A journalist reading Hegel on a train glances at a baby with an enormous head and dismisses it as a freak. The child is Victor Stott, son of the famous bowler Ginger Stott, and he proves to possess an intellect far beyond any adult’s. The narrator pieces together his strange birth, his silent passage through Henry Challis’s library, and the alarm he causes among pastors, masters and examiners.
An early British novel of the superman child, also known as The Hampdenshire Wonder, and a quiet influence on later science fiction. Download the free EPUB.