"The Adaptive Ultimate" is a science fiction short story by American writer Stanley G. Weintraub
A woman on the verge of death is experimented on and regains her vitality and the power to adapt to any situation. Including increased intelligence, the ability to change her appearance , invulnerability and and a desire for power.
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The story was dramatized
on the radio program Escape March 26, 1949
Later that year
on the television program
Studio One episode called "
Kyra Zelas" (the
name of the
title character) aired
on September 12, 1949.
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And in 1957 became the movie She Devil