Chester S. Geier 29 min read

The country road winds up within Andy Pearce like twine, coiling into a ball of tension, for the wooded picnic spot he's leading his friends toward is not quite what they think.

Chester S. Geier's 1950 story builds a quietly suspenseful time-travel and social-SF tale from an ordinary summer outing. Sharp, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a casual picnic in the woods opens, unexpectedly, onto tomorrow.

In its time

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

Reading it

29 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Ramon Raymond