Neil J. Kenney 24 min read

A devoted secretary sets down the history of the telepathic, ESP-gifted children she served, the only such births ever to survive to maturity, and to open their strange school.

Neil J. Kenney's 1955 story is a thoughtful psi-powers and social-SF tale. Sharp, evocative golden-age SF. Read it for a well-framed story of gifted psychic children and the ordinary woman who chronicled them, told through her shorthand record of their transmissions, in a golden-age piece about difference, wonder, and the next step in humanity.

In its time

Published in 1955, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Paul Orban