Jack Sharkey 54 min read

A Space Zoologist projects his mind into alien creatures across the galaxy, living hundreds of lives to keep his crewmates alive.

Jack Sharkey's 1961 story explains the science of 'Contact,' in which Jerry Norcriss inhabits new life-forms so that fragile human crews needn't risk trial-and-error on strange worlds. Inventive psi-powered space opera from Sharkey's clever Contact series. Read it for imaginative golden-age SF about experiencing alien worlds from the inside out.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

54 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

George Schelling