The Nuse Man
- by Margaret St. Clair
- Short Story
- Science Fiction, Comedy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
The Nuse Man
by Margaret St. Clair, in Galaxy, February 1960.
An intertemporal trader comes for a visit after a difficult time caused by his providing unlimited bricks to the ancient Sumerians.
—Michael Main
I didn’t have my chronnox—they’d arrested me in too much of a hurry for that—so I couldn’t get into another time. And I had no way of getting in touch with the home office. Certainly I was scared. And then there was the indignity—someone from when I come from, to be killed by a lot of primitive button heads. It made me sore.
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- Time Periods
- Ancient History (3000 BC to AD 476: Bronze/Iron Ages): time of the nuse man’s story, circa AD 3000
- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: the nuse tech comes from the far side of AD 3000
- Unspecified Year: Hard to tell what year the tea, toast, and marmalade woman might be in.
- Time Travel Methods
- Wearable Time Object: the wearable chronnox
- Themes
- Real-World Tags
- Sumer: The nuse man’s tale is set in the Sumerian civilization.
- Groupings
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The Nuse Man
by Margaret St. Clair, in Galaxy, February 1960.