Bryce Walton 26 min read

A man wakes into searching loneliness and a soft voice calling him 'Adam', while his makers whisper about the danger he poses.

Bryce Walton's 1947 story surfaces its amnesiac protagonist into a world of watchful voices, spy-circuits, and a woman named Fran, in a mysterious post-catastrophe tale of a newly-made man. Atmospheric, intriguing space opera that withholds its answers. Read it for moody golden-age SF that opens inside the mind of a man being born into a plot.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hardison