The Missing Ocean
- by Howard Wandrei
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Time Phenomena
- English
- debut with alternate byline.
“The Missing Ocean” , as by H. W. Guernsey, Unknown, May 1939.
Strangers (including Captain Amandus Rudolf of the James A. Waltham) with odd clothes, odd artifacts, and hair! are showing up in AD 4939.
—Michael Main
But this is the seventeenth time one of these birds has turned up. What’s the secret?
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: presumed home time of the story
- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: destination time: circa AD 4939
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Rifts: “The doctor mentioned stray ‘fissures in time,’ which might catapult a man, when he walked into one as had Amandus, for varying distances into the future or the past.”
- Themes
- Stuck in Time: Amandus cannot return to his time.
- What Year Is It?: —“This is what?” —“4939,” Cutten answered
- Groupings
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- debut with alternate byline.
“The Missing Ocean” , as by H. W. Guernsey, Unknown, May 1939. - first canonical byline.
“The Missing Ocean” by Howard Wandrei, in [enm]Time Burial: The Collected Fantasy Tales of Howard Wandrei[/em], vol. 1 (Fedorgan & Bremer, July 2017).