"Time Deer"
| Title | "Time Deer" |
| Year for Search | 1974 |
| Authors | Strete, Craig [Kee](b. 1950 |
| Secondary Title | Red Deer Planet |
| Volume / Edition | 4 |
| Date Published | 1974 |
| Keywords | Male author, Native American author |
| Annotation | The story begins in a near-future where “the Monday morning traffic jam was three days old” (54), but its focus is on an old man watching a boy (his younger self but with knowledge of his own future) who is watching a deer. The old man is on his way to a doctor’s appointment arranged by the boy as adult with the intent of having his father declared incompetent. The ending is eutopian. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. Worlds of If 22.8 (175) (November-December 1974): 45-50; and in his If All Else Fails . . . (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980), 54-60. [The book includes an “Introduction: Notes on a Dangerous Writer” by Jorge Luis Borges (vii-viii]. |
| Holding Institutions | PLhS |
| Author Note | Native American Indian (Cherokee) author (b. 1950) |
| Full Text | 1974 Strete, Craig [Kee] (b. 1950). “Time Deer.” Red Planet Earth # 4 (1974). Rpt. Worlds of If 22.8 (175) (November-December 1974): 45-50 and in his If All Else Fails . . . (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980), 54-60. [The book includes an “Introduction: Notes on a Dangerous Writer” by Jorge Luis Borges (vii-viii]. PLhS The story begins in a near-future where “the Monday morning traffic jam was three days old” (54), but its focus is on an old man watching a boy (his younger self but with knowledge of his own future) who is watching a deer. The old man is on his way to a doctor’s appointment arranged by the boy as adult with the intent of having his father declared incompetent. The ending is eutopian. Native American Indian (Cherokee) author. |
