Wanderer of Infinity
- by Harl Vincent
- Novelette
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Time Phenomena
- English
- “Wanderer of Infinity” by Harl Vincent, in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1933.
When Joan Carmody sends a plea to her ex-boyfriend Bert Redmond, he barrels from Indiana to upstate New York in a trice, only to see Joan and her borderline-mad brother Tom kidnapped by metal monsters from another dimension. Fortunately, a mourning, immortal wanderer through time and space also sees the abduction and fills in Bert with all the salient details and some unsalient ones, too.
—Michael Main
“We are here only as onlookers,” the Wanderer explained sadly, “and can have no material existence here. We can not enter this plane, for there is no gateway. Would that there were.”
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: presumed
- Unspecified Past Year: in the wanderer’s past
- Timeline Models
- Noniteracting Traveler: While in the past, Bert and the Wanderer may only observe.
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Spheres, Eggs, et al.: They travel in a time sphere, but only to observe the wanderer’s past.
- Themes
- Differing Time Rates: While Bert is with the Wanderer, time does not pass for Joan and Tom.
- Long Life: the wanderer
- Viewing the Past
- Fictional Tags
- Mad Scientists: Tom Carmody, more or less
- Parallel Universes or Dimensions
- Robots, Androids, and Cyborgs: the metal monsters
- Groupings
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- “Wanderer of Infinity” by Harl Vincent, in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1933.