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Title: When I Grow Up

Author: Richard E. Lowe

Release Date: May 24, 2009 [EBook #28953]

Language: English

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_A good many science fiction writers seem determined to depict
children as little monsters. Not all children perhaps, and not with
completely merciless regularity. But often enough to make us
shudder. Only Richard Lowe remains independent. The youngster of
this story isn't a child monster at all. He's just--a "destructor."
And that in itself is somehow unimaginably terrifying!_

when
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_by ... Richard E. Lowe_

The two professors couldn't agree on the fundamentals of
child behavior. But that was before they met little Herbux!

The University sprawled casually, unashamed of its disordered ranks,
over a hundred thousand acres of grassy, rolling countryside. It was the
year A.D. 3896, and the vast assemblage of schools and colleges and
laboratories had been growing on this site for more than two thousand
years.

It had survived political and industrial revolutions, local
insurrections, global, inter-terrestrial and nuclear wars, and it had
become the acknowledged center of learning for the entire known
universe.

No subject was too small to escape attention at the University. None was
too large to be attacked by the fearless, probing fingers of curiosity,
or to in any way over-awe students and teachers in this great
institution of learning.

No book was ever closed in the University and no clue, however tiny, was
discarded as useless in the ceaseless search for knowledge which was the
University's prime and overriding goal.

For no matter how fast and far the spaceships might fly, or what strange
creatures might be brought back across the great curve of the universe
or how deeply the past was resurrected or the future probed, of one
thing only was the University quite sure--_man did not know enough_.

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