William Tenn 23 min read

'Your noodle neck's the one being risked,' snaps the professor at the tobacco-chewing hobo Gooseneck McCarthy, recruited for the greatest adventure man has ever attempted.

William Tenn's 1947 story is a witty psi-and-space-opera tale of a drifter and a professor's world-shaking experiment. Sharp, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story where an irreverent tramp becomes the unlikely test subject for a leap into the impossible.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Al McWilliams