Sense from Thought Divide

What happens when a hard-nosed personnel director meets a genuine psychic, and the military wants to weaponize him? Mark Clifton's 1950s gem follows Kennedy, a man of figures and facts, assigned to the military's Poltergeist Section to evaluate the Swami, a purported psychic who claims he can move objects with his mind. Kennedy's mission is straightforward: determine if the man is real or a fraud using logic, skepticism, and the unshakeable certainty that telekinesis is impossible. But the Swami has other plans, forcing Kennedy to witness what cannot be witnessed, to experience what cannot be explained. Objects move. Doors lock from the inside. And Kennedy's carefully constructed worldview begins to crack under the weight of the inexplicable. This is a crisp, knowing exploration of what happens when belief becomes necessity, when the skeptic must either admit he's wrong or watch reality rearrange itself before his eyes. For readers who crave science fiction that interrogates the boundary between the possible and the impossible, where the real question isn't what the Swami can do, but what Kennedy is willing to accept.