Breakfast at Twilight

by Philip K. Dick

Release: July 1954
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Tim McLean’s ordinary family awakens on an ordinary day to find themselves in a war zone seven years in the future.

We fought in Korea. We fought in China. In Germany and Yugoslavia and Iran. It spread, farther and farther. Finally the bombs were falling here. It came like the plague. The war grew. It didn’t begin.

DEBUT

“Breakfast at Twilight,” in Amazing, July 1954.

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1 English variant

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Cited in Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin ()

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ITTDB Work #1547: by Philip K. Dick
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Curator: Michael Main
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