Short Story
David Wright O’Brien
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Short Story
The Man Who Changed History
- by David Wright O’Brien
- in Amazing, February 1942
Reggie Vliet and Sandra Vanderveer want to marry, but Colonel Vanderveer refuses his permission on the basis that Reggie’s family is not of the same standing as the long-established Vanderveers. So Reggie sets out to take down the Vanderveers in the times of Waterloo and the Civil War.
O’Brien was a prolific author who died in action during World War II at age 26.
O’Brien was a prolific author who died in action during World War II at age 26.
“Supposing,” he wondered, “that those two old ducks in the pictures on the walls hadn’t been famous?”
Short Story
Time on Your Hands
- by David Wright O’Brien
- in Fantasic Adventures, April 1944
Although I enjoyed the first Reggie Vliet story (“The Man Who Changed History’), this second story didn’t grab me, even though Reggie does inherit the time-travel watch and travels to see Antony and Cleopatra, Caesar, the sacking of Rome, and Columbus.
It does make me reflective to know that this story was written shortly before O’Brien’s death in a World War II bomber over Europe.
It does make me reflective to know that this story was written shortly before O’Brien’s death in a World War II bomber over Europe.
