The professor’s handsome assistant, Stephen Darville, is in love with the professor’s
beautiful daughter and wants to spend every waking moment with her, but duty calls—duty to
build a time machine, of course, in which the youthful assistant can go ten years into the
future to return with the more polished time machines that will be produced by the
professor’s very own technicians over the next ten years.
The technicians would “save” themselves ten years of labor and the new sweeping
highway in the future and the past would be open to mankind within the life of its
discoverer.
DEBUT
“Forever Is Not So Long,” Astounding,May
1942.
VARIANTS
Debut. “Forever Is Not So Long,” Astounding,May 1942.
The technicians would “save” themselves ten years of labor and the new sweeping
highway in the future and the past would be open to mankind within the life of its
discoverer.
1 English variant