Time Is The Traitor

Time Is The Traitor

"Time Is the Traitor" is a science fiction short story by Alfred Bester originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in September, 1953. It is included in the Bester collections The Dark Side of the Earth (1964), Star Light, Star Bright (1976) and Virtual Unrealities (1997) and has been extensively anthologized. Warner Bros. bought the film rights to the story in 1998. The movie is "In-Development" with producers Matthew McConaughey and Denise Di Novi.

It is the story of John Strapp, the world's most powerful man, who is obsessed with finding a girl identical to his long-dead love, Sima Morgan.

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