Jim Harmon 30 min read

'Witch! Witch!' the crowd cries at Hammen, but he wears the word like a badge now, a hated, powerful outcast who walks among the people with only his loyal Familiar at his heels.

Jim Harmon's 1960 story unfolds a sharp psi-and-social-SF tale of a feared, gifted pariah. Vivid, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a story of a man branded a witch on a strange future world, and the dangerous power that sets him apart.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Bob Ritter