Identifiera Anthology of Sci Fi-berättelser

Den första historien är De första männen av Howard Fast.

Fast's story is about how a group of scientists and educators, through a controlled environment, succeed in raising naturally gifted children into "man-plus"—people who possess comparatively super-human abilities. They possess unparalleled understanding of all technical subjects such as math, physics and unlock natural telepathy. They also excel at physical endeavors, such as sports and break numerous physical records.

Their controlled environment, an isolated compound in California comprising 8,000 acres (32 km²), is a government sponsored facility granted for the raising of the children. The scientists were given fifteen years, later extended by three more years and a few weeks, to experimentally raise the children. By a very early age, the children surpass their teachers' knowledge.

Inte säker på vilken antologi denna och den andra berättelsen båda visade sig i; Jag känner inte igen den andra, så det måste ha varit en annan antologi!

I berättelsen finns en scen där Kidder, forskaren som skapade neoteriken, springer mot sitt hus på den ena änden av ön där han bodde medan den andra änden bombas. Han slutar senare försvara sig och neoteriken på ett mycket intressant sätt.

Om det här är historien, så kom det fram i följande noveller och kanske en av dessa är den du söker: (från ISFDB)

• Mikrokosmisk Gud, Volym II: Theodore Sturgeons fullständiga berättelser, (Dec 1995, Theodore Sturgeon, publ. Nordatlantiska böcker, 1-55643-213-5, $ 25,00, xxxiii + 372pp, hc, coll) Jacek Yerka - [VERIFIED]

• Mikrokosmisk Gud (Dec 1998, Theodore Sturgeon, publ. Nordatlantiska böcker, 1-55643-301-8, $ 18.95, xxxiii + 372pp, tp, coll) Omslag: Jacek Yerka

• Mikrokosmisk Gud: Volym II: Theodore Sturgeons fullständiga berättelser, (nov 2010, Theodore Sturgeon, publ. Nordatlantiska böcker, 978-1-55643-659-8, $ 35.00, 408pp, hc, coll)

• Mikrokosmisk Gud, (datum okänd, Theodore Sturgeon, publ. Nordatlantiska böcker, 1-55643-301-8, $ 18.95, xxxiii + 372pp, tp, coll) Omslag: Jacek Yerka - [VERIFIED]

Den mikrokosmiska guden, 1975, ed. Sam Moscowitz, publ. Manor Books, # 12328, $ 1,25, 193pp, pb, anth) Omslag: Bruce Pennington - [VERIFIED]

• Mikrokosmiska gud och andra berättelser från moderna mästerverk av science fiction, (1968, ed. Sam Moskowitz, publ. Macfadden-Bartell, # 60-335, $ 0,60, 142pp, pb, anth) - [VERIFIERAD]

Från Wikipedia-artikeln:

Mikrokosmisk Gud

!A highly secretive and reclusive biochemist named Kidder produces inventions that transform human life, spanning every aspect of science and engineering. Unbeknownst 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 takes over the island on which he 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.