Laurence M. Janifer 34 min read

In the district of Offenburg in 1594, a hidden group of telepaths achieves a signal triumph, the first of its kind, long before the secret Masquerade that would one day shield all their kind.

Laurence M. Janifer's 1960 story is an atmospheric psi-powers space opera. Sharp, imaginative golden-age SF. Read it for an inventive story of persecuted telepaths hiding among ordinary folk across the centuries, framed as an episode from a secret history, in a well-turned golden-age piece about hidden powers, survival, and the price of concealment.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John Schoenherr