Keith Laumer 1 hr read

In his room at the Elsby Commercial Hotel, Tremaine bugs the telephone and calls Washington, sent to a sleepy town to investigate a strange signal, and a man as ancient as time.

Keith Laumer's 1963 story is a gripping first-contact and psi-powers thriller. Sharp, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a taut tale where a government agent's investigation of a mysterious transmission uncovers an immortal being locked in a desperate, age-long battle against incredible odds.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Virgil Finlay