Genres: Science Fiction, Weird Fiction, Mystery and Crime
Audience: Adults
Content: Time Phenomena
Original Language: English
A jilted man plans murderous revenge while trying to avoid any behavior that would reveal his
plans to the government’s all-seeing technology that can reconstruct the past from
electromagnetic and sound waves.
— Michael Main
It was sensitive enough to pick up the “fingerprints” of light and sound waves
imprinted on matter, descramble and screen them, and reproduce the image of what had
happened.
Alternative byline. “Private Eye,” in The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1950, edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty (Frederick Fell, September 1950).
German translation: [ex=bare]“Spürauge” | Tracking eye[/ex], in 10 Science Fiction Kriminal-Stories, edited by Arnulf D. Kraus and Helmuth W. Mommers (Heyne, 1965).
Credits—We are uncertain whether <a href='C._L._Moore'>C. L. Moore</a> contributed to this story. She was credited in <em>Science Fiction Inventions,</em> edited by Damon Knight (Lancer Books, <samp>1967</samp>), but not in later anthology reprints.