Project Gutenberg 2009-01-09 Public domain in the USA. 66 Porges, Arthur 1915 2006 Revenge Reading ease score: 74.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Revenge" by Arthur Porges is a science fiction novella written in the early 1960s. The narrative centers around a biochemist who devises a plan to eradicate the opium poppy, aiming to end the drug trade and combat addiction. The author explores themes of frustration with bureaucracy and society's shortcomings in tackling drug-related issues. The story follows a disillusioned biochemist who creates a virus specifically designed to kill the opium poppy, effectively obliterating the source of heroin and other narcotics. After presenting his revolutionary idea to government officials, he is met with ignorance and rejection. Feeling betrayed and scorned, the protagonist decides to release the virus himself, leading to the global extinction of the opium plant. However, he finds himself unrecognized and uncompensated for his work, prompting him to plot further revenge by creating viruses that will destroy yeast and tobacco, aiming to teach society a lesson about their indifference towards him and the drug crisis. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 42623 42624 2024-10-12T05:28:31.305960 2023-09-12T08:55:08.543871 text/html text/html 38881 2009-01-09T09:42:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 15778 2009-01-09T09:42:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 79046 2024-10-12T05:28:35.031925 application/epub+zip 77955 2024-10-12T05:28:32.922934 application/epub+zip 77955 2024-10-12T05:28:31.869939 application/epub+zip 137234 2024-10-12T05:28:36.640925 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 130544 2024-10-12T05:28:34.423930 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 112705 2022-09-13T04:41:40.927801 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 37090 36990 2024-10-12T05:28:31.072943 2023-09-12T08:55:08.398863 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 36991 2009-01-09T09:42:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14865 2009-01-09T09:42:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19552 2024-10-12T05:28:36.763914 application/rdf+xml 10076 2024-10-12T05:28:32.392932 image/jpeg 2654 2024-10-12T05:28:32.128933 image/jpeg 77793 2024-10-12T05:28:31.311947 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia