Jim Harmon 26 min read

How do you rate a man's loneliness, in megasorrows, in kilofears? A soldier, weighed down by something unbearable, begs his general to just let him tell it.

Jim Harmon's 1963 story builds a raw military and psi tale around a man carrying an intolerable burden. Sharp, intense golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping, emotionally charged story of isolation and dread, told in one desperate, unstoppable confession.

In its time

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

Reading it

26 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).