Call Me Wizard by Evelyn E Smith

Call Me Wizard by Evelyn E Smith

A clever and incisive mid-century science fiction story in which technology, perception, and reputation blur into something resembling magic.

In Call Me Wizard, Evelyn E. Smith explores the uneasy boundary between scientific understanding and the appearance of sorcery. When advanced knowledge is introduced into a society unprepared to interpret it, admiration quickly shifts into misunderstanding. What one culture calls science, another may regard as enchantment-and the consequences of that confusion prove both revealing and disruptive.

With her characteristic restraint and wit, Smith uses speculative premise to examine authority, expectation, and the fragile social structures that determine who is believed and why. Compact yet pointed, the story reflects her distinctive contribution to Golden Age science fiction: intelligent, ironic, and attentive to the human dynamics beneath technological change.

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Evelyn E. Smith (January 1, 1927-January 1, 2000) was an American author of Science Fiction. During the 50's her works appeared regularly in magazines such as Galaxy and Fantastic Universe. In the 80's she wrote a number of novels featuring the character Miss Melville about a middle-aged assassin. She also wrote as Delphine C. Lyons and Christopher Grimm.

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ISBN 13	9781515450092
ISBN 10	1515450090
Title	Call Me Wizard
Author	Evelyn E Smith
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Positronic Publishing
Year published	2021-02-28
Number of pages	80
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