George R. Hahn 16 min read

His name was really John Smith, a thoroughly medium man in every way, until he became Achilles Maravain, who can't be hurt by bullets, bombs, or blasters, and whose touch brings instant death.

George R. Hahn's 1942 story spins a wild psi-powered tale from an utterly ordinary man's extraordinary transformation. Colorful, fast-moving golden-age SF. Read it for a rollicking story about the most average of men suddenly made invulnerable and lethal.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John R. Forte