Randall Garrett 1 hr 11 min read

Angela Donahue, days short of her seventh birthday, is found murdered in a sewer, and an investigator confronts her killer, and the strange question of how any prison can truly hold a man.

Randall Garrett's 1962 story (as Jonathan Blake MacKenzie) is a hard-edged psi-and-social-SF tale of crime and confinement. Sharp, gripping golden-age SF. Read it for a story that pairs a brutal murder with a provocative question: what kind of cage can hold the human mind?

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

1 hr 11 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

John Schoenherr