MacMaine sits in two bare, windowless rooms, a prisoner of the alien enemy Earth is fighting, and is brought before their High Commander in an officer’s uniform stripped of insignia. Garrett’s novella from Analog in 1961 follows what MacMaine has done and why, building to a question about loyalty, stagnation and what treason really means.
Clever, provocative military science fiction from the magazine era, with a twist worth arriving at fresh. Download the free EPUB.