R. A. Lafferty 41 min read

One morning Charles Vincent wakes to find the world moving strangely slow around him, glass shattering by inches, clocks crawling, as if he alone has slipped into a faster stream of time.

R. A. Lafferty's 1960 story is a dazzling, original psi-powers and social-SF tale. Strange, brilliant, unmistakably Lafferty. Read it for a masterful early story from an SF original, a man who discovers he can live in accelerated time, and the six-fingered strangers who share that secret, told with wit and unease.

In its time

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

Reading it

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