BROTHERS OF FATE Manly Wade Wellman Karlas Jann lived the life of a guinea pig until his brain reached the highest degree of intelligence ever derived in a man! But the great experiment back-fired when the super-brain became a ruthless tyrant! KARLAS JANN, self-proclaimed Master of the World, gazed in manifest ennui at the three old scientists who faced him across the desk in his office. He was spare, red-haired, stern-faced, and his eyes held far too much wisdom.
“You’ve been sent to plead with me,” he summed up. “You invoke my ‘gratitude’ to you, my ‘duty’ as to parents and benefactors.” They cringed before his glare. “What do I owe you? It chanced that I was born a twin. You professors, having gained control of my brother and me, thought to experiment with diverse environments for identical creatures. My brother, Paul, was left to a normal life; I was super-schooled, superstimulated, super-groomed mentally and spiritually. I surpassed my brother, and you forthwith decreed that I should surpass the race. Education, artificial changes by medicine and surgery, hypnosis, diet—” He broke off to laugh fiercely. “Quite a guinea pig I’ve been, eh? A guinea pig that’s become a world-swallowing dragon! And it’s your fault, not mine.”
“We admit our error,” tremblingly ventured one of the three doctors. “Yet it must be understood that—”
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