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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A pleasant science fiction story of the "Gee, whiz" genre, with more scientific content than most. (The inventor of this tale is apparently no relation to the Futurama character.)Tevis was the author of the novel _The Man Who Fell to Earth_.
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The Big Bounce - Walter S. Tevis
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Title: The Big Bounce
Author: Walter S. Tevis
Release Date: October 23, 2007 [eBook #23153]
Language: English
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THE BIG BOUNCE
By WALTER S. TEVIS
Seeing it in action, anybody would quaver in alarm: What
hath Farnsworth overwrought?
Illustrated by JOHNSON
LET me show you something," Farnsworth said. He set his near-empty drink—a Bacardi martini—on the mantel and waddled out of the room toward the basement.
I sat in my big leather chair, feeling very peaceful with the world, watching the fire. Whatever Farnsworth would have to show to-night would be far more entertaining than watching T.V.—my custom on other evenings. Farnsworth, with his four labs in the house and his very tricky mind, never failed to provide my best night of the week.
When he returned, after a moment, he had with him a small box, about three inches square. He held this carefully in one hand and stood by the fireplace dramatically—or as dramatically as a very small, very fat man with pink cheeks can stand by a fireplace of the sort that seems to demand a big man with tweeds, pipe and, perhaps, a saber wound.
Anyway, he held the box dramatically and he said, Last week, I was playing around in the chem lab, trying to make a new kind of rubber eraser. Did quite well with the other drafting equipment, you know, especially the dimensional curve and the photosensitive ink. Well, I approached the job by trying for a material that would absorb graphite without abrading paper.
I was a little disappointed with this; it