Winston K. Marks 25 min read

A pretty fair script arrives just when every playwright worth his salt is in France, in Hollywood, or sulking in a slump, and a crew-cut youngster in blue jeans pops into the producer's office.

Winston K. Marks's 1958 story is a wry psi-powers and social-SF tale of the theatre. Clever, engaging golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a desperate Broadway producer's unknown new playwright turns out to command a startling power over the human mind, and the mind digger of the title reshapes the very idea of drama.

In its time

Published in 1958, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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