Silver Dome

by Harl Vincent

Release: August 1930
Format: Novelette
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Time Phenomena
Original Language: English

In an underground city, Queen Phaestra uses a past-viewing machine of vague nature to show the destruction of Atlantis to two good-hearted men. But Atlantis itself is not visited, and there are no time phenomena apart from the viewing.

— Michael Main

This is accomplished by means of extremely complex vibrations penetrating earth, metals, buildings, space itself, and returning to our viewing and sound reproducing spheres to reveal the desired past or present occurrences at the point at which the rays of vibrations are directed.

DEBUT

“Silver Dome,” in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930.

VARIANTS

3 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1930 to 1939: presumed time period
Unspecified Past Year: the time of Atlantis

Themes

Viewing the Past: The mechanism of viewing Atlantis is described only in vague terms.

Fictional Tags

Atlantis
Mad Scientists: Professor Leland
Utopian World: Theros

Groupings

Astounding · Analog (periodical): August 1930