Gerald W. Page 40 min read

Rounding an outcrop ten miles from the East Coast Mausoleum, Nelson comes face to face with a lean blond girl, barely twenty, both poised defensively, each startled to find another living soul.

Gerald W. Page's 1963 story is a sharp dystopian social-SF tale of a strange and empty future. Clever, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a story where two wary survivors meet in a depopulated land, and the unsettling truth of the happy man, and the mausoleum, slowly comes clear.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

George Schelling