I, Gardener by Allen Kim Lang — Read

_Can the Great First Law fall? / Could the great Dr. Asim -- sorry, / Ozoneff -- have been wrong? _

I had flown to Boston to sign Doctor Axel Ozoneff to a contract with my new fall television show, "Point of View. " I'd already recruited a cadre of intellectual fuglemen, but I needed Dr. Ozoneff as my program's sergeant-major, as the catalyst who'd spark the seethings of his colleagues into the imaginative pyrotechnics that attract sponsors and build the big Trendex. Associate Professor of Cryptochemistry at the Medical School, author of thirty-three books (maybe more: it had been a week since I last counted), a writer whose byline appeared on the Contents page of a dozen magazines and journals regularly as their copyright notice, and a poet of considerable skill, Dr. Ozoneff was besides something of a television personality. Who but he could have invented an s-f vignette, live, on-camera, and have it subsequently published in a major magazine and three anthologies?