Neil Goble 24 min read

Freddy the Fish, dozing on a park bench, glances at a headline about mysterious signals from outer space and mutters, 'Probably from Cygnus', a shabby vagrant who knows rather more than he should.

Neil Goble's 1963 story spins a wry psi-and-social-SF tale from an unassuming drifter with hidden depths. Clever, offbeat golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a park-bench bum casually holds knowledge that could change the world.

In its time

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

Reading it

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