James Stamers 47 min read

Fred forgot Elsie's beer again, remembering only at the apartment door, amid smoke and onions and an unmade bed and the row he knows is coming.

James Stamers's 1960 story is a wry psi-powers and social-SF tale that opens in shabby domesticity. Clever, imaginative golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a hen-pecked everyman's dreary flat conceals an escape into something extraordinary, and the divers of the title plunge into realms far from his kitchen quarrels.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Wallace Wood