A review by michaeljmccann
The Fourth R by George O. Smith

5.0

I came to love this novel in the 1968 edition entitled "The Brain Machine." A science fiction Bildungsroman in which little Jimmy Holden, a boy genius thanks to a machine invented by his late parents, learns about life and human nature the hard way: by knocking his nose against it. I re-read this novel every few years just for the sheer pleasure of it.