Jim Wannamaker 38 min read

There's just one way to disarm a bomb, be a step ahead of it. But what if the bomb is always a step ahead of you?

Jim Wannamaker's 1960 story sweeps an ordinary man into a shadowy government crisis, building a tense space-opera thriller around an impossible weapon. Sharp, suspenseful golden-age SF. Read it for a taut cat-and-mouse tale where the threat is always one move ahead.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Dick Francis