"Hopper"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novelette
Year: 1954
ID: 453
Publication history:
- ????: Terra Extra #67, Magazine, in German as Zeitspringer
- 1956: Infinity Science Fiction October 1956, Magazine
- 1962: The Seed of Earth/Next Stop the Stars, Ace Mass market paperback, 253 pp.
- 1977: Next Stop the Stars, Ace Mass market paperback, ISBN 441-57420, 144 pp.
- 1979: Next Stop the Stars, Dobson Hard cover book, ISBN 023472143X
- 1980: Science Fiction Origins, Popular Library Mass market paperback
- 1986: Next Stop the Stars, Tor Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-812-55462-0, 213 pp.
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
Quellen is a petty law-enforcement bureaucrat with a big secret: in an overcrowded world, he keeps a private residence he's not entitled to. When he starts investigating a new crime, his life starts to unravel. The crime? Somebody has a time machine, and they're sending people into the past to escape the unpleasant present. This story was later expanded into The Time Hoppers.