Bryce Walton 38 min read

The psychometric council condemns Dr. Jonathan Ward as a paranoiac, his belief in a super-insect menace to humanity ruled a delusion, and sentences him to the reconditioning clinics.

Bryce Walton's 1947 story builds first-contact horror around a man whose 'madness' may be the only true perception of an alien threat. Tense, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a chilling tale where the one man who sees the danger is the one everyone calls insane.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

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