Robert Moore Williams 22 min read

'Get the hell out of my sight!' Held captive by the Reds, the scientist Holder has dreamed of destroying them with impossible weapons, but what happens outstrips even his fiercest dreams.

Robert Moore Williams's 1957 story builds a tense psi-and-social-SF Cold War tale of a captive genius. Sharp, dramatic golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a hatred-fueled inventor's darkest fantasies of revenge give way to something far stranger.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Becker