"The Ultimate Catalyst"

Title"The Ultimate Catalyst"
Year for Search1939
AuthorsBell, Eric Temple(1883-1960)
Secondary TitleThrilling Wonder Stories (New York)
Volume / Edition 13.3
Pagination13-29
Date PublishedJune 1939
KeywordsMale author, Scottish author, US author
Annotation

The background to the story is a future world that has exiled the last dictator and all his followers to Amazonia, thus creating a dystopia, where a scientist develops an elaborate technique for killing him.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Startling Stories 20.2 (November 1949): 84-97; and in Great Science Fiction By Scientists. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: Collier Books, 1962), 35-59 with an editor's note on 34.

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

The author (1883-1960) was born in Scotland and was a Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology.

Full Text

1939 Bell, Eric Temple (1883-1960). “The Ultimate Catalyst.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 13.3 (June 1939): 13-29. Rpt. in Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) 20.2 (November 1949): 84-97; and in Great Science Fiction By Scientists. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: Collier Books, 1962), 35-59 with an editor’s note on 34. PSt

The background to the story is a future world that has exiled the last dictator and all his followers to Amazonia, thus creating a dystopia, where a scientist develops an elaborate technique for killing him. The author was born in Scotland and was a Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology.