Felony

Vogel runs a factory. He's good at it. He's ambitious, careful, and he knows exactly how things should look and work. Then Amenth arrives, a quiet worker who doesn't quite fit. Too graceful. Too observant. Too strange. As Vogel investigates this unsettling employee, he uncovers a truth stranger than any machine on his assembly line: Amenth is an alien, a fugitive from a civilization that judged him a criminal for the crime of being different. His people wanted perfection. Amenth was beautiful instead. Now the alien has one chance to build a device that will take him home, and Vogel holds the key to either his escape or his capture. James Causey's 1954 masterpiece asks what we sacrifice in pursuit of order, and whether the things we call monstrous might actually be the most human things of all. A lean, haunting meditation on conformity, compassion, and the terrible cost of erasing what we don't understand.