Castaways of the Year 2000

by W. W. Cook

Release: October 1912 to February 1913
Format: Novel
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

In this sequel to 1903’s A Round Trip to the Year 2000; or a Flight Through Time, Lumley has returned to his own time and is held responsible for Kelpie’s disappearance at which point he returns to the future and adventures ensue.

I wish that today’s story magazines sported such alluring artwork. Not only that, but in October of 1912, for just 30¢ you could have bought this issue of The Argosy as well as the first-ever story of Tarzan of the Apes in Argosy’s sister magazine, The All-Story. And today, instead, we get endless reality TV, including Castaway 2000.

Put me out of my misery if I ever start sounding curmudgeonly.

— Michael Main

Dr. Alonzo Kelpie, author of “Time and Space and Their Limitations,” was a hunchback. Although a small man physically, intellectually he was a giant. To have him emerge thus unexpectedly through the dissolving mists of their environment was a seven-day wonder to Lumley, Kinch, McWilliams, Mortimer, and Ripley.

DEBUT

Castaways of the Year 2000, serialized in Argosy, October 1912 to February 1913.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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Groupings

Argosy · All-Story (periodical)

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY: We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.