This is a nice short story that touches briefly on one of my personal pet tropes, the time viewer, but which is really once again a paranoid sort of piece—it seems that people in the future live lives of complete leisure, so who is providing for us?

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  1. “The Fence” by Clifford D. Simak, Space Science Fiction, September 1952.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Clifford D. Simak