Herbert D. Kastle 26 min read

Phony floor-manager Derrence Cale, who prides himself only on being a man, works amid the marble of the Chester Chemical Building, where something on the 36th floor is far from ordinary.

Herbert D. Kastle's 1963 story is a sharp first-contact and social-SF tale. Clever, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a story that finds the uncanny in the corporate high-rise, where an insecure office worker confronts a strange presence above him, in a well-turned golden-age piece about power, pretense, and the god on the 36th floor.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Virgil Finlay