Marion Zimmer Bradley & Ted White 15 min read

From nowhere came the flames, giving him life and death together, and now he summons them again, not knowing the depths, or heights, of his own terrible power.

Ted White and Marion Zimmer Bradley's 1963 story is a vivid psi-and-space-opera tale of a man clothed in fire. Atmospheric, dramatic golden-age SF. Read it for a story of a reborn being wielding flame, discovering by degrees just how far his fearsome new power reaches.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Virgil Finlay