A man awakens in a jail cell with no memory of how he got there. Accused of heinous crimes, he clings to claims of innocence even as his eccentric court-appointed robot lawyer pushes for a permanent “protective custody.” But when offered a supposed chance at escape, will he find the courage to walk out or accept a lifelong fate behind bars?
The man on the bunk woke, but not up. Not up at all. He didn’t move, except for a sort of general half-twitch, half-shrug; didn’t even open his eyes. Just past the black borderland of sleep in the miasmic, grey fog in which he found or failed to find himself, two things only seemed sure. One of these was that there was no hurry whatever about opening his eyes to his immediate surroundings. That could wait. He didn’t know why but he knew it could wait.
He knew that. He knew also that he was a man. No doubt there. Not for an instant did he so much as suspect that he might be a small boy, a girl, woman, or some nameless beast. No; he was a man. Not an old man, either. A man and still at least reasonably young.
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First Published 1962
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