The man who mastered time

"Quite so," agreed the Chemist. "And, gentlemen, that's not nearly so funny as it sounds. As a matter of fact, it is really not a bad scientific definition. Time and space are a...

It was outwardly a gay little gathering, having dinner in a small private room of the Scientific Club. But underneath the laughter there was a note of tenseness, and two of the...

First I want you all to know, I'm quite safe and well. _Mamita_ dear, please try not to worry about me. Remember, Father we anticipated I might decide it best to send you a mess...

Occasionally, now, some brave effort seemed to be made to build the city on a different scale. There were other types of architecture, always smaller; little sections, newly bui...

When I came to, I was still lying where I had fallen. Striking my head had knocked me out momentarily. I heard voices; some one was kneeling beside me. I opened my eyes, but eve...

"That's all, gentlemen. All of the message itself. The other pages give detailed instructions--data based on Loto's flight and memoranda for the construction of another plane, g...

The proton current had been entirely cut off. The interior of the cabin was solid in appearance once more. The Frazia motors were still droning and the plane hung motionless in...

On the gently undulating floor of a valley, surrounded by three mountains and with the sea rolling up on its beach to the north, lay the Aran city. From an altitude of some thre...

A cordon of police stopped Fahn and his party at the edge of a grove of palms near the beach. A moment more and they were inside. It was dim under the palms; the white sand a la...

George had been standing with his friends beside the pavilion, silently watching the festival reach its height. The bell tolled; the masks and cloaks were discarded. A bevy of n...

Still side by side, George and Dee rode back toward Anglese City. It was further than George had thought; then he realized that the girl had turned into a different road. He sho...

The question brought an idea to George that made his heart race. They _were_ still in the cavern, at a time forty years previous. What was the cavern like then? Suppose its entr...

Loto did not answer; he stared with set face at the crystal mirror, which was turning purple with the deepening shadows of nightfall. The mountains into which the plane had fall...

A month went by in days and weeks of activity throughout the island. To the Scientists it was a time of unparalleled stress and anxiety. The government was in their hands for th...

The palm-dotted island fell silently away. Ahead lay the blue channel; to the right the open sea. To George the flight--the first of any duration he had taken--was exhilarating....

Once again, Toroh's trickery was disclosed. To Fahn, the tactics of the Noths were now understandable. The Noth attack on Anglese City, at which Fahn had hurled all his armed fo...

Once again the plane hung like a shimmering ghost above the towering piles of steel and masonry--New York City at the peak of its civilization. For Azeela and Dee, it had been a...