Jim Harmon 50 min read

They finally got rid of war, for the first time there was peace on Earth, since the only possible victims were the killers themselves. Abe Danniels sweats his way west across an empty America.

Jim Harmon's 1962 story is a sharp dystopian and post-apocalyptic tale. Clever, unsettling golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a chilling technological 'peace' has been imposed on the world, and a lone traveler crosses a transformed, half-deserted America toward the place where Chicago was.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Cowles