"Geoffrey A. Landis - Turnover" - читать интересную книгу автора (Landis Geoffrey A)

proud, she reflected. She had verified beyond any possible scientific objections a theory that had been
hithertofore only a conjec-ture.
With the help of her beautiful but scatterbrained assis-tant, of course.

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About the author:
Geoff Landis is characteristically a hard SF writer, widely published in the magazines and often seen on
award nomina-tion ballots, and that's where this story is coming from. It appeared in Interzone, where a
significant amount of the best humorous SF is published these days. One of the traditional hallmarks of
satire is the world turned upside down, a clever way to expose the absurdity of conventional behavior,
and in this case some clunky and old fashioned SF storytelling. The third word in the story is a suspicious
intrusion from conven-tional fantasy and by the end of the first sentence we know we are in the world of
deadpan. This story goes to show that a heavy hand sometimes delivers the strongest blow.