Bryce Walton 33 min read

A silver sphere glows and swells beside the Brain, and the narrator feels himself drawn in, melting away into heat and brightness until he becomes nothing at all.

Bryce Walton's 1946 story is a vivid psi-and-space-opera adventure of a disembodied hero and a monstrous ruling mind. Colorful, feverish golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of a man of action drawn into the power of a Brain-Mistress, and the strange war for his very self.

In its time

Published in 1946, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

R. A. Murphy