Jim Harmon 28 min read

Safe in his own time, color TV in a shop window, a failed rocket in the newspaper, scowling men in walrus-skin coats on the corner, he turns the corner at last to do the thing he aches to do.

Jim Harmon's 1961 story is a sharp, unsettling social-SF and time-travel tale. Clever, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a tense story where a man, convinced he's safe in his own era, risks the forbidden act he's longed for, and learns the dead past does not always stay buried.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Walker