Tom Purdom 27 min read

By night, a convoy creeps from the Institute flying the colors of a mercenary regiment, carrying scientists testing a radical answer to war itself: an effective means of non-violent resistance.

Tom Purdom's 1962 story is a thoughtful military-SF and social-SF tale. Sharp, provocative golden-age SF. Read it for an original approach to humanity's gravest problem, how to settle disputes without the war that could end the race, in a well-reasoned golden-age piece that takes the science of non-violent resistance seriously and dramatically.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Dan Adkins