Seeds of Life
by John Taine
This is the story of the alcoholic and unsuccessful Nils Bork, who was elevated by a scientific chance to the divine heights of scientific genius and sacrifice. And this is the story of what happens to the golden dream of a marriage that will be crowned with free, unlimited energy and, according to her, majestic offspring. This amazing prophetic novel, which some say inspired Algernon (on which the charlie movie is based), is the best Hugo Gernsback novel ever published in Amazing Stories. It features characters so mature that their likes were never seen again until the postwar SF of the 1950s, and in its rise and fall, it's a theme that predetermines what Flowers is to Algernon and takes it to the level of operatic tragedy to avoid matching the best "Fallen Man." It's a great fairy tale that every science fiction lover wants to be around. It's totally off-road science fiction – and therefore highly recommended. '-Galaxy Science Fiction
