Jack Egan 9 min read

Eighty feet under black water, a man clings to his sanity, and hears, humming in his mind, the distant burble of other voices.

Jack Egan's 1961 story surfaces Cully into a drowned, eerie situation of golden sand and telepathic murmurs, building an atmospheric space-opera mystery. Tense, sensory golden-age SF. Read it for a claustrophobic tale that opens in darkness and the whisper of alien minds.

In its time

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

Reading it

9 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

George Schelling