Keith Laumer 55 min read

Granthan's mission is the most vital of the war, a mission that means instant victory. The only question is: victory for whom?

Keith Laumer's 1963 story wakes its wounded agent into a taut military first-contact tale of mind-control, loyalty, and a soldier who may no longer be himself. Fast, tense, ingenious golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping story where the greatest danger is that the hero can't trust his own mind.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

George Schelling