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
short story
time travel fiction work
adaptation inspired the film Timescape
author C. L. Moore NERFINISHED
Henry Kuttner NERFINISHED
centralTheme aestheticization of disaster
class and privilege
ethics of time travel
fatalism
tourism to past catastrophes
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
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
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
frequently anthologized in science fiction collections
narrativePerspective first-person narrative
notableFor detailed evocation of sensory atmosphere
moral ambiguity of time-traveling tourists
originallyPublishedIn Astounding Science Fiction NERFINISHED
originalMedium pulp magazine
plotElement mysterious tenants renting a house for a perfect season
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
melancholic

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C. L. Moore hasInfluentialStory Vintage Season
Henry Kuttner notableWork Vintage Season