# Short Science Fiction — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Short Science Fiction by Noel Loomis.

- [Electron Eat Electron](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/chapters/electron-eat-electron.md): President Jeffrey Wadsworth, a sixteen-year-old Superior Mutant, prepares to fight an electronic war against the Hunyas, led by President Forgacs. Despite the skepticism of his chief of staff, Supreme General Hoshawk, Wa
- [Parking, Unlimited](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/chapters/parking-unlimited.md): Slim Coleman convinces the narrator to invest $300 in a parking garage scheme. Using a device that shrinks cars to six inches, they pack thousands of cars into a small basement. The business booms, but suspicion grows, a
- [The Bryd](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/chapters/the-bryd.md): The Bryd, an ancient energy being, awakens inside the mind of Dale Stevenson, a physicist in charge of a sun-station orbiting Earth. It discovers that Dale, under the influence of a foreign agent's psyche-control, is abo
- [Remember the 4th!](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/chapters/remember-the-4th.md): Doc and Slim, private investigators, are behind on rent and struggling. They use the Brain-Finder, a device that can observe past events, to gather evidence for a divorce case. After trailing Mrs. Ellingbery and finding 
- [The Mischievous Typesetter](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/chapters/the-mischievous-typesetter.md): High-Pockets Jones, a barnstorming linotype operator with a theory of 'personal electricity,' is sentenced by a judge (a former proofreader) to work on a troublesome linotype, No. 7, at the Daily News. Despite the machin
- [The Wealth of Echindul](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/chapters/the-wealth-of-echindul.md): Grant Russell emerges from the Great Sea-Swamp of Venus after a perilous six-week journey, having discovered a nest of valuable telepathic echindul stones. He devises a clever plan to hide the stones by feeding them to a
- [You Too Can Be a Millionaire](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/chapters/you-too-can-be-a-millionaire.md): Mark Renner, deeply in debt to the Central Audit Bureau's point system, flees from Conley and hides in a jewelry store. He encounters an old lady who tricks him into signing a release slip for 35,000 points. Later, he me
- [Nine Men in Time](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/chapters/nine-men-in-time.md): In 1983, J.J. Shane, manager of the Imperial Printing Company, faces a crisis when receivers threaten to close the plant unless business improves within three months. Desperate, he hires Dr. Hudson, a production engineer
- [Day's Work](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/short_science_fiction_2_se/chapters/day-s-work.md): Two gods, Mogar and Dalen, argue over Dalen's proposal to create a new species of biped with opposed thumbs. Mogar opposes the idea, but Dalen stands firm, and after a tense standoff, Mogar reluctantly allows the experim

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