Project Gutenberg 2010-05-18 Public domain in the USA. 231 Dickson, Gordon R. 1923 2001 No Shield from the Dead Produced from IF Worlds of Science Fiction January 1953. 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://book.klll.cc/files/32410/32410-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 86.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery 39960 2025-06-13T09:30:19.651563 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 64495 2025-06-13T09:30:21.460582 application/epub+zip 63306 2025-06-13T09:30:20.023563 application/epub+zip 59777 2025-06-13T09:30:19.813692 application/epub+zip 98160 2025-06-13T09:30:22.789560 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 91181 2025-06-13T09:30:21.254573 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 88091 2022-09-15T04:33:55.872474 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 33579 2025-06-13T09:30:19.535572 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 33414 2010-05-18T09:08:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 12885 2010-05-18T09:08:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18868 2025-06-13T09:30:22.939545 application/rdf+xml 28393 2025-06-13T09:30:19.895567 image/jpeg 4518 2025-06-13T09:30:19.852569 image/jpeg 67964 2025-06-13T09:30:19.666564 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia