Invaders

by John Kessel

Release: October 1990
Format: Novelette
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

The story tells us of two sets of invaders—the 16th-century Spaniard Pizarro, who violently invaded the Incan Empire, and the Krel, who economically and culturally invaded 21st-century Earth—and we briefly hear of one man’s use of Krel tech to travel from the 21st century to the 16th.

— Michael Main

Sf is full of this sort of thing, from the power fantasy of the alienated child to the alternate history where Hitler is strangled in his cradle and the Library of Alexandria is saved from the torch.

DEBUT

“Invaders,” Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1990.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TRANSLATIONS

Translations to German, Italian, Polish

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Time Travel Methods

Alien Time Travel Technology

Real-World Tags

Groupings

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (periodical): Octorber 1990

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From an unspecified place, 21st century ⋙ to the Inca Empire, 18 October 1527. Note: a man named Chuan.