James H. Schmitz 42 min read

A man and a woman step from a faculty restaurant into the sunlight, unaware that scanning devices, and far greater powers, have already fastened their attention upon them.

James H. Schmitz's 1962 story is a gripping psi-powers and social-SF thriller of a hunt for a godlike telepath. Sharp, suspenseful golden-age SF. Read it for a tense cat-and-mouse tale from a master of psionic SF, where a rogue mind endangers all humanity.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Virgil Finlay