An Adventure in Futurity
Conrad Elkins, a scientist from AD 15,000 who hopes to find a solution to the
problem of too many male babies in his time, strikes up a friendship with Hugh in
present-day New York City, eventually inviting Hugh to return with him to a future of
infinite leisure where Venusian slaves with Martian overseers outnumber humans
five-to-one.
And do you ever think that present-day New York will some time be as fragmentary and
fabulous as Troy or Zimbabwe? That archaeologists may delve in its ruins, beneath the
sevenfold increment of later cities, and find a few rusting mechanisms of disputed use,
and potteries of doubtful date, and inscriptions which no one can decipher?