 We've all been taught the golden rule which basically says do unto others as you would have them do unto you or treat people the way you would want to be treated yourself. Well Damon Knight's novella rule golden reverses the golden rule. The idea being that whatever you do to people will happen to you. Well it turns out that there's an alien running around loose on earth and everywhere he goes he has this effect on people. And of course every government in the world is determined to find him and kill him. This is a novella it's a very short novel so you will always find it in a collection of stories by Damon Knight which you should be happy about because Damon Knight is a great author.