Miriam Allen De Ford 25 min read

Dusty, lonely Mikel Skot has sold tickets at Time Travel Tours for twelve years without once taking a trip or learning a girl's first name, until, at last, he does both.

Miriam Allen de Ford's 1955 story is a wry, warm social-SF and time-travel tale. Charming, clever golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story of a timid ticket-seller who finally ventures into the past he sells to others, and finds romance and adventure, in a light, humane golden-age piece about breaking free of a small, safe life.

In its time

Published in 1955, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Kelly Freas