Jack Sharkey 22 min read

'I found a way to reverse an electro-encephalograph, to play recorded thoughts into a man's mind,' Dr. Burgess explains, and Norcriss, a zoologist who mind-links with alien fauna, listens.

Jack Sharkey's 1963 story is a clever psi-powers and social-SF tale from his Contact series. Sharp, inventive golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a specialist trained to enter alien minds is drawn into a desperate experiment, and the creature he must confront is closer to home than he thinks.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Wallace Wood