Robert Silverberg 20 min read

Coming in for a landing over Mordarga, Rick Mason hears a cry for help, not over his audio, but straight in his mind: his mentally-linked Venusian partner has been captured.

Robert Silverberg's 1957 story is a fast first-contact and psi space opera of a telepathic intelligence team. Sharp, brisk golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing tale where one half of a mind-linked partnership must race to rescue the other from alien captors.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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