Richard Wilson 10 min read

Only rare people can do the 'side-shuffle' between dimensions, and if you're one, you'd better be very well paid for it.

Richard Wilson's 1954 story is narrated by a dimensional traveler-for-hire negotiating a lucrative, risky job with a man named Krasnow, in a wry tale where the choice is 'making time or doing time.' Fast, funny social SF with a sharp voice and a criminal edge. Read it for breezy, clever golden-age SF about a very specialized and very dangerous talent.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

10 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

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