"The Ultimate Catalyst"
| Title | "The Ultimate Catalyst" |
| Year for Search | 1939 |
| Authors | Bell, Eric Temple(1883-1960) |
| Secondary Title | Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) |
| Volume / Edition | 13.3 |
| Pagination | 13-29 |
| Date Published | June 1939 |
| Keywords | Male 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 | PSt |
| 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. |
