Joseph Samachson 25 min read

Bradley had one fear, regeneration, and to escape it he would take any chance, coward though he was, even if it meant becoming a god.

Joseph Samachson's 1955 story follows a frightened stowaway's desperate flight aboard a speeding ship, building a tense social-SF tale of survival and transformation. Sharp, ironic golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping story of a coward who reaches for divinity to save his own skin.

In its time

Published in 1955, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Kelly Freas