Short Story
The Long Night
- by Charles Willard Diffin
- Astounding Stories, May 1934
Garry Coyne devises a way to move into the future via suspended animation, which (as we all know) is not time travel, but once he arrives in the future to fight throwback hominids and take shelter with a small band of normal men, he does have a moment where he slides back to the present for a brief communication with his trusted friend and a realization about the nature of time. —Michael Main
Past, present, future—all one. And we, moving along the dimension called time, intersect them. I can’t grasp it. But I can’t deny it. If only there were proof—
