Gerry Maddren 10 min read

Bart Neely fights the hypo they slipped over on him, struggling to keep his brain ready for plan B, for medical men think theirs is the final answer, but he knows a broader view of man.

Gerry Maddren's 1960 story is a sharp hard-SF and social-SF tale of mind over medicine. Clever, tense golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a psychologist facing a grim diagnosis stakes everything on the untapped powers of the mind, defying the doctors with an alternate plan of his own.

In its time

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

Reading it

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