H. B. Fyfe 22 min read

To use the minds of other beings to see for you, to speak for you, is a considerable talent, and a considerable risk. The Klygha rides inside another's head, dreaming to wake the cat.

H. B. Fyfe's 1963 story is an inventive first-contact and psi-powers tale told from a strange alien viewpoint. Sharp, disorienting golden-age SF. Read it for a story that renders the confused inner world of a mind-riding entity, struggling to remember who is who as it borrows the senses of the creatures around it.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

George Schelling