Jim Harmon 31 min read

They would not believe Malloy was alone in the padded cell, that made it worse. Currently he is walking from Peoria to Detroit, and has just reached Chicago; it's fine to see State Street again.

Jim Harmon's 1960 story is an inventive, unsettling first-contact and social-SF tale. Sharp, strange golden-age SF. Read it for a story of a confined man whose mind roams impossibly free, and the trespass of the title that makes his keepers, at last, take terrible notice.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Martinez