Sonya Dorman 10 min read

Through the generations the power has descended, now weaker, now stronger, and in the old Putnam house by the coast, it stirs again in a four-year-old girl playing in the garden with a pie plate.

Sonya Dorman's 1963 story is a subtle, atmospheric psi-powers and social-SF tale. Sharp, evocative golden-age SF. Read it for a beautifully written story of inherited psychic power flickering down the women of an old New England family, where an ancient tradition meets the encroaching modern world.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

George Schelling