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Microcosmic God
"Microcosmic God" is a science fiction novelette by Theodore Sturgeon. Originally published in April 1941 in the magazine ''Astounding Science Fiction'', it was recognized as one of the best science fiction stories of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1970, and was named as one of the best science fiction stories in polls by ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' (the renamed ''Astounding'') in 1971〔 and ''Locus'' in 1999.〔 In 1976, it was also published as a comic version (drawn by Adolfo Buylla) in issue 3 of ''Starstream: Adventures in Science Fiction'', a comic anthology in four issues by Gold Key Comics.〔(STARSTREAM #3 )〕
==Plot summary==
A highly secretive and reclusive biochemist named Kidder produces inventions that transform human life, spanning every aspect of science and engineering. Unknown to anyone, Kidder has developed a synthetic life form, which he calls "Neoterics." These creatures live at a greatly accelerated rate, and therefore have a very short lifespan and produce many generations over a short period of time. This allows Kidder, by presenting them with a frequently changing environment, to "evolve" them quickly into highly intelligent lifeforms who fear Kidder and worship him like a god. Kidder can control his Neoterics' environment, and thus force them into developing technology far beyond that of humans. While earlier inventions had been his own, Kidder created the Neoterics with the intention that they would become the source of many newer and greater inventions which he could claim as his own.
Kidder's banker, Conant, who has grown immensely rich on the inventions passed on by Kidder, takes over the island on which Kidder has built his laboratory, hoping to use a Neoteric design for a new source of power to take over the world. When the banker strikes to kill Kidder and the workers who had assisted in building the power plant, Kidder asks the Neoterics to throw up an impenetrable force field.
The story ends years later. It is unknown whether or not Kidder is still alive under the shield, and certain that the Neoterics have continued to develop technology far in excess of anything controlled by humans. The reader is left to suppose that, if the Neoterics were to decide to take the Earth, nothing would stop them.
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