title: Prospero's Children
author:  Jan Siegel 
description: Fern and Will, the children of a feckless art dealer, find themselves sharing the remote farmhouse he has inherited with his current, and sinister, mistress. Something snuffles outside; a stone in the garden, which bears an odd resemblance to a passing tramp, moves in the night; a wolfish dog befriends them. Dreams and sleepwalking and the most remarkable videotape ever watched provide 16-year-old Fern with evidence that the world is not the controllable, rational place she thought it was--and that her own future is to be altogether more remarkable, and full of pain and wisdom, than she has expected.
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   _Worlds of IF_
  
  September 1968
  
  Vol. 18, No. 9
  
  Issue 130
  
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  June 2016
  
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   **I**
  
   **M** ac Hoerwitz came back to awareness as the screen went blank, and he
  absently flicked the switch and reset the sheet-scanner. He had not really
  watched the last act. At least, he didn’t think he had. He knew it so
  perfectly that there was no way to be certain whether Prospero’s closing words
  were really still in his ears or that it was simply memory from earlier times.
  
  Two things had been competing with The Tempest for his attention. One was the
  pain where his left index fingernail had formerly been, and the other was a
  half-serious search through his memory to dec