Robert H. Rohrer 20 min read

Rahll floats as a dim pattern of electrical impulse in the void, dimly aware that he is dying into nothingness, his consciousness unraveling into millions of aimless thought-forms.

Robert H. Rohrer's 1962 story is an eerie, cerebral first-contact and horror tale of a disembodied alien mind. Atmospheric, strange golden-age SF. Read it for a haunting story told from inside a dissolving consciousness, where fighting fire with fire may cost more than it saves.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Dan Adkins