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Stroke of Genius

By Randall Garrett

(3.5 stars) • 10 reviews

In a world of scientific marvels, a jealous engineer's ambition leads him down a path of betrayal and murder, only to be exposed by the very technology he sought to control.

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2022-03-08
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Summary

"Stroke of Genius" by Randall Garrett is a science fiction story centered around innovation and hidden treachery. The story follows Lewis Crayley, a talented engineer overcome by envy, as he schemes against Berin Klythe, the successful director of a space engineering firm. Powered by ambition and resentment, Crayley crafts a deadly plot to eliminate Klythe during a dangerous experiment involving a groundbreaking energy generator. Crayley sabotages the engineering process, resulting in a fatal accident during a public demonstration, seemingly securing his own rise to power. However, his deception unravels when the investigation uses the very recordings he manipulated against him, exposing his guilt as his subconscious mind betrays his carefully constructed persona.

About the Author

Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.

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