Unwelcome Tenant

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Unwelcome Tenant

by Roger D. Aycock

EN·~11 minutes·1 chapter

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1 total
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11:36

Description

A daring astronaut becomes humanity’s first true deep‑space traveler, soaring between Earth and Mars toward a mysterious “zero point” where the two planets’ gravities cancel. As the craft glides through the void, the pilot’s calm routine is shattered by a sudden, overwhelming terror that seems to come from inside his own mind. In a frantic struggle he discovers a hidden, parasitic intelligence that has been silently guiding his thoughts all his life.

When the alien presence finally tears itself away, the astronaut is left with an unsettling sense of absolute freedom and a mind that suddenly feels limitless. The experience forces him to confront the unsettling possibility that every human might be host to such unseen tenants. As he drifts toward the red planet, he must grapple with the new, frightening potential of his own untethered consciousness.

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Language

en

Duration

~11 minutes (11K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2021-03-04

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Roger D. Aycock

Roger D. Aycock

1914–2004

A steady hand in mid-century science fiction, this Georgia-born writer published dozens of imaginative magazine stories under the name Roger Dee. His work mixed classic pulp adventure with sharp, often unsettling ideas about technology, alien life, and human nature.

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