The Time Control
- by Philip Jacques Bartel
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Debatable Time Travel
- English
- “Time Control” by Philip Jacques Bartel, in Amazing, February 1935.
Two Russians (Khalin and Mikhailloff) and an American engineer (Earl Lyons) find a way to step outside of time, view the future from outside their bodies, then step back into time soon that they left, thereby preventing bad things such as Mikhailloff’s murder by the counter-revolutionaries. Also, Earl finds a Russian bride.
—Michael Main
Of all five senses, sight alone remained to them. They could see as before, but with unusual clearness.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: presumed time period
- Timeline Models
- Foretold or Seen Future Is Not Set in Stone
- Noniteracting Traveler: The travelers can see what's happening in the future, but not interact with it until they return to their departure time and live through the future that theyve seen.
- Unexplained Timeline Model
- Viewing the Future
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Incorporeal Traveler: The travelers’ bodies remain behind. Only an ability to see and think remain.
- Invisible Traveler: Those in the future can’t see the travelers.
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Time Control” by Philip Jacques Bartel, in Amazing, February 1935.
Indexer Notes
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- Title—I don’t think time ever stood still.