T. L. Sherred 2 hr read

A steel-mill worker with the grandfather of all headaches finds a cure, and the cure gives him more power than any man could dream of.

T. L. Sherred's 1953 story opens amid the deafening din of a press line, its everyman narrator discovering that silencing his own pain unlocks a terrifying ability. Sharp, grounded psi-powered SF from the author of 'E for Effort.' Read it for a punchy golden-age tale about an ordinary man handed extraordinary, dangerous power.

In its time

Published in 1953, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

2 hr read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Paul Orban