After making science-fiction history with his beloved and broadly influential tale A Martian Odyssey, Stanley G. Weinbaum turned his creative powers to a series of stories starring a mismatched pair of protagonists: legend-in-his-own-mind Professor Haskel van Manderpootz and dashing aristocrat Dixon Wells. In the engaging short story The Ideal, the two develop a device that allows the user to catch a fleeting glimpse of his or her ideal in any category—person, place or thing.
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