In the first novella (“The Fifth-Dimension Catapult”), physicist Tommy Reames and mechanic Smithers must rebuild the broken machinery that’s catapulted Professor Denham and his beautiful daughter into a parallel dimension of vicious jungle people, strange life forms, and a beautiful golden city. And gadzooks! In the second novella (“The Fifth-Dimension Tube”), the vicious fifth-dimensioners invade Earth! But despite the suggestive titles and citations of both stories in Nahin’s Time Machine, the stories involve only handwaving about time and space dimensions, minor enough that we don’t even count it as a time phenomenon.
—based on Frank J. Bleiler
Because the article on dominant coordinates had appeared in the Journal of Physics and had dealt with a state of things in which the normal coordinates of everyday existence were assumed to have changed their functions; when the coordinates of time, the vertical, the horizontal and the lateral changed places and a man went east to go up and west to go “down” and ran his streat-numbers in a fourth dimension.

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  1. Tommy Reames in the Fifth Dimension, 2 stories by Murray Leinster, 2 stories, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1931 and January 1933.
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  2. “The Fifth-Dimension Catapult” by Murray Leinster, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1931.
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  3. “The Fifth-Dimension Tube” by Murray Leinster, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1933.
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