The Miniature
- by John D. MacDonald
- Short Story
- Science Fiction, Horror
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Miniature,” as by Peter Reed, Super Science Stories, September 1949.
Jedediah Amberson, a economist at Columbia University, steps into the main branch of his bank and finds himself in year 83 of the Gradzinger calendar, where he tries to guess how money has evolved.
—Michael Main
“Why, I walked through your front door.” Jed suddenly frowned. “There was a strange jar as I did so. A dislocation, a feeling of being violently twisted in here.”
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1940 to 1949: Jed’s home time (14 June 1949)
- Unspecified Future Year: year 83 of the Gradzinger calendar
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Portal: Temporal engineers open a portal for Jed to return through.
- Timeslips: Jed steps into the future as he enters the bank.
- Themes
- Groupings
Variants
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- “The Miniature,” as by Peter Reed, Super Science Stories, September 1949.
Indexer Notes
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- Genre—We marked the story as horror because of the HUD.