David Duncan 49 min read

Dr. Peccary's irritation is his conscience, threatening to come between him and billions, for Staghorn's computer has torn the veil from the future, and maybe the future is simply ugly.

David Duncan's 1960 novel is a sharp hard-SF and social-SF tale of foreknowledge and immortality. Clever, provocative golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a computer's glimpse of tomorrow promises undreamed-of wealth and endless life, and the men who grasp for both must reckon with what the future really holds.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Dick Francis