L Sprague de Camp's "The Merman" (short story, humor): A man becomes fish!
Vernon Brock, an aquarium researcher, has invented a gas: inhaled by an air-breather, it makes the lungs behave as gills! He's planning to try it on an alligator, but accidentally inhales it himself. Unable to breath air anymore, driven by a certain compulsion, he gets in an aquarium tank with "harmless" sharks - happily breathing water.
It's a somewhat funny story of the man's predicament...
Rating: B.
Among the stories from Astounding/Analog issues edited by John Campbell.
Related: Stories of L Sprague de Camp.
It's a somewhat funny story of the man's predicament...
Notes.
- "Merman" is the male version of "mermaid", the way man in tank is jokingly referred to once or twice in the story.
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First published: Astounding, December 1938.Rating: B.
Among the stories from Astounding/Analog issues edited by John Campbell.
Related: Stories of L Sprague de Camp.
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