Test to Destruction

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"Test to Destruction" is a novelette by Keith Laumer from Harlan Ellison's science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions (1967). It also appears in A Plague of Demons and Other Stories, a posthumous Laumer omnibus edited by Eric Flint and published in 2003.

Plot

The leader of a rebellion is questioned in a mental torture device chair. An alien mind probe finds him as the most powerful mental emission from the planet at the time. The aliens try to test him to destruction.

External links

Test to Destruction title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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