Field Trip

Kial has come from the year 8000 to study his ancestors—but the sight of a young couple kissing strikes him as “disgusting.” Then a stranger in his train coach admits he is a telepath, an atavist, and possibly a threat to them both.

In Gene Hunter’s science-fiction story, two time travelers from a distant future ride invisibly among twentieth-century passengers, bound by laws meant to keep history—and their own era—from changing. Kial is here to study psychology, but Broyk’s forbidden candor and the couple’s intimacy stir feelings Kial has been taught to regard as obsolete. One careless exchange may leave the travelers stranded in this “barbarous age”; their next choice could break a still more dangerous rule. What, exactly, is Kial beginning to envy?

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