Across the world, people are suddenly possessed: some unseen power takes over their bodies, makes them do terrible things, then lets them go. Chandler stands trial in a high-school gym for what he did while possessed, and is cast out into a shattered society where no one can trust anyone, not even themselves.
A grim, gripping dystopia from Galaxy in 1962, later expanded into Pohl’s novel A Plague of Pythons. Download the free EPUB.