Time is the Traitor
"Time Is the Traitor" is a
Synopsis
John Strapp is a
Critical response
The story was selected for
Rich Horton described "Time Is the Traitor" as "glorious" and "madly odd".[3] Fiona Kelleghan considered that John Strapp's name ""suggests both punishment and restraint", observing that Strapp was "tormented by flashbacks" and "compelled to repeat the same actions over and over",[4] while Arthur D. Hlavaty of The New York Review of Science Fiction called Strapp an example of the "union of the artist and the criminal that is often considered Bester's defining theme."[5] Kirkus Reviews judged it to be "more style than substance."[6]
Adaptations
Bester adapted the story for
References
- ^ Von Ruff, Al. "Publication Listing". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ^ "NESFA Core Reading List of Fantasy and Science Fiction". New England Science Fiction Association. October 29, 1997. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- Locus Online. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ISSN 0091-7729. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
- ^ Hlavaty, Arthur D. "Virtual Unrealities by Alfred Bester". Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ^ "Virtual Unrealities". Kirkus Reviews. October 1, 1997. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ^ Column: Summer Screams: CBS Radio Mystery Theater, by Randy Stafford, at Innsmouth Free Press; published June 22, 2012; retrieved June 19, 2018
- SciFi.com; published June 15, 1998; retrieved June 19, 2018