Charles V. De Vet 21 min read

The man he searches for could be anybody, no face, no fingerprints, no clue. Once his best friend, now a stranger with a 'bug' in his brain, he must be found before there's no one left at all.

Charles V. De Vet's 1960 story builds a tense first-contact and social-SF manhunt through city after city. Sharp, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping tale of a searcher hunting a transformed friend whose new nature threatens everyone.

In its time

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

Reading it

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