Gene Hunter 6 min read

Lonely in this strange, backward age, a time-traveller from Galaxy XIX spots another of his kind in the same railway coach and hurries over: 'When are you from?'

Gene Hunter's 1958 story mines wry comedy from far-future tourists slumming in our era, bound by the strict First Law of Thek. Light, clever social SF. Read it for a droll tale of time-travelling sightseers and the rules they're not supposed to break in the primitive past.

In its time

Published in 1958, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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