Noel M. Loomis 22 min read

Slim Coleman's brain-finder works all too well, a machine that reads the complete record of everything a person has ever experienced, a device few would want and some would want far too much.

Noel M. Loomis's 1951 story spins a clever hard-SF and psi tale from a mind-reading invention on a hot August day. Sharp, ingenious golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a device that lays bare every buried memory proves as dangerous to its makers as to anyone else.

In its time

Published in 1951, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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