Nightfall: The Fatal Eggs

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Fatal Eggs

This is based on a novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, probably better known for The Master and Margarita. In it, a Soviet scientist stumbles over a ray that makes living tissue grow nightmarishly fast. He plans to test it very carefully but alas, the State has need for his device and they rush it into service. Then it gets worse.

As it happens, I encountered this story before in this anthology



in a memorable context. In such matters the official end of things takes hours and since I strongly suspected something was very wrong, I packed a book in case it turned out it was the worst case scenario. This was the book.

Comments

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Not as unfortunate as your context, but very unfortunate typography for the editor's name for those of us who read both alphabets.

[(Anonymous)]

At least it's not quite as bad as some other examples. I almost didn't get a headache trying to parse it. (Literally, usually I get headaches similar to when you stare at bright blinking colors quickly alternating for too long).