"Barrier"

Year for Search
1942
Secondary Title
Astounding Science Fiction (New York)
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The future has established barriers to time travelers, and the period presented here is an authoritarian dystopia with limits to try to keep change from happening. The ideal is "Stasis."

Volume / Edition
30.1
Pagination
9-33
Published Date

September 1942

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1942 [White, William Anthony Parker] (1911-68). “Barrier.” By Anthony Boucher [pseud.]. Astounding Science Fiction (New York) 30.1 (September 1942): 9-33. Rpt. in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 134-88; in From Mind to Mind: Tales of Communication from Analog. At head of title Analog Anthology #9. Ed. Stanley Schmidt (New York: Dial Press Davis Publications, 1984), 7-47; and in The Compleat Boucher: The Complete Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Anthony Boucher. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1998), 165-201.

The future has established barriers to time travelers, and the period presented here is an authoritarian dystopia with limits to try to keep change from happening. The ideal is “Stasis.”

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Rpt. in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 134-88; in From Mind to Mind: Tales of Communication from Analog. At head of title Analog Anthology #9. Ed. Stanley Schmidt (New York: Dial Press Davis Publications, 1984), 7-47; and in The Compleat Boucher: The Complete Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Anthony Boucher. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1998), 165-201.

Pseudonym

Anthony Boucher [pseud.]

Author Note

(1911-68)

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