his future world as clearly better than the past, and is glad that their Basic Rule is that everyone has the right to be different. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 271-74. |
| Illustration | llus. Alex[ander A.] Schomburg (1905-98) |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1923-2020) |
| Full Text | 1953 Gunn, James [Edwin] (1923-2020). “The Boy With Five Fingers.” Illus. Alex[ander A.] Schomburg (1905-98). Startling Stories 28.3 (January 1953): 58-60. Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 271-74. PSt Short story set in a future where the people are all mutants brought about by past atomic wars told from the perspective of a boy who is normal by past standards, sees his future world as clearly better than the past, and is glad that their Basic Rule is that everyone has the right to be different. |
