Robert F. Young 38 min read

Nathan Blake watches a girl perform an alien betrothal ritual and asks, voice thick, whether she's free, for every man's mind holds countless places to hide, even from himself.

Robert F. Young's 1963 story is a lyrical, inventive psi-powers and social-SF tale. Vivid, imaginative golden-age SF. Read it for a story that journeys into the landscape of a man's own mind, where memory and desire take strange forms, and a lost girl waits somewhere in the depths of the self.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Jack Gaughan