Charles V. De Vet 22 min read

He walks endlessly down a long glass-walled corridor, a blue knapsack on his shoulders, unable to grasp who he is or why he's here, until men begin shouting at him to halt.

Charles V. De Vet's 1960 story opens on disorientation and pursuit, building a tense psi-and-social-SF mystery. Sharp, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping story of a man fleeing through a strange place, hunted, with the truth of himself just out of reach.

In its time

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

Reading it

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