Although I enjoyed the first Reggie Vliet story (“The Man Who Changed History’), this second story didn’t grab me, even though Reggie does inherit the time-travel watch and travels to see Antony and Cleopatra, Caesar, the sacking of Rome, and Columbus.

It does make me reflective to know that this story was written shortly before O’Brien’s death in a World War II bomber over Europe.
He, Reggie Vliet, was again actually living in the past. He could enjoy it, relish it, admire it, and—change it. That was why he was here. To scramble the past, knock it off its customary track, blast it out of its timeworn groove.

Variants

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  1. “Time on Your Hands” by David Wright O’Brien, in Fantasic Adventures, April 1944.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by David Wright O’Brien