Stephen Marlowe 1 hr 51 min read

At the Eradrome, amid the shouts of hawkers from a dozen centuries and tourists garbed across fifty generations, agent Tedor Barwan gets an alarming call through the radio buried in his mastoid bone.

Stephen Marlowe's 1955 story is a rousing dystopian and time-travel adventure. Vivid, imaginative golden-age SF. Read it for a colorful tale of a future where time-tourism is a bustling industry policed by agents like Barwan, and a menace threatens the whole enterprise, in a fast-moving golden-age piece rich with the teeming spectacle of a temporal crossroads.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 51 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Paul Calle