Cattivo by Alan Nelson

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A gifted performer turns his astonishing hands into tools for theft, but every crime leaves him more frightened of what he carries at the ends of his arms. When a fortune in emeralds and murder enters the bargain, one man discovers too late that greed can develop a life of its own. Cattivo by Alan Nelson. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

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James Alan Nelson was born in December 1911 in Las Cruces, New Mexico Territory about a month before New Mexico became a state.

He wrote 11 short sci-fi stories that were published from 1948 to 1955 and one episode of the TV series Tales of Tomorrow which aired in 1952.

First published on page 120 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1951 , Cattivo by Alan Nelson…

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