Man of Many Minds

In 1963, when telepathy was still fresh territory for science fiction, Edward Everett Evans imagined a young cadet whose mind could do the impossible: slip into the thoughts of animals, feel their senses as his own, become them. George Hanlon's extraordinary mental abilities make him the Inter-stellar Corps' most valuable asset in confronting a vast conspiracy threatening all human-occupied worlds. Someone, or something, is methodically positioning themselves for supreme power across the galaxy, and no ordinary agent can penetrate the shadows where they operate. But Hanlon isn't ordinary. His mind is a weapon, a door that opens into countless others. The Corps needs a man who can be everywhere, see everything, and become anyone. Even if that means losing himself in the process. This is old-school space opera at its most inventive: one lone operative with psychic gifts facing down an ancient evil, and the only way to stop it is to think his way inside its defenses. The prose pulses with pulp energy, the concepts crackle with genuine imagination, and Hanlon's ability to inhabit animal minds makes for sequences unlike anything else in early SF. For readers who grew up on Doctor Who, Perry Rhodan, or the classic Dan Fortune mysteries, this is the kind of wild, inventive adventure that made science fiction feel like the future.