Hampdenshire Wonder

In this pioneering science-fictional treatment of superhuman intelligence, a mutant wonder child's insights prove devastating.Science fiction luminary Ted Chiang introducesA The Hampdenshire Wonder, one of the genre's first treatments of superhuman intelligence. Victor Stott is a large-headed a supernormala mutated in the womb by his parents' desire to have a child born without habits. Known as a the Wonder,a Victor surveys humankind's science, philosophy, history, literature, religiona "e;the best that has been thought and saida "e;and dismisses it brutally: a So elementary... inchoate... a disjunctive patchwork.a Rejecting a the interposing and utterly false concepts of space and time,a the Wonder claims that life itself is merely a a disease of the ether.a Unable to deal with the child's disenchanting insights, his adult interlocutors seek to silence him... perhaps permanently.