A group of explorers of Africa stumble upon a strange two-headed toad, and that leads them to meet an endocrinologist Dr. Hascombe captured by an African tribe, who saves himself by using "magical" powers of modern biology.[5][6][7]
Critical evaluation
Patrick Parrinder considers the story as an allegory to the servile place of science within a capitalist political world.[8]
^Julian Huxley, The Tissue-Culture King: A Biological Fantasy , Cornhill Magazine vol. 60 (New Series), #358, April 1926, pp. 422-458 (Magazine table of contents)
^Huxley, Julian (August 1927). "The Tissue-Culture King". Amazing Stories. Well, we had discovered that metal was relatively impervious to the telepathic effect, and had prepared for ourselves a sort of tin pulpit, behind which we could stand while conducting experiments. This, combined with caps of metal foil, enormously reduced the effects on ourselves.
^Patrick Parrinder, Scientist in Science Fiction: Enlightenment and After, in: Science Fiction Roots And Branches: Contemporary Critical Approaches, pp. 72-23
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