Jim Harmon 14 min read

Across the restaurant, Linton sees a man who looks exactly like Rogers Snead, but Snead is dead, as his dinner companion keeps insisting, a little too anxiously.

Jim Harmon's 1961 story opens on an unsettling recognition and builds a tense social-SF and time-travel mystery. Sharp, eerie golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a dead man across the room pulls at a thread that shouldn't be pulled.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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