Stanley R. Lee 20 min read

Pendelton outlines an experiment to test the existence of the God-idea, and the question at once becomes: was the experiment Pendelton's idea, or God's?

Stanley R. Lee's 1961 story is a thoughtful, provocative hard-SF and social-SF tale. Sharp, ideas-driven golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a pair of physicists set out to put the divine to a scientific test, and the great implication of what they find turns the whole question inside out.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Virgil Finlay