Vacation stories
Subtitle: five science fiction tales
By: Santiago Ramón y Cajal ; translated from the Spanish by Laura Otis.
Contributors: Otis, Laura, 1961-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Science fiction, Spanish
Work titles: Cuentos de vacaciones.
Description: "A world-famous neurobiologist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal won the Nobel Prize for his scientific research in 1906. The previous year, he published these stories: five ingenious tales that take a microscopic look at the nature, allure, and danger of scientific curiosity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-245).
Table of contents: title: For a secret offense, secret revenge; title: The fabricator of honor; title: The accursed house; title: The corrected pessimist; title: The natural man and the artificial man.