Trapped in Eternity
- by Ray Cummings
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Trapped in Eternity” by Ray Cummings, Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1936.
Alan Blair and his beautiful fiancée Dora are brought to the future by the lecherous Sah Groat who cures her blindness and proposes that she be his mate to start a new race.
—Michael Main
Time traveling! And here, in this same space that now held Dora’s little bungalow and garden, Sah Groat’s home existed in the year 2536.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: Dora and Alan’s time: 1936
- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: Groat’s time: AD 2536
- End of the Earth: “We are going forward—very far! Where we can be alone! [. . .] The Earth was gone!”
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Habitats: “A cubical thing ten feet high, fifteen feet square [. . .]. Small windows of a luminous transparency. A solid door. It had an interior light.”
- Themes
- Blur of Days and Nights During Travel: “Night and day were so swiftly suceeding each other that they blended into a luminous grey monochrome landscape, queerly lacking in detail so that as I gazed at anyt one spot only grey blurred blankness seemed there.”
- Fictional Tags
- Robots, Androids, and Cyborgs: Surprise!
- Groupings
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- “Trapped in Eternity” by Ray Cummings, Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1936.