Philip José Farmer 19 min read

Until James Carroad performed his experiment, one inner voice always told us the truth. Afterward, there were two voices, and only one was the voice of conscience.

Philip José Farmer's 1963 story is a chilling dystopian tale of a scientist who experiments on his own unborn child to impress the state. Sharp, unsettling social SF from a master. Read it for a dark, provocative story about conscience, control, and the manufacturing of belief.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Dan Adkins