"The Analysts"
| Title | "The Analysts" |
| Year for Search | 1961 |
| Authors | Brunner, John [Kilian Houston](1934-1995) |
| Secondary Title | Science Fantasy |
| Volume / Edition | 16.48 |
| Pagination | 2-38 |
| Date Published | August 1961 |
| ISBN Number | 978-0-7123-5382-3 |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Most of the story concerns a “visualizer” trying to understand the purpose of a proposed building with internal staircases and corridors that end in blank walls. It turns out that if someone continues, they emerge in a future that is trying to atone for the way humans responded to discovering many peaceful, advanced civilizations, which was to attack rather than try to understand. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Society of Time: The Original Trilogy and Other Stories. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 239-87. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1934-95) |
| Full Text | 1961 Brunner, John [Kilian Houston] (1934-95). “The Analysts.” Science Fantasy 16.48 (August 1961): 2-38. Rpt. in The Society of Time: The Original Trilogy and Other Stories. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 239-87. PSt Most of the story concerns a “visualizer” trying to understand the purpose of a proposed building with internal staircases and corridors that end in blank walls. It turns out that if someone continues, they emerge in a future that is trying to atone for the way humans responded to discovering many peaceful, advanced civilizations, which was to attack rather than try to understand. |
