Common Time

This article is about the short story by James Blish. For the musical time signature, see Time signature. For the album, see Commontime (album).

"Common Time"
Short story by James Blish
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
Publication
Published inScience Fiction Quarterly
Publication typePeriodical
Media typePrint (magazine, hardback and paperback)
Publication dateAugust 1953

"Common Time" is a science fiction short story by American writer James Blish. It first appeared in the August 1953 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and has been reprinted several times: in the 1959 short-story collection Galactic Cluster; in The Testament of Andros (1965); in The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973); and in Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories.

The story is considered to be an archetype of symbolism in science fiction.

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