Alan Edward Nourse 18 min read

From Amy Ballantine's private journal, kept nine years only in her mind: Lambertson comes back from Boston looking not just exhausted but defeated, and Amy, who sees more than most, knows why.

Alan E. Nourse's 1963 story is a poignant, understated psi-powers and social-SF tale of a gifted young woman. Sensitive, thoughtful golden-age SF. Read it for a quietly moving story of psychic talent and human loneliness, told in the intimate voice of a girl who reads the minds around her.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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