Affirmative Auction

by James Morrow

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

A Plutonian captain in the Pangalactic Virtue Patrol brings his time-traveling spaceship to a South Carolina slave auction in 1801 for a muddled morality lesson.

. . . we have journeyed here from our mutual sun’s ninth body to rectify an anomaly that for over two centuries has corrupted your civilization.

DEBUT

“Affirmative Auction,” Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2013,.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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ITTDB Work #2974: by James Morrow
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Curator: Michael Main
as of 7:07 p.m. MDT, 5 May 2024
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