Mutant — Henry Kuttner

The Chronicles of the Baldies

The Big Blow-up left huge radioactive sores (the graves of cities) all over the face of the Earth. In time, from some of the women who had been near these shunned areas, the first totally hairless babies began to be born.

Their difference was not at first noticeable. But eventually they became known as0:.; "Baldies"--and a new and terrifying difference became apparent. The Baldies were telepathic.

From then on they were hated by normal humans--and hunted like animals.

This is the saga of their struggle for survival and their desperate search to find a safe means of giving the power of telepathy to humans so that both kinds might live peacefully side by side.