Short Story
The Cube Root of Conquest
- by Rog Phillips
- in Amazing, October 1948
Hute Hitle, a dictator on the war-torn planet of Amba, plans to bring down an apocalypse and then travel to the future where he can fulfil his insatiable ambitions to be accepted as the one Leader.
The story is a crudely written Hitler fantasy, but it does have the interesting idea that travel through time can best be accomplished by stepping sideways into a parallel universe, traveling through time in that other universe, and then stepping back. Fortunately Amba, the scientist who discovered this version of time travel, knows more about the workings of the mechanism than Hitle ever will.
The story is a crudely written Hitler fantasy, but it does have the interesting idea that travel through time can best be accomplished by stepping sideways into a parallel universe, traveling through time in that other universe, and then stepping back. Fortunately Amba, the scientist who discovered this version of time travel, knows more about the workings of the mechanism than Hitle ever will.
A time machine in one of these other universes could carry me to any point in the future without danger it might have encountered in this one, such as an atom bomb dropped on the space it would have been in here?
