Time Bum

by C. M. Kornbluth

Release: January/February 1953
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

After a con man reads a lurid science fiction magazine, a man who’s quite apparently out-of-time shows up to rent a furnished bungalow from Walter Lacblan.

Esperanto isn’t anywhere. It’s an artificial language. I played around with it a little once. It was supposed to end war and all sorts of things. Some people called it the language of the future.

DEBUT

“Time Bum,” Fantastic January/February 1953.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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Cited in Worlds Enough and Time, edited by Gary Westfahl ()

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY: We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.

ITTDB Work #1516: by C. M. Kornbluth
Indexer: not yet assigned
Curator: Michael Main
as of 5:04 p.m. MDT, 5 May 2024
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