The Fence

by Clifford D. Simak

Release: September 1952
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

This is a nice short story that touches briefly on one of my personal pet tropes, the time viewer, but which is really once again a paranoid sort of piece—it seems that people in the future live lives of complete leisure, so who is providing for us?

DEBUT

“The Fence,” Space Science Fiction, September 1952.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Travel Methods

Chronoscopes

Groupings

Famous American Science Fiction et al. (periodical): June 1953
Space Science Fiction (periodical): September 1952

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY: We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.

ITTDB Work #7064: by Clifford D. Simak
Indexer: Michael Main
Curator: Michael Main
as of 8:05 a.m. MDT, 19 May 2024
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