James H. Schmitz 54 min read

Something is hidden among the flowering Jontarou shrubs, spooking her cat and her own nerves alike, and fifteen-year-old genius Telzey Amberdon is about to discover what her mind can really do.

James H. Schmitz's 1962 story introduces Telzey Amberdon, one of SF's great young telepaths, in a superb psi-and-space-opera tale. Sharp, exciting, humane golden-age SF. Read it for the debut of a beloved heroine, awakening to powers that make her far more than an ordinary girl.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John Schoenherr