Walter Kubilius 22 min read

Playing the honest citizen, high-strung Donovan trembles as he hands over his ID, for the man before him is a Criminal Destroyer, hunting unlicensed time travelers across the centuries.

Walter Kubilius's 1951 story is a rousing post-apocalyptic and time-travel tale. Vivid, gripping golden-age SF. Read it for a fast-moving story of a future where cyclic time-travel is policed by ruthless agents, and a desperate man risks everything to alter the past, in a colorful golden-age piece of temporal intrigue and danger.

In its time

Published in 1951, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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