No Shield from the Dead

Gordon R. Dickson is probably best remembered for his "Childe Cycle" and "Dragon Knight" series, but he won the Hugo Award three times and the Nebula once.

This is an engaging story. The editor of "IF" blurbed it coyly -- "No conceivable force could penetrate Terri's shield. Yet he was defenseless." As if to say, the old man had him dead to rights, didn't he? And maybe he did