Robert Shea 12 min read

'Tell me your story again,' the girl says to the short, stocky man with Asiatic features and a long mustache, a man from a cramped past age, awakening baffled beneath two suns.

Robert Shea's 1959 story is a thoughtful hard-SF and social-SF tale of a man revived far in the future. Sharp, humane golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a fierce figure from the deep past must reckon with a strange new age of robots and twin suns, and find his place in it.

In its time

Published in 1959, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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