Robert F. Young 20 min read

Before a closed Senate committee on space progress, Lieutenant Colonel Greaves testifies, and what he reveals touches one of humanity's most basic memories, and its very concept of God.

Robert F. Young's 1969 story is a thoughtful, mythic social-SF space opera. Provocative, literate golden-age SF. Read it for a cerebral Young tale that mines myth and memory for its speculation, framed as a secret hearing transcript, probing the origins of the divine idea, in an idea-rich, thought-provoking golden-age piece.

In its time

Published in 1969, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

George Schelling