The Figure

by Edward Grendon

Release: July 1947
Format: Short Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

The narrator, along with his pals Dettner and Lasker, are frantically working on a machine that can bring something back from the future before they’re all called away by the army to work on some cockroach problem.

I enjoy stories with some personal connection to myself (and generally award an extra half star). In this case, the connection is Alfred Tarski, the Polish logician who was the advisor of the advisor of my own academic advisor, David B. Benson.

Lasker is a mathematician. He specializes in symbolic logic and is the only man I know who can really understand Tarski.

DEBUT

“The Figure,” Astounding, July 1947.

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1 English variant

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Cited in Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin ()

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY: We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.

ITTDB Work #1406: by Edward Grendon
Indexer: not yet assigned
Curator: Michael Main
as of 1:42 a.m. MDT, 6 May 2024
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