The Failed Men

by Brian Aldiss

Release: May 1956
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Surry Edmark, a 24th century volunteer on a humanitarian mission to save mankind from extinction some 360,000 centuries in the future, tells his story to a comforting young Chinese woman.

You are the struback.

DEBUT

“The Failed Men,” in Science Fantasy, May 1956.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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Groupings

Cited in Worlds Enough and Time, edited by Gary Westfahl ()
Cited in Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin ()

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ITTDB Work #1584: by Brian Aldiss
Indexer: not yet assigned
Curator: Michael Main
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