When the revolution finally comes, the dictatorial leader Hradzka escapes to the past in a time machine, but he overshoots his target and ends up in the first decade after the discovery of atomic power.
“The ‘time-machine’,” Zarvas Pol replied. “If he’s managed to get it finished, the Great Mind only knows where he may be, now. Or when.”

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  1. “Flight from Tomorrow” by H. Beam Piper, in Future Science Fiction, September/October 1950.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by H. Beam Piper