Anton's last dream by Edwin Baird
"Anton's last dream by Edwin Baird" is a science fiction short story written in the early 20th century. It explores a chemist’s triumphant invention of invisibility and the darker human currents it uncovers—jealousy, betrayal, and vengeance. Anton Slezak, a wealthy, celebrated chemist who believes any dream can be made real, secretly perfects an invisible dye and renders himself unseen. Testing his success, he follows a coded knock to a hotel room and
witnesses his young wife Zora in a passionate rendezvous with his nephew Robin. Speaking from invisibility, he reveals his presence, blocks their escape, and shoots them both, then calmly waits and turns the gun on himself as others break in. The story fuses scientific wonder with a stark, fatal end, showing how a visionary experiment becomes the instrument of tragic retribution. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Baird, Edwin, 1886-1957 |
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| Illustrator | Brundage, Margaret, 1900-1976 |
| Title | Anton's last dream |
| Original Publication | Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937. |
| Series Title | Produced from Weird Tales May 1937. |
| Credits | Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 84.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Chemists -- Fiction |
| Subject | Experiments -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 76128 |
| Release Date | May 20, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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