Jerry Sohl 18 min read

An hour out of San Francisco, idly people-watching aboard the flight to Los Angeles, the narrator makes a discovery, one that turns an ordinary airliner into a trap.

Jerry Sohl's 1960 story is a taut psi-powers and social-SF thriller. Sharp, gripping golden-age SF. Read it for a tense story where a chance realization aboard a passenger plane draws an ordinary man into deadly danger, and a little red bag holds a secret worth killing for.

In its time

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

Reading it

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