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Time Travel Inc.

by Robert F. Young
Super-Science Fiction, February 1958

I found this in one of three old sf magazines that I traded for at Denver’s own West Side Books. (Thank you, Lois.) Both the title and the table-of-contents blurb (They wanted to witness the Crucifixion) foreshadow Moorcock’s “Behold the Man,” although the story is not as vivid. —Michael Main

Oh . . . The Crucifixion. You want to witness it, of course—

An angry man with tubes connected to his temples grasps two fistfuls of other
tubes and wires.

Science Fiction
Definite Time Travel

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Novelette

Passage to Gomorrah

by Robert F. Young
Fantastic January 1959

In a future of FTL spaceships, time storms between the stars, and male-only space explorers, young Berenice had run away to the stars as a sex worker. But when she inexplicably becomes pregnant, the powers-that-be book passage for her on Captain Cross’s ship to the exhile planet called Gomorrah. —Michael Main

“But wouldn’t our objective reality be affected?”

He nodded. “It could be,” he said, “since, in the absence of any real passage of time, it would be in temporal ratio to our involvement in our pasts, which might force it into a different time plane altogether.”

Pen-and-ink drawing of a man in a whirlwind falling toward a nude woman with
outstretched arms.

Science Fiction
Definite Time Travel

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Short Story

Production Problem

by Robert F. Young
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1959

Bridgemaker has never had any trouble making money, but it’s a different vocation that he longs for, a vocation that was apparently widespread in the past, so he sends men from Timesearch, Inc., to find the secret that had to exist in the past.

Our field men have explored the Pre-Technological Age, the First Technological Age, and the early years of our own age; but even though they witnessed some of the ancient technicians at work, they never caught a glimpse of the machine.

Science Fiction
Definite Time Travel

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Short Story

The Dandelion Girl

by Robert F. Young
Saturday Evening Post, 1 April 1961

Undetermined
Undetermined Time Travel

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Short Story

The Second Philadelphia Experiment

by Robert F. Young
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1964

No, the first Philadelphia experiment wasn’t the one you’re thinking of. Instead, it was Ben Franklin’s first kite-flying escapade. Bet you didn't know he had a second kite that produced a message that Franklin struggled to interpret.

—to the Dick the Disk Show, brought to you by W-D-U.

Science Fiction
Definite Time Travel

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Short Story

When Time Was New

by Robert F. Young
in If, December 1964

At the behest of a paleontological society, adventurer Howard Carpenter, heads back to the Age of Dinosaurs to scope out an anachronistic fossil, where among other things, he runs into two terrified kids from Mars and a gang of Martian kidnappers.

79,061,889 years from now, this territory would be part of the state of Montana. 79,062,156 years from now, a group of paleontologists digging somewhere in the vastly changed terrain would unearth the fossil of a modern man who had died 79,062,156 years before his disinterment—Would the fossil turn out to be his own?