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MICROCOSMIC GOD: a Classic SF short story, that includes an evil banker!!!!

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Microcosmic God
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"Microcosmic God"
Author Theodore Sturgeon
Country USA
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction
Published in Astounding Science Fiction
Publication type Periodical
Media type Magazine
Publication date 1941

"Microcosmic God" is a science fiction novelette by Theodore Sturgeon. Originally published in April 1941 in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction, it was recognized as one of the best science fiction stories of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1970, and was named as one of the best science fiction stories in polls by Analog Science Fiction and Fact (the renamed Astounding) in 1971[1] and Locus in 1999.[2] In 1976, it was also published as a comic version (drawn by Adolfo Buylla) in issue 3 of Starstream: Adventures in Science Fiction, a comic anthology in four issues by Gold Key Comics[3].

[edit] Plot summary

A highly secretive and reclusive biochemist named Kidder produces inventions that transform human life, spanning every aspect of science and engineering. Unbeknownst to anyone, Kidder has developed a synthetic life form, which he calls "neoterics." These creatures are very short-lived, which allowed Kidder to 'evolve' them quickly into highly intelligent lifeforms who fear Kidder and worship him like a god. Kidder can control his neoterics' environment, and thus force them into developing technology far beyond that of humans—this is the source of all the inventions he has released.

Kidder's banker takes over the island on which he has built his laboratory, hoping to use a neoteric design for a new source of power to take over the world. When the banker strikes to kill Kidder and the workers who had assisted in building the power plant, Kidder asks the neoterics to throw up an impenetrable force field.

The story ends years later. It is unknown whether or not Kidder is still alive under the shield, and certain that the neoterics have continued to develop technology far in excess of anything controlled by man. The reader is left to suppose that, if the neoterics were to decide to take the Earth, nothing would stop them.

(Some links to the story.....I read it again every so often):

READ IT

(the opening sentences)

Here is a story about a man who had too much power, and a man who
took too much, but don't worry; I'm not going political on you. The
man who had the power was named James Kidder and the other was
his banker......

http://virgil.gr/1/MicroCosmicGod.pdf

http://www.scribd.com/doc/8290/Sturgeon-Theodore-Microcosmic-God-txt