John Berryman 54 min read

'Don't let the old goat rattle you, Pheola,' Billy Joe soothes his frightened clairvoyant companion as they ride up to the penthouse, for the Grand Master must okay her training.

John Berryman's 1963 story (as Walter Bupp) is a genial psi-powers and social-SF tale. Clever, warm golden-age SF. Read it for a story in Berryman's psionics series, where a hillbilly clairvoyant with a rare and valuable talent is tested by the powers-that-be, and timing proves everything.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

George Schelling