Charles D. Cunningham 17 min read

Gray clouds hang low over the city as the down-on-his-luck investigator Keller broods in his shabby office, until, unlikely as it seems, a new client's voice sounds outside his door.

Charles D. Cunningham's 1962 story is a sharp hard-SF and social-SF mystery. Clever, engaging golden-age SF. Read it for a story that opens like detective noir and turns on a scientific impossibility, as a struggling investigator takes the strangest case of his career: a man who flew.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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