Anne Walker 22 min read

A special-forces squad drops into enemy territory linked mind-to-mind, sharing one soldier's every sense in the dark.

Anne Walker's 1959 story sends its narrator and his mates on a sabotage mission via glider chute, wired together by an inter-cortical encephalograph that lets them feel a comrade's touch, wind, and strange elation as he mines a viaduct. Tense, sensory military SF built on an inventive telepathic-warfare premise and a sharp final proportion. Read it for gripping, idea-driven combat fiction with a memorable twist of perspective.

In its time

Published in 1959, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

22 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Bernklau