James H. Schmitz 36 min read

Half an hour late to the Institute of Insight's Sunday meeting, Wallace Cavender signs the attendance book in the deserted hall and slips toward the distant drone of Dr. Ormond's lecture.

James H. Schmitz's 1963 story builds a sharp psi-and-social-SF tale around a psychic-development institute and one very capable member. Clever, surprising golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a quiet meeting of 'advanced students' proves to involve powers, and stakes, far beyond self-improvement.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Leo Summers