Only Farley himself knows his intent with this story, but to me it seems as if he were trying
to make amends for his sexist tales of bygone pulp days by writing a story of football player
cum physics student Milton Collett and his beautiful—but not airheaded—gal, Carolyn Van
Horn, who together take a one-way trip to a future in which roles of men and women have been
reversed. For me, Farley didn’t quite pull it off.
His intern stared at him with awed respect. A man—able to read!
DEBUT
“Stranded in Time,” in The Omnibus of Time (Fantasy Publishing,
1950).
VARIANTS
Debut. “Stranded in Time,” in The Omnibus of Time (Fantasy Publishing, 1950).
His intern stared at him with awed respect. A man—able to read!
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