Midnight at the End of the Universe
by Eric Ian Steele
Wanting to see the end of time, Matheson travels forward in his quaint machine only to be
greeted by the athletic and immortal telepath, Rococzky Saint-Germain, who is somewhat
disdainful of time travelers. Together, they watch the universe collapse.
Even so, he grew nervous each time he left the pod—ever since that encounter with the
Fascist Government of Greater Britannia in the twenty-second century. Not to mention the
alligator population that plagued London after the Great Flood in the twenty-third. That
had caught him completely unawares.
“Midnight at the End of the Universe” by Eric Ian Steele,
in Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time
Machine, edited by J. W. Schnarr (Northern Frights Publishing, September
2010).