D. Allen Morrissey 49 min read

A man wakes in a strange curved room, a voice insisting his name is David Corbin, and every instinct screaming that it isn't.

D. Allen Morrissey's 1952 story opens on disorientation and dread as its amnesiac protagonist rejects the identity a machine assigns him. Tense, mysterious space opera with a time-travel undercurrent. Read it for a gripping golden-age tale that begins inside a mind fighting to know who and when it is.

In its time

Published in 1952, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Jay Scott Pike