In the first story, Hawkinson receives a manuscript written in the hand of his friend Cannes
and detailing how to build a time machine, which he does in order to send Cannes into the
future to learn how to build a time machine and, thus, send the manuscript back to Hawkinson.
More paradoxes (not to mention Martian plans to blow up the Earth) abound in the two sequels.
Cannes told of his life in that far future year, of his mystification at the
circumstances surrounding the origin of that manuscript, which was used before it was
made and could not hae been made if it hadn’t been previously used. He told us of the
grandfather argument, and also of the time when he was actually and physically in two
different places at one and the same time.
DEBUT
“Paradox,” in Amazing Stories Quarterly,Summer 1929.
VARIANTS
Debut. “Paradox,” in Amazing Stories Quarterly,Summer 1929.