"Barrier"
| Title | "Barrier" |
| Year for Search | 1942 |
| Authors | [White], [William Anthony Parker] |
| Tertiary Authors | Boucher, Anthony [pseud.] |
| Secondary Title | Astounding Science Fiction (New York) |
| Volume / Edition | 30.1 |
| Pagination | 9-33 |
| Date Published | September 1942 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | 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." |
| Additional Publishers | 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) |
| Full Text | 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.” |
