Time Haven
- by Howard Wandrei
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Time Phenomena
- English
- “Time Haven,” as by Howard W. Graham, Ph.D., Astounding Stories, September 1934.
Vincent Merryfield, the “alien” of his family for the sin of being a scientist, builds a time machine that takes him to the year 2443 where the rest of his family has died out and he is the sole owner of everything within sight of his seven-mile-high tower in Manhattan—but how did everyone know he was coming? Sadly, it may be that that the time travel was not entirely what it appeared to be.
—Michael Main
Of course! It has always been known that you would ‘appear’ sooner or later.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: home time of the story: 1936
- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: destination time: 2443
- Timeline Models
- Themes
- Long Sleep, Cryogenics, Etc.: Miss Hollis insists that Vincent was merely in a “cataleptiform condintion” for 500 years, under continual observation.
- Stuck in Time: Vincent cannot return to his time.
- What Year Is It?: “What year is this?”
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Time Haven,” as by Howard W. Graham, Ph.D., Astounding Stories, September 1934.
- canonical byline.
“Time Haven” by Howard Wandrei, in The Eerie Mr. Murphy: The Collected Fantasy Tales of Howard Wandrei, vol. 2 (Fedogan & Bremer, 2003).
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Howard Wandrei as by Howard W. Graham, Ph.D.