The Best of Nancy Kress
“ This is a time-travel story that is not really about time travel. Real stories in this subgenre, like Michael Swanwick’s Bones of the Earth, tackle the paradoxes and complications inherent in the idea of going back in time. Often they feature characters who are either researchers or financial opportunists thrilled to know what the economy is going to do in the future. Or else, like Jeff in Ken Grimwood’s excellent Replay, they are trapped in the past against their will.
Harry Kramer is not a ...researcher, not an opportunist, not trapped. He’s a simple man with a simple goal: to raid 1937 for whatever will make 1989 easier for two elderly men on tiny budgets. To research this story, I spent a lot of time with issues of LIFE magazine from the 1930’s. A much different world, as alien to me as is much of science fiction, and mostly unaware of the history about to come crashing down on the planet in the next decade.MoreLess
Harry Kramer is not a ...researcher, not an opportunist, not trapped. He’s a simple man with a simple goal: to raid 1937 for whatever will make 1989 easier for two elderly men on tiny budgets. To research this story, I spent a lot of time with issues of LIFE magazine from the 1930’s. A much different world, as alien to me as is much of science fiction, and mostly unaware of the history about to come crashing down on the planet in the next decade.MoreLess
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