Basil Wells 31 min read

The experiment flopped, or succeeded too well: when the ego-transfer machine shorted out, its blast killed the doctors and flung human minds hurtling across space to contact life on Venus.

Basil Wells's 1946 story is an inventive colonization and post-apocalyptic tale of minds cast between worlds. Vivid, strange golden-age pulp. Read it for a wild premise well told, where a botched mind-transplant experiment leaves mindless things groveling in an Ohio town and sets a stranger drama unfolding on Venus.

In its time

Published in 1946, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Joseph Doolin