"The World-Timer"
Title | "The World-Timer" |
Year for Search | 1960 |
Authors | Bloch, Robert [Albert](1917-94) |
Secondary Title | Fantastic Science Fiction Stories |
Volume / Edition | 9.8 |
Pagination | 6-32 |
Date Published | August 1960 |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | A parallel timeline that has solved human psycho-sexual problems and produced a eutopia. Each person goes through three stages. The first stage from age sixteen in which boys are paired with women in their thirties and girls are paired with men in their thirties and with whom they have and raise children to age six (after which the children are raised by the state). In the second stage the roles are reversed. Each of the first two stages last for ten years. In the third stage adults form relationships for as long as they choose. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told [1 (1966)]: 77-101; and in his Last Rites. Volume 3 of The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (Los Angeles, CA: Underwood-Miller, 1987), 11-33. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | (1917-94) |
Full Text | 1960 Bloch, Robert [Albert] (1917-94). “The World-Timer.” Fantastic Science Fiction Stories 9.8 (August 1960): 6-32. Rpt. in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told [1 (1966)]: 77-101; and in his Last Rites. Volume 3 of The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (Los Angeles, CA: Underwood-Miller, 1987), 11-33. PSt A parallel timeline that has solved human psycho-sexual problems and produced a eutopia. Each person goes through three stages. The first stage from age sixteen in which boys are paired with women in their thirties and girls are paired with men in their thirties and with whom they have and raise children to age six (after which the children are raised by the state). In the second stage the roles are reversed. Each of the first two stages last for ten years. In the third stage adults form relationships for as long as they choose. |