Shah Guido G.

Shah Guido G. is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the November 1951 issue of "Marvel" and reprinted in the 1975 collection "Buy Jupiter and Other Stories", where Asimov explains his love of puns. It is an example of a shaggy dog story, as indicated by the title ("Shahgui Dog").

Shah Guido G. is the nickname of Guido Garshthavastra, the hereditary Secretary-General of the United Nations ("Sekjen"), a tyrant who rules the Earth from a levitating island called Atlantis. Philo Plat is an aristocrat who secretly plots Shah Guido G.'s downfall. When he learns that the stations that power the Sky-Island's anti-gravitational beams are close to critical, Plat convinces Shah Guido G. to order in a division of Waves (female shock-troops whose name derives from the WAVES of the United States Navy) to put down a supposed rebellion by the technicians. As Plat suspected, the weight of the Waves' cruisers is sufficient to overload the Sky-Island's power generators, causing it to plummet to the ground; once again, Atlantis sinks beneath the Waves.