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Pariah: Declared Dead, Returned Alive

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Harry Allerton returns to Earth expecting relief, routine, and a future he can finally control. Instead, he steps into a city that treats him like an inconvenience—legally erased, emotionally displaced, and quietly expected to disappear again. What should have been a homecoming becomes a slow, humiliating reckoning with how easily a man can be replaced once he’s declared gone.

As the hours pass, Allerton moves through familiar streets that no longer belong to him, forced to confront what “security” really means when every social structure has already adjusted to his absence. The story tightens not through spectacle, but through restraint—measured conversations, polite smiles, and institutional decisions made long before he arrived. Each encounter narrows his options until the question is no longer where he belongs, but whether belonging was ever possible on Earth at all.

Pariah is a quiet, devastating piece of science fiction that strips away adventure and heroics to examine the human cost of exploration. It asks what happens when survival itself becomes a bureaucratic problem—and when a man learns that returning home may be more alien than deep space ever was.

Milton Lesser was a prolific and adaptable writer whose science fiction frequently focused on individuals caught between private need and public necessity. Writing under his own name and several pseudonyms, Lesser contributed stories to magazines such as Astounding Science Fiction, Galaxy, and Amazing Stories. Pariah stands as one of his most emotionally grounded works, using speculative futures to expose how institutions reshape ordinary lives with chilling efficiency.

© 2022 Scott Miller (Lydbog): 9781669616917

Udgivelsesdato

Lydbog: 9. januar 2022

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