The Tooth
- by Neil Moran
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Debatable Time Travel
- English
- “The Tooth” by Neil Moran , Astounding Stories, April 1934.
Old Dr. Radley knows that Lois Lane loves their dentist, Bob Garney, so he hatches a plan that will throw the potential loverbirds together in prehistoric times, hoping to jolt Bob into romantic action. Oh—and something about breaking the spell of Radley’s evil, abscessed tooth seems to be behind it all.
—Michael Main
That evening, as he and Lois Lane stepped into the waiting room, Garney came out of his office and looked in.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Stone Age (3.4 Ma to 3000 BC: Paleo/Epipaleo/Meso/Neo/Chalcolithic): “A village. A village that existed in a land long ago.”
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: presumed home time of the story
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Hypnosis, Mental Powers, Potions, and Drug-Induced Travel: “You feel drowsy, don’t you? Your mind is a blank.” We’ve marked the time travel as debatable because even Radley “was not absolutely sure himself just what had happened.”
- Fictional Tags
- Lois Lane: No, she's not that Lois, at least not that we know of. But we decided to tag her anyway, just in case.
- Groupings
Variants
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- “The Tooth” by Neil Moran , Astounding Stories, April 1934.