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Science Fiction · First published 1956; original Project Gutenberg EPUB · English

The Neurotic Rose

by Homer Nearing, Jr.

About this book

Professor Ransom has produced an extraordinary cross between a dog and a rose, but his creation has stopped eating. As he and his colleague MacTate investigate, a botanical experiment becomes entangled with animal psychology, an expensive breeding arrangement and a fiercely contested flower show.

Homer Nearing, Jr. turns scientific ingenuity and faculty rivalry into a comic chain of complications. This is the complete April 1956 story, preserving Kelly Freas’s original illustration and the final twist in Ransom’s attempt to qualify his entry.

Homer Nearing, Jr. Fantastic Universe, April 1956. Illustration: Kelly Freas. Original Project Gutenberg production credits and license retained.