Two stories, millennia apart, connected by office worker Paul Feron in a 20th-century New York heatwave and Roman gladiator Ferronius in a heatwave of his own. Time travel? Or a dream?
Michael Main
A dazzling streak of lightning, a mighty clap of thunder, and Paul Feron, suddenly awakened, sprang to his feet with white face and staring eyes. What had happened? God, what had happened?

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  1. “The Heat Wave,” as by Allen Glasser, in Munsey’s Magazine, April 1929.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Marion Ryan [uncredited]
    Robert Ord [uncredited]
    Allen Glasser (possible plagiarism)
  3. “Across the Ages” by Marion Ryan and Robert Ord, in Amazing, Aug/Sep 1933.
  4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Marion Ryan

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  1. Variant—Bleiler indicates that the reprint titled “Across the Ages” under the byline of Allen Glasser was “a blatant word-for-word plagiarism of the earlier story and that “Glasser was responsible for at least one more plagiarism” and also “stole plot from Mort Weisinger” for another story. Our comparison of the original with the reprint found no differences.