H. B. Hickey 39 min read

Wilbur Mook wakes from a glorious dream of punching Pete Bellows' head, only to face the real Pete's angry stare at work, until he discovers his eye can do more than merely see.

H. B. Hickey's 1948 story is a wry psi-powers and social-SF tale of a meek man's hidden power. Fun, genial golden-age SF. Read it for a comic story where a downtrodden nobody finds that his own eye grants him a startling ability, and the timid Wilbur Mook must decide what to do with it.

In its time

Published in 1948, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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