
Dr. Lucifer Brill strides through the marble corridors of a federal building, his crisp leather shoes echoing his determination. He’s a parapsychology professor turned reluctant informant, pressing a frazzled FBI director for an audience despite a missed appointment. The tension is palpable as Brill, notebook in hand, prepares to unveil a matter that bridges academic curiosity and national security.
What he reports is staggering: over three thousand individuals have vanished across the United States in the past eight years, all classified as “positive positives”—people whose psychic abilities set them apart. Brill suspects these abductions are part of a covert experiment, possibly involving extraterrestrial forces probing humanity’s hidden potential. As the director’s recorder clicks, the stage is set for a race against time, where the line between science, espionage, and the unknown begins to blur.
Language
en
Duration
~2 hours (135K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2019-05-18
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1915–1996
Best known for co-writing the Hugo Award-winning novel They'd Rather Be Right, this American science fiction writer also worked as an editor and later became a respected newspaper editor. His career stretched from pulp-era storytelling into mainstream journalism, giving his work an unusual range.
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