Vintage Season
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"Vintage Season" is a classic time-travel science fiction novelette by C. L. Moore (often credited with Henry Kuttner) renowned for its haunting atmosphere and exploration of tourism to past catastrophes.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
science fiction novelette
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short story ⓘ time travel fiction work ⓘ |
| adaptation | inspired the film Timescape ⓘ |
| author |
C. L. Moore
NERFINISHED
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Henry Kuttner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
aestheticization of disaster
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class and privilege ⓘ ethics of time travel ⓘ fatalism ⓘ tourism to past catastrophes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creditedTo | Lawrence O’Donnell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Oliver Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | David Twohy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationTitle | Timescape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
American science fiction short stories
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time travel short stories ⓘ works originally published in Astounding Science Fiction ⓘ |
| influenced | later works about disaster tourism in time travel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | novelette ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
considered a classic of time travel literature
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frequently anthologized in science fiction collections ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed evocation of sensory atmosphere
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moral ambiguity of time-traveling tourists ⓘ |
| originallyPublishedIn | Astounding Science Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalMedium | pulp magazine ⓘ |
| plotElement |
mysterious tenants renting a house for a perfect season
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visitors from the future observing a disaster ⓘ |
| pseudonymOf | Lawrence O’Donnell is a joint pseudonym of C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationType | magazine fiction ⓘ |
| setting | contemporary American town ⓘ |
| subgenre | time travel fiction ⓘ |
| tone |
haunting
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melancholic ⓘ |
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