Basil Wells 21 min read

Blind Duggan, master of a sharpened 'second sight,' takes a fat packet of bills for a tip on the breakthrough time, money enough to buy back his vision, for a while.

Basil Wells's 1954 story is a hard-edged psi-powers and time-travel tale set among miners of a strange frontier. Vivid, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for a moody story where a blind man's uncanny gift and a deadly gamble on the future collide in an underworld of tunnels and time.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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