Albert Teichner 15 min read

'If I listed every trouble I've accumulated in a mere two hundred-odd years, you might laugh.' Treb Hawley, lifelong astronaut, lies beneath great lights, reckoning his long and unusual life.

Albert Teichner's 1962 story is a thoughtful AI-and-social-SF tale of longevity, identity, and what it means to be man-made. Reflective, poignant golden-age SF. Read it for a moving story narrated by a two-century-old spacefarer confronting the truth about himself.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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