When Shelvin accidently bumps that contraption in the basement of his rented house, he and his family and the whole house are thrown half a million years into the future.
—Michael Main
“You’re just not used to our kind of weather," a wheezy voice said. “Climactic conditions change quite a bit in a half million years.”

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  1. Guest in the House by Frank Belknap Long, in Astounding Science Fiction, March 1946.
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  2. alternative title.A Guest in the House by Frank Belknap Long, in Strange Ports of Call, edited by August Derleth (Pellegrini and Cudahy, April 1946).
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  1. Italian.
    Un ospite in casa [A guest in house] by Frank Belknap Long, in Urania #1250, 5 February 1995.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Frank Belknap Long
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Giuliano Acunzoli