Scientists and inventors have made enormous strides for-and in many ways, against-humanity, for they have discovered and invented powerful destructive materials-in that way sometimes courting their own destruction. So many "impossible" things have been done, why is it not possible that the venture into the realms of the infinite may sometime prove fruitful-that some day life may be implanted in unorganized matter? "The Malignant Entity" is the story of such a venture-carried to a dreadful success.