Rog Phillips 43 min read

Is there anything absolutely beyond human comprehension? To dramatize the incomprehensible, a thing we can grasp only by what it is not, this tale gives humanity a strange and unthinkable challenge.

Rog Phillips's 1948 story is an ambitious hard-SF and social-SF tale. Cerebral, imaginative golden-age SF. Read it for a bold Phillips story that dares to portray the genuinely incomprehensible, following up his 'The Despoilers' with a philosophical fable about the limits of the human mind, in an idea-driven golden-age piece that reaches for the truly unthinkable.

In its time

Published in 1948, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

W. E. Terry