Richard Thieme 9 min read

'What do you call it?' the carnival buyer asks, 'Journey Home,' says Jenkins, guaranteeing there's nothing like his new ride on any midway, behind its rough red curtain.

Richard Thieme's 1961 story spins an eerie psi-and-social-SF tale from a sideshow attraction that's more than it seems. Sharp, unsettling golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a carnival ride called 'Journey Home' delivers a trip the buyer never bargained for.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

George Schelling