"Twilight Time"

Title"Twilight Time"
Year for Search1984
AuthorsShiner, Lewis [Gordon](b. 1950)
Secondary TitleIsaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
Volume / Edition 8.4 (77)
Pagination102-06, 108-24
Date PublishedApril 1984
ISSN Number1065-6298
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

A time travel story with dystopias both in the present and the past. In the past, aliens are taking control; in the present, the U.S. has voted to give complete power to a group promising security. Actions in the past change the dystopian present.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 421-39 with an editor's note on 420.

Author Note

(b. 1950)

Full Text

1984 Shiner, Lewis [Gordon] (b. 1950). “Twilight Time.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 8.4 (77) (April 1984): 102-06, 108-24. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 421-39 with an editor’s note on 420.

A time travel story with dystopias both in the present and the past. In the past, aliens are taking control; in the present, the U.S. has voted to give complete power to a group promising security. Actions in the past change the dystopian present.