SOLVED. Science Fiction, double book, maybe spoilers [s]

[GracieKat]

The book I'm looking for i believe is science fiction and it was a book where on one side is one book, you flip it upside down on the other side and it's a whole other book. The one side of the book had a story called 'The, Widget, The Woget and the Boffin (I'm pretty sure that was the name) but it's the other book I'm ingested in.

The other book was about a science experiment where they brought a kid from Neanderthal times and they had a teacher come in to teach him. They got really close but the boy was kept in just one room in the building. The people in charge decide to end the project because they're afraid of what will happen when the kid grows up into adulthood. I think they want to kill him. The teacher is mad but she can't do anything to stop it so she sends herself and the boy back into the past and i think that's the end.

I think it may be Asimov but nothing i saw matched. Thanks in advance!

Oh yeah, i read it when i was in my early trend so about, 1992, 1993 but i had the feeling the book was older. The cover had a sterile looking room and the small figure of a boy (i think). If it helps the book on the other side had a boy at a desk with an alien looking thing looking over his shoulder.

[Sue]

The second story is The Ugly Little Boy. It started as a novella by Asimov, and was later expanded into a novel with Robert Silverberg.
The novella finished with the woman pulling the cord to send herself and the boy into the past; but I believe the book continued past this-to where they actually arrived, and what happened after.

[GracieKat]

Awesome! Thank you!

[Isabel (kittiwake)]

According to wiipedia, there was a book in the Tor Doubles series with The Ugly Little Boy and The Widget, the Wadget, and Boff by Theodore Sturgeon. It's number 9 on the list and shows the ISBN as 0-8125-5966-5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Dou...

[GracieKat]

Isabel (kittiwake) wrote: "According to wiipedia, there was a book in the Tor Doubles series with The Ugly Little Boy and The Widget, the Wadget, and Boff Theodore Sturgeon. It's number 9 on the list and shows the ISBN as 0-..."

Thanks! That must be the one i read. I'll have to look for that our her each desperately because i never read the Widget one bit out looked interesting to me.

[Peter]

I remember they did The Ugly Little Boy as an episode of some anthology show or other, back in the 80's or 90's. They did The Rocking Horse Winner, too. Powerful stuff, both in text and live-action.

[GracieKat]

Peter wrote: "I remember they did The Ugly Little Boy as an episode of some anthology show or other, back in the 80's or 90's. They did The Rocking Horse Winner, too. Powerful stuff, both in text and live-action."

I remember reading The Rocking House Winner a long time ago and it was so sad. I dint know if i could handle a live-action of it. The feels might get me, lol. I'd love to see The Ugly Little Boy though. I don't ferment too many of the smaller details but i really liked the end, when she decided to go with him.

[Bargle]

Peter wrote: "I remember they did The Ugly Little Boy as an episode of some anthology show or other, back in the 80's or 90's. They did The Rocking Horse Winner, too. Powerful stuff, both in text and live-action."

Yes, it was also shown as an anthology movie in the US on cable under the name "Tales Dark and Dangerous".
It also included an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story 'Silver Blaze'.

[Kris]

Here's the link - The Ugly Little Boy and The Widget , The Wadget , and Boff by Isaac Asimov.

[GracieKat]

Thank you!