“Mr. Spaceship” January 1953

In order to defeat an enemy whose living, intelligent mines seem impossible to fight effectively,Terra implants a spaceship with the brain of an old professor. They think that the disembodied brain will have no consciousness; they are wrong. The professor thinks and consequently retains his human identity despite his inanimate embodiment. His hatred of war causes him to try an experiment. He will be like the god of a new world, peopled by Phil Kramer and his wife (separated) Delores and then their offspring. They will be divorced from the Terran customs and traditions that the professor so strongly feels are the root causes of conflict. The question is, is war a learned habit or an ingrained human instinct.