The Fourth "R"

Smith, George O.

ISBN 10: 0440134196 / ISBN 13: 9780440134190

Published by Dell Publishing Co. Inc., New York, 1979

About this Item

# 13419. "The Genius Machine" made its inventor's 5-year-old son a genius, but the child's parents were murdered for the secret of the machine - and the killer was none other than his guardian! Where could he find refuge? 224 pages. CONDITION: a bright, tight, square copy with light shelf-wear, a couple creases on the cover, and a previous owner's initials on the front "teaser" page - its interior otherwise uncompromised. This attractive copy is now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag.

Seller Inventory # SP1001

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fourth "R"
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440134196
• ISBN 13: 9780440134190
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: First Thus - First Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy

About this title

Synopsis

Dell Books, 1979. Mass market paperback. First published in 1959.

This science fiction novel follows a five-year-old boy named Jimmy Holden, who was given the equivalent of a college education by virtue of his parents' invention, an "Electromechanical Educator." One reviewer stated the book is "a surprisingly good story of the difficulties of the superboy in a world run by stupid adults."

About the Author

George Oliver Smith (1911 - 1981) (also known by the pseudonym Wesley Long) was an American science fiction author. Smith was an active contributor to Astounding Science Fiction during the Golden Age of Science Fiction in the 1940s. His collaboration with the magazine's editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. was interrupted when Campbell's first wife, Doņa, left him in 1949 and married Smith.