Terror Out of Time
- by Jack Williamson
- Novelette
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Terror Out of Time” by Jack Williamson, Astounding, December 1933.
Until I started reading 1930s pulps, I didn’t realize how ubiquitous were the scientist with a beautiful daughter and her adventurous fiancé. This story has Dr. Audrin, his machine (to project the brain of a present-day man forty million years into the future and possibly bring another mind back), his beautiful daughter Eve, and her manly fiancé, Terry Webb. Manly Webb agrees to be the test subject for the machine, much to the dismay of beautiful Eve.
—Michael Main
I must have a subject. And there is a certain—risk. Not great, now, I’m sure. My apparatus is improved. But, in my first trial, my subject was—injured. I’ve been wondering, Mr. Webb, if you—
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: presumed start time
- End of the Earth: “The end of all the life we know. It was forty million years ahead. The sun had gone out!”
- Timeline Models
- Themes
- Invisible Traveler: Gorkon, in Terry’s body
- Mind Travel: via “neuro-induction”
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- “Terror Out of Time” by Jack Williamson, Astounding, December 1933.
- incorrect byline.
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Jack Williamson as by J. Williams