Stephen’s rich inventor uncle sends him on a trip to the moon in an antigravity capsule
without realizing that a side-effect also sends the capsule back to when the moon was young,
green, and populated by the evil Eternal Ones and the last of the Mothers.
Time was a fourth dimension, he had said. An extension as real as the three of what we
call space, and not completely distinguishable from them. A direction in which motion
would carry one into the past, or into the future.
DEBUT
“The Moon Era,” in Wonder Stories,February 1932.
VARIANTS
Debut. “The Moon Era,” in Wonder Stories,February 1932.
Time was a fourth dimension, he had said. An extension as real as the three of what we
call space, and not completely distinguishable from them. A direction in which motion
would carry one into the past, or into the future.
1 English variant