J. Harvey Haggard 13 min read

Bending over his phosphorescent machine, a young man in gossamer robes zooms a silver sphere into view, continents, then a city, then a room, then a girl who never leaves the floor.

J. Harvey Haggard's 1947 story opens on a hauntingly strange act of far-viewing across worlds. Atmospheric, imaginative golden-age SF. Read it for an evocative tale of a watcher spying on a distant sphere, and the graceful, angelic girl he cannot look away from.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hardison