Monsters of Moyen

by Arthur J. Burks

Release: April 1930
Format: Novelette
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

When the U.S. is attacked with monsterous submarine/aeroplanes by the demagogue Moyen, it's up to Professor Mariel to find a way to save the country, possibly even through the manipulation of time itself!

— Michael Main

In this, I have even been compelled to manipulate in the matter of time! I must not only defeat and annihilate the minions of Moyen, but must work from a mathematical absurdity, so that at the moment of impact that moment itself must become part of the past, sufficiently remote to remove the monsters at such distance from the earth that not even the mighty genius of Moyen can return them!

DEBUT

“Monsters of Moyen,” Astounding Stories of Super-Science, April 1930.

VARIANTS

3 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1970 to 1999: 1985

Time Travel Methods

Time Catapults: Scientific mumbo-jumbo seems to indicate that Moyen’s ships are catapulted into the past.

Themes

Viewing the Past: Maniel’s apparatus can view 36 hours into the past.

Fictional Tags

Future Wars

Groupings

Astounding · Analog (periodical): April 1930

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From somewhere in the northeastern US, 1985 ⋙ to a place far away from Earth, so far in the past that not even Moyen can return them!. Multiple trips. Note: Moyen’s ships are hurled into the past.