John Berryman 55 min read

The Psi Lodge has ways of applying pressure, but the peculiar talent this gambler shows at a stud table is one even they've never heard of.

John Berryman's 1961 story (as Walter Bupp) sits down at a seven-handed game of cagey compulsive gamblers, where an unheard-of psychic ability is about to surface. Clever, atmospheric psi-powered SF with a card-sharp setup. Read it for a sharp golden-age tale that deals a brand-new kind of power into an old game.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Douglas