Worlds to Barter
- by John Wyndham
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Worlds to Barter,” as by John B. Harris, in Wonder Stories, May 1931.
In Wyndham’s first published story, Jon Lestrange (the distant descendant of the world’s foremost inventor) comes back to the moment of his ancestor’s greatest invention with a story of how his own time was invaded by the people of the 5022nd century, demanding to change temporal places with the people of Lestrange’s time.
It is a difficult situation, but I hope I shall convince you. Very few men can have had the chance of convincing their great-great-great grandfathers of anything. I am now an anachronism. You see, I was born in the year A.D. 2108,—or should it be, I shall be born in 2108?—and I am—or will be—a refugee from the twenty-second century. I assure you that you will be married shortly, but I can’t remember when—I think I told you I was bad at dates.
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- “Worlds to Barter,” as by John B. Harris, in Wonder Stories, May 1931.
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