F. L. Wallace 1 hr 1 min read

'I've tried, but I just can't believe you're my husband,' Erica says with a yawn, and Dan Merrol, told at the hospital that he was Dan Merrol, feels his certainty slip away.

F. L. Wallace's 1954 story is a clever, poignant hard-SF and social-SF tale of a reassembled man. Sharp, humane golden-age SF. Read it for a story where an accident victim rebuilt from many donors must discover which parts of him, and which memories, and which loves, are truly his own.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

William Ashman