Hal Annas 21 min read

In a far future of telepaths who walk through walls, Art Fillmore reads the mental news, 'Scientists to awaken twentieth-century man', and heads off, distracted, to plan his own wedding.

Hal Annas's 1950 story is an imaginative post-apocalyptic and social-SF tale. Vivid, speculative golden-age SF. Read it for a colorful vision of a transformed humanity with strange new powers, whose plan to revive a sleeper from our own age sets an ultimate quest in motion, in an idea-rich golden-age adventure.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

W. E. Terry