Mack Reynolds 49 min read

The man who holds the Galactic Medal of Honor can do no wrong, and in a strange, terrible way, Captain Don Mathers is about to learn just how true that is.

Mack Reynolds's 1960 story is a sharp military and social-SF tale of a fraudulent hero and an unearned honor. Ironic, thoughtful golden-age SF. Read it for a story about a man who lies his way to glory, and discovers the awful weight of a decoration that makes him untouchable.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Bernklau