Credit: Owen Smith
In a rural hospital, Lenny hears a message of staggering importance from the man in the next bed. Will he get it?
[Editor's note: Science fiction author Algis Budrys died on June 9, 2008; a review of his eventful career begins on page 80. The following story originally appeared in the March 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.]
"Len? Lenny?" The unearthly man in the next bed was trying to wake me up.
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