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The Plaything on the Tesseract Wall

Larry Hodges

First published September 2018
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Probability Zero

A child-creature in a fourth-dimensional world is bored and decides to "play" with a child in a third-dimensional world not realizing that it is hurting the child in the third-dimensional world. Then the same things happen to it, and the alien child realizes that it is being observed by <i>something</i>, and "it" is always watching...

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 2018 Cover Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September-October 2018 Dell Magazines MAGAZINE 120