That Mysterious Bomb Raid

by Bob Tucker

Release: July 1942
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Sitting around Hinkle’s, the narrator tells the story of how he, along with Hinkle and the local university scientist, took a bomb back in time in an attempt to nip World War II in the bud.

Well, sir, that little machine traveled so fast that before we could stop it we found ourselves in the last century. Somewhere in the 1890s. We were going to drop our oil drip there but I happened to remember that my grandfather was spending his honeymoon in Tokyo sometime during that decade—

DEBUT

“That Mysterious Bomb Raid,” Astounding, July 1942.

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ITTDB Work #1356: by Bob Tucker
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Curator: Michael Main
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