Project Gutenberg 2021-08-02 Public domain in the USA. 117 Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney) 1915 1979 Marks, Winston Kinney The Incredible Life-Form Produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy October 1954 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Incredible Life-Form" by Winston K. Marks is a science fiction novella written in the early 1950s. The story explores the concept of life and self-awareness through the fictional creation of a unique life-form by a sentient diamond named Prime on the planet Earth. The narrative serves as a thought experiment on the nature of existence, egotism, and the responsibilities that come with creation. The plot revolves around Tone Seng Froot, an investigator who observes Prime's progression in creating animal life and ultimately self-aware humans. Initially amused by Prime's ambitions, Froot soon finds the ramifications of these creations dire, as humans possess an insatiable drive for self-preservation that leads to their own destruction through nuclear warfare. Prime, seeking vengeance for being worshipped and then abandoned by his creations, ultimately decides to destroy the last human but is manipulated by her pleas for life. The story culminates in a startling realization about the complexities of creator and creation, ultimately questioning the ethics and unintended consequences of playing god with life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 62.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Science fiction Short stories Life -- Fiction Diamonds -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 49376 2025-06-26T07:07:58.764128 text/html 25609 2024-10-18T15:19:05 text/html 440401 2025-06-26T07:08:00.587141 application/epub+zip 439250 2025-06-26T07:07:59.267128 application/epub+zip 86082 2025-06-26T07:07:58.967121 application/epub+zip 474976 2025-06-26T07:08:01.723149 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 467360 2025-06-26T07:08:00.362122 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 114454 2022-09-29T17:15:03.895985 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 43003 2025-06-26T07:07:58.672129 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 23192 2024-10-18T15:19:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16848 2025-06-26T07:08:01.838123 application/rdf+xml 25905 2025-06-26T07:07:59.110123 image/jpeg 4265 2025-06-26T07:07:59.038114 image/jpeg 1101733 2025-06-26T07:07:58.781155 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog