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The Time Entity
- by Otto Binder
- Astounding, October 1936
John Dakin considers paradoxes as he communicates by radio with his future descendant.
Eando Binder
pseudonym of Otto Binder, sometimes with brothers Earl and/or Jack
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The Time Capsule
- by Otto Binder
- in Science Fiction Plus, March 1953
I was surprised when I ran across the first issue of Science Fiction Plus (Mar 1953) and saw Hugo Gernsback, Editor, staring back at me from the top-right corner of the cover. Somehow I assumed that Wonder Stories was his last foray into what he called scientifiction, or even that he’d died when that magazine became Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1936. But, no, here he was again, albeit for only seven issues (Mar-Dec 1953) and with Sam Moskowitz behind the scenes.
That first issue had this Otto Binder story in which a farmer takes two archaeologists, Stoddard and Jackson, to a time capsule that’s so unusual it couldn’t possibly have been buried by any known civilization. They take it to the Archeological Institute where their boss instructs them to clean up the outside apparently believing that they’ll stop once it’s clean.
That first issue had this Otto Binder story in which a farmer takes two archaeologists, Stoddard and Jackson, to a time capsule that’s so unusual it couldn’t possibly have been buried by any known civilization. They take it to the Archeological Institute where their boss instructs them to clean up the outside apparently believing that they’ll stop once it’s clean.
That thing has been buried for untold centuries perhaps. Millions of days. What would one more day matter? All right, go ahead, you two eager-beavers. But you’re getting the dirty work, scraping off that mold.
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