The End of Time
- by Wallace West
- Novelette
- Adults
- Time Phenomena
- English
- “The End of Time” by Wallace West, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1933.
It would seem that the only people on Earth whose perception of time hasn’t ground to a stop are the three—Dr. Manthis, his golden-haired daughter June, and radio engineer Jack Baron—who took Manthis’s hashish injection. But how are they to bring the rest of humanity back to speed?
—Michael Main
Think a minute. If the watch seems running double speed that would indicate that your perception of its movements had slowed down fifty per cent.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: presumed
- Themes
- Altered Metabolic Rates: Hard to tell whether everyone has become Sleeping Beauties or their metabolic rates have just slowed, but we’re going with slowed metabolic rates—or possibly just time-perception rates.
- Groupings
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- “The End of Time” by Wallace West, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1933.