A Traveler in Time
by August Derleth
Derleth’s newspaper reporter Tex Harrigan had at least one time-travel encounter: a man
named Vanderkamp who saw an atomic war thirty years in the future and then considered
escaping back to 1650 New Amsterdam. But 1650 has a shrewish woman who reminds him a bit
too much of his own shrewish sister, so that’s obviously not an ideal destination. The
machine also has a curious effect on aging that Tex never did figure out (and neither did
this reader).
It looked like a top. The first thing I thought of was Brick Bradford, and before I could
catch myself, I’d asked, “Is that pure Brick Bradford?”
He didn’t turn a hair. “Not by a long shot,” he answered. “H. G. Wells was there first. I owe it to Wells.”
He didn’t turn a hair. “Not by a long shot,” he answered. “H. G. Wells was there first. I owe it to Wells.”
“A Traveler in Time” by August Derleth, in Orbit,
March 1953.