Project Gutenberg 2010-05-18 Public domain in the USA. 72 Dickson, Gordon R. 1923 2001 No Shield from the Dead Reading ease score: 86.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "No Shield from the Dead" by Gordon R. Dickson is a science fiction novella written in the early 1950s. The story explores themes of power, blackmail, and the consequences of one's actions within a futuristic society characterized by personal shields that provide complete protection. The narrative centers around an unexpected confrontation between a high-ranking government official and an older man who reveals dark truths about the official’s past. The novella unfolds as Terri Mac, a government comptroller, finds himself trapped in a shielded room with an old man who knows potentially damaging secrets about him. As the old man confronts Terri with the haunting remembrance of a young woman’s tragic death, he reveals that Terri's ambition and ruthlessness played a role in her demise. The old man threatens to take his own life, framing Terri for murder, thus ensuring that his secrets will destroy the ambitious politician. The story culminates in a tense moment of moral reckoning and the devastating consequences of Terri's past actions, leading to his inevitable downfall as the authorities close in. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32410/32410-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 39823 39819 2024-10-13T15:32:46.815698 2023-09-14T08:15:00.026983 text/html text/html 36087 2010-05-18T09:08:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 65017 2010-05-18T09:08:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 64426 2024-10-13T15:32:48.465693 application/epub+zip 63317 2024-10-13T15:32:47.149700 application/epub+zip 59789 2024-10-13T15:32:46.968707 application/epub+zip 98166 2024-10-13T15:32:49.729702 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 91181 2024-10-13T15:32:48.282696 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 88091 2022-09-15T04:33:55.872474 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 33579 33476 2024-10-13T15:32:46.713703 2023-09-14T08:14:59.935861 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 33414 2010-05-18T09:08:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 12885 2010-05-18T09:08:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19779 2024-10-13T15:32:49.856680 application/rdf+xml 28393 2024-10-13T15:32:47.032710 image/jpeg 4518 2024-10-13T15:32:47.000693 image/jpeg 67919 2024-10-13T15:32:46.825703 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia