In retrieving objects from the future, Tom Lawton and Bill Richard manage to grab four brothers from 2534, and the brothers promptly take over London, announcing that they intend to make a utopia, but first they must kill half the population.

Scoops was a weekly British publication that lasted about half of 1934. This particular Fearn story was reprinted in the 1997 Fantasy Annual.
based on Frank J. Bleiler
It’s a paradox.

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  1. “Invaders from Time” by John Russell Fearn, in Scoops, 12 May 1934.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by John Russell Fearn