Winston K. Marks 10 min read

Why, out of 300 billion people, did they have to pick him, the day before his wedding to Betty? Standing naked and shaking before the mirror, he can barely say it: he's no longer quite human.

Winston K. Marks's 1955 story spins a tense, wry psi-and-social-SF tale of a man transformed on the eve of his marriage. Sharp, gripping golden-age SF. Read it for a story about an ordinary bridegroom handed extraordinary powers, and the wedding it may cost him.

In its time

Published in 1955, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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