Vintage Season is a science fiction novella by American authors Catherine L. Moore and Henry Kuttner, published under the joint pseudonym "Lawrence O'Donnell" in September, 1946.
The mystery deepens with remarks she lets slip, with the unspectacular but advanced technology of things she has in her room—including a recorded "symphonia" that engages all the senses with imagery of historical disasters—and with the appearance of the would-be buyers, a couple from the same country, who plant a "subsonic" in the house intended to drive the residents out.
Hearing Kleph sing "Come hider, love, to me"[6] from the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Oliver realizes that she and her friends are time travelers from the future.
[3][7] It has been called "great",[8] "perhaps the ultimate expression of Catherine L. Moore's art",[3] "her masterpiece",[5][9] "hauntingly memorable",[4] "classic"[10] and "one of the most brilliant stories in modern science fiction.
[5] Robert Silverberg wrote a story about the aftermath, "In Another Country",[11] which was published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989 and reprinted with Vintage Season as a Tor Double in 1990.
The 1992 American film Timescape, also titled Grand Tour: Disaster in Time, was loosely based on Vintage Season,[13] though with a happy ending substituted for the somber conclusion of Moore's original.